#为什么 the fox spirit in "Chatting with Zai Zhiyi" always likes to be poor and tried and failed #
Let's first look at the life of Pu Songling, the author of "Liaozhai Zhiyi":
"April 16, 1640 (June 5, 1640)
When Pu Songling was 19 years old, he took the county government examination, and won the first place in the county, government, and provincial examinations, and was praised by the Shandong Xuezheng Shi Yanzhang, "famous through the life of all generations".
In the fourteenth year of Shunzhi (1657), he married Liu Guoding's daughter.
In the fifteenth year of Shunzhi (1658), he first took the tongsheng examination and entered the school with the first place in the county, prefecture and province, and was known as the Shandong Xuezheng ShiYanzhang.
In the seventeenth year of Shunzhi (1660), he failed to pass the township examination.
In the first year of the Kangxi Dynasty (1662), the eldest son, Pu Zhen, was born. However, he was extremely unsuccessful in the later examination field, although he was full of practical learning, he repeatedly failed in the township examination, and was supplemented as a student at the age of 46, and was supplemented as a gongsheng at the age of 72. On weekdays, in addition to the meager agricultural products, he makes a living by teaching and staff.
In the second year of the Kangxi Dynasty (1663), he failed to pass the township examination.
In the third year of the Kangxi Dynasty (1664), he was invited to study at Li Yaochen's house. Zhang Duqing has two poems, "He Liu Xian Yun", which satirizes Pu Songling's story of gods and monsters.
In the ninth year of the Kangxi Dynasty (1670), in August, he was hired by Sun Hui, a friend of Tongyi in Baoyingzhi County, Jiangsu Province, and traveled south to be the curtain.
Kangxi Decade (1671), spring and summer in Baoying, Gaoyou. Autumn resignation curtain returns.
In the eleventh year of the Kangxi Dynasty (1672), in April, he accompanied Gao Heng and Tang Menglai to Laoshan. Qiu Yingxiang test Pu Songling did not pass.
In the fourteenth year of the Kangxi Dynasty (1675), he failed to pass the township examination.
Pu Songling composed a preliminary collection of fox ghost novels in the eighteenth year of the Kangxi Dynasty (1679) and was named "Liaozhai Zhiyi". Gao Heng wrote the preface. “①
Most of the authors who write the articles incorporate part of their own experiences into the book. Young and famous, and then many times failed the exam, the depression in his heart can be imagined, so he wrote a chat to express his chest. Using the style of Tang legendary novels, through the way of talking about foxes and ghosts, he criticized the society and politics of that time. It sounds like a legend, but it is actually a reflection of the real society at that time.
Seeing a lot of social darkness and a lot of political cruelty, I wanted to have a dash in the book. This is a kind of spiritually obscene method of comfort, just like the current people online love and games, some life is not satisfactory, can swim freely in the virtual world of the game and the sea of online love, not afraid of other people's evil words, only their own joy is incomparable.
Moreover, people have the spirit of the spirit, the students read more on weekdays, the imagination is naturally rich, when frustrated and love to drink, the spirit is not very good, so it is easy to produce fantasies and auditory hallucinations, easy to get sick, in the words of the elderly, it is easy to be invaded by evil qi.
The story in "Chatting with Zai Zhiyi" is wonderful, and in the middle of the text, we can learn a lot, such as love, such as loyalty, such as friendship, etc. Most of them are a kind of irony and criticism of the society at that time, and more or they are advising people to do more good things in order to live happily and steadily.
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(1): The data comes from Baidu Encyclopedia