Jokes should be moderate, excessive will hurt people. Pu Songling clearly pointed this out in his inscription for his friend Wu Muxin's "Treatise on Abstinence", expressing great disgust at the "noisy barking" joke. "Fox Harmony" is a play with ridicule, and it is also a masterpiece of art painstakingly managed by the author.
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The main content of the work is the humorous conversation between the fox lady and the guests. The two "fox codes" she said were exquisite, bizarre, contrived, and vivid, both a joke and a story, and it was pleasing to the eye to read. The author has put a lot of thought into weaving these jokes and stories. This can be seen from the revision of the manuscript. Among the four surviving manuscripts of Liaozhai , " Fox Harmony " is the one that has been more altered. The manuscript before the change did not have the two characters of the Chen brothers, and the section where the fox girl skillfully scolded Er Chen was originally another "fox classic", which was also made fun of Sun Deyan, which was not very exciting, and was later completely erased and changed to the current appearance.
The author is obviously striving for excellence, and refuses to give up until the extreme of harmony. Critic Dan Minglun commented on the words "sharp teeth and sharp teeth, thinking of non-right" after the paragraph of Qiao Chen's scolding. In fact, it is not the fox girl who "thinks of wrong", but the author Pu Songling. According to Zhang Yuan's "Tomb Table of Mr. Liuquan", Pu Songling was a "gentle elder who spoke "not out of his mouth" and could not say "sharp teeth", but his articles were exquisitely conceived and ingenious, and there was a great wind of "eloquent talk and debate" that Zhang Yuan said, thus causing the fox lady's sharp teeth.
However, this fox lady is not only a tool to convey harmony and stories, but also a flesh-and-blood fictional character. Although she only greets guests with her voice, her image is very clear and prominent. The frivolous and kind Sun Mou wanted to see his appearance, and her answer was: "Xianzai grandson!" Want to do a row for Gautama? "It is really harmonious when the words are spoken, and the opening is loud, and a little lady with a sharp heart stands upright from the page. In the future, those funny and humorous talks have shown her witty personality and quick thinking to an extraordinary full and vivid, and her image has been deeply imprinted in the reader's heart. In fact, similar young women can often be seen in life, and the image of fox girls is the strengthening and sublimation of their personality, so it is so vivid, lively and vital.
The first two parts and the last two parts are just to write the ins and outs of the fox girl, and only play an auxiliary role in the whole part, and the author of "Liaozhai", who is accustomed to using fox ghosts to express life and love, is not willing to rush to this, and must be written in a euphemistic and reasonable way, so that these two parts are not only harmonious and harmonious with the main part, but also add charm and enrich the connotation of the work. The former writer wrote that the Wanfu family had little savings, the name of the section was unsuccessful, and they were reported as "rich household servants" (that is, Li Zheng, who became famous and forced to fill in the "Promotion of Weaving"), so they had to flee to Jinan to hide. Writing about her life in such a serious way, on the one hand, has a strong sense of reality and intimacy, creating a practical environment for the fox girl to run, naturally handing over the joke; on the other hand, it reflects the reality of the world at that time, and makes the fox girl run have the meaning of sympathizing with the unfortunate.
The ending is more profound and tortuous, on the way back to Boxing, the two also write that the fox girl went to the family's home, almost out of touch, which actually increased the human touch and life atmosphere; and then wrote the return to the family, so that Wan Fu returned first, "white in the family", as if there was really a fox lady who came with him; at this point, he refused to easily accept the pen, and wrote until the next year to Jinan, the brothers came to pick up, and specially set aside the family in Shaanxi, and only then did they give up and must implement the illusory things and make it rise naturally, naturally and according to Wang Peixun's "Hometown Garden Memoirs" Volume VI, volume VI, Zhu Ziqing in Jinan had a fox friend, "Smell the sound, the heavens and the earth are set, and there are no chisel marks."
He does not see his form", and when he participates in the "Meeting of Literature and Wine", when the participants want to see him, he will change according to the will of the person, old or young, or as a beautiful woman; and someone will see his true form, "The fox knows: 'The world is great, who is willing to show the true form, and wants me to show the true form alone?'" Laugh and go away. "Zhu Ziqing's fox friend has some similarities with the fox lady in "Fox Harmony", and the two are more interesting to watch. It is worth noting that Zhu Ziqing was the famous Jinan scholar Zhu Zhen at that time, who had a written relationship with Pu Songling, and greatly appreciated the book "Liaozhai Zhiyi", not only borrowing and inscriptions, but also providing material for it I don't know when this legend written by Wang Peixun was born, if before Zhu Sui's death, Pu Songling, who was "searching for strange", would not be unaware, and the creation of "Fox Harmony" may be affected by it.
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