"Strange Tales from Liaozhai" is a collection of short stories written by Pu Songling in the Qing Dynasty. The author gave up his career and devoted himself to writing, which lasted for many years and wrote this immortal work.
In this book, the author tells the story of the flower demon fox ghost and expresses his beautiful ideals.
In the war-torn thirties and forties, the chairman of ** in the cave of Yan'an, there was a period of time when he often read this **, and he talked with people in Yan'an cultural circles about his views on "Strange Tales from Liao Zhai" several times.
One evening in May 1939, ** went to "Lu Yi" to see his old friend Xiao San. They talked about some literary and artistic issues together, and also talked about "Strange Tales from Liaozhai".
** Thinks that "Strange Tales from Liaozhai" is a kind of warmth of feudalism. The author Pu Songling opposes forced marriage and opposes ** filthy officials, but he is not against monogamy and multiple wives (concubines), praising women's small feet. advocates free love, which cannot be said explicitly in feudal society, but preaches through ghosts and foxes.
The author writes about love and is very artistic, and the ghost fox can write poetry. Obviously, *** has read Lu Xun's "A Brief History of China".
Pu. He then expressed his opinion on Lu Xun's evaluation of "Liao Zhai": ""Liao Zhai" is actually a social **.
Lu Xun's classification of it as 'Zhiyi**' is a mistake in his statement before he accepted Marxism. ”
** He also praised Pu Songling's writing experience: "Pu Songling pays great attention to investigation and research. He made a large pot of tea, sat in the middle of the crowd at the bazaar, and asked people to tell him the stories of the popular ghost foxes he knew, and then went back to process ......Otherwise, how could he write four hundred or dozens of ghosts and vixens? ”
Eight years later, on the eve of the Yan'an Literary and Art Forum, one morning in late April 1942, literary and artistic workers in Yan'an, He Qifang, Cao Baohua, Yan Wenjing, Yao Shixiao and others were invited to ***.
**In order to prepare for the speech of the Yan'an Literary and Art Forum, he often invited some literary and artistic workers to talk to him.
In that conversation, ** once again discussed "Liao Zhai" with the discussant. * I think that the advantages of "Liao Zhai" are manifold.
He said: ""Strange Tales from Liao Zhai" can be regarded as a historical material of the Qing Dynasty." He cited one of the articles called "Xi Fangping", thinking that "Xi Fangping" has a deep meaning, and it is actually an indictment of the cruel officials and officials in the feudal society who protect each other and harm the people.
Xiao Xie" stills.
He said: "'Liao Zhai' is against Baguwen, and it depicts women boldly looking for men. ”
** Pu Songling's sympathy for the most oppressed women in feudal society was highly admired, and he later annotated an article called "Xiao Xie" in "Liao Zhai":
A good article reflects the demand for the emancipation of individuality, and the relationship between people should be democratic and equal. ”
After the liberation, on April 5, 1959, in a speech at a Supreme Council of State, "Liao Zhai" was mentioned again.
He vividly told one of the stories of "Crazy Night Sitting", about a scholar who was reading at home at night, and a ghost stuck his tongue out of the window to scare him
The scholar also stuck his tongue out and confronted the ghost, and finally the ghost had to walk away.
After telling this story, ** said: "The author tells us in this work, don't be afraid of ghosts, the more afraid you are, the more you can't live, he will run in and eat you." So we have to fight and not be afraid of any threat. ”
At this meeting, ** personally selected some stories from "Liao Zhai" and printed them to the participants. He wants to advocate to the people a spirit of taking the initiative to "fight ghosts."
Inspired by "Strange Tales from Liao Zhai", he later instructed the relevant departments to compile a book "The Story of Not Afraid of Ghosts" from the works of ancient people and ghosts
Soon, ** found He Qifang, director of the Institute of Literature of the Department of Philosophy and Social Sciences of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, and gave them the task of compiling "The Story of Not Afraid of Ghosts".
After the compilation and selection work was basically completed, He Qifang drafted the preface of the book and submitted it to *** for review. On January 4, 1961, He Qifang was summoned to Zhongnanhai.
** To He Qifang: "For specific ghosts, for ghosts one by one, we must analyze them specifically, pay attention to tactics, and pay attention to them." Otherwise, it will not be defeated.
There are examples of this in your books. The "Demon Technique" of "Strange Tales from Liao Zhai", if that prince didn't pay attention to tactically, he might be killed by the demon magic.
and "Song Dingbo's Ghost Hunting". The ghost crossed the river on his back and found that he was heavy, so he deceived him, saying that he was a new ghost, and the new ghost was big and the old ghost was small, so he was heavy.
Later, he learned from the ghost what the ghost was afraid of, so he used that thing to cure it, and he cured the ghost. You can write a few hundred more words and write tactical attention. ”
**Revised three times for the preface to "Tales of Not Afraid of Ghosts". In his revision, he included the following sentence: "Is it true that the more we are afraid of ghosts, the more they like us, show compassion, and do us no harm, and our career will suddenly become smooth, and everything will be prosperous and prosperous, and spring will bloom?" ”
In another place, *** wrote; "Things always change places and transform towards their other under certain conditions. ”
He also wrote: "There are still many demons and monsters in the world, and it will take a certain amount of time to eliminate them, and there are still great difficulties in the country, and the remnants of the devils of the Chinese type are still making trouble, and they need to fight ghosts, and there are still many obstacles to be overcome on the road of great socialist construction, so the publication of this book is all the more necessary." ”
This may be the inspiration of practical significance from "Strange Tales".