One,
In other words, Yangxin County has a father and son. They opened a roadside shop to accommodate pedestrians. On this day, just after sunset, four strong men came to Xishan to stay.
However, the old man's room is full. Although there are vacant rooms now, the four people are afraid that the guests will not be satisfied, so they will find another place to live. Presumably, these four people have nowhere to go, and they are tired of traveling and don't want to move again, so they ask the old man to allow them to stay.
The old man had no choice but to tell them that his daughter-in-law had just died in a hut, and his son had gone to buy a coffin and had not come back. If the guests don't mind, they can spend the night.
Hearing this, the four guests thought, will four men still be afraid of a female corpse? Immediately let the old man lead into this temporary "morgue".
Four people entered the room, only to find a dim candle on the table, a curtain behind the table and a body covered with a paper quilt. There happened to be a Datong store in the back. Four people were very tired after running all the way, and soon they lay down and snored.
Suddenly, a businessman heard the sound of _ _ _ _ _ _, and he saw the curtains in the outer room open sleepily. The man suddenly fell asleep and got a chill. It turned out that the woman corpse lifted the quilt and sat up by herself! I saw this woman corpse "with pale gold face and raw silk forehead", and she began to move towards Datong!
The woman corpse walked to the front of the store, leaned over and blew three breaths at the sleeping person in turn. The only person who didn't sleep worried that the female corpse would blow itself up, so he buried himself in the quilt and waited quietly. Sure enough, the woman corpse also blew three breaths at him through the quilt.
The man waited for a long time and didn't hear anything, but when he lifted the quilt and stole a look, the female body lay back. He immediately kicked the three people next to him, and none of them moved. However, the woman corpse seemed to hear the movement and sat up again. The guest immediately held her breath, and the female corpse really lay down again.
The man wanted to run out at once, but at the beginning, the woman corpse chased out. So, the man ran all the way to the suburbs, but there was a sound of knocking on wooden fish in the distance. It turned out that there was a Taoist in the temple who thought there was a ghost, but he felt that he was not capable enough and refused to rescue him.
Here, people and ghosts run back and forth around a big poplar tree. Suddenly, the woman corpse stretched out her arms across the tree to catch the living, and the man was shocked. The female corpse failed to catch anyone and stood there with a tree in her arms.
When the Taoist priest heard the silence outside, he went out of the temple to find out and saw the businessman lying on the ground, only to breathe a sigh of relief. The Taoist priest carried him to the temple, and when he came to his senses, he couldn't help being surprised.
After dawn, the Taoist priest saw a female corpse frozen behind the tree and immediately reported it to the county magistrate. The county magistrate personally came to the autopsy, only to find that the woman's finger was deeply stuck in the tree like a steel hook, and several people pulled it out together.
The magistrate ordered the magistrate to inquire in the old people's house, but the woman's body disappeared and the three guests on the shop died. The old man went to the temple to carry the woman's body back, but the guests who had survived burst into tears. He said to the county magistrate, "The four of us came out together. Now that I am going back alone, how can I make the villagers believe me? "
Finally, the county magistrate wrote a confirmation letter to the businessman and gave him a few taels of silver to send him away. This bizarre and horrible story of corpse change ended here.
Second,
Strange Tales from a Lonely Studio not only tells the story of strange ghosts, but also gives the world a deep thinking and vigilance, satirizes and reviles the world.
But some people say that "corpse change" is the least connotation, only terror. Is that so? I think, "Corpse Change" at least clarifies the following themes.
1. implies that women's lives in feudal times are like dirt.
A woman may have been working hard for this family before her death, and her death will not bring any waves to this family. There are white things at home, and business is booming. How numb and sad.
Sharing a room with a strange man was absolutely forbidden in feudal times, so can you be humiliated after death? The room where she died was "occupied by a pigeon". Is her body a kind of "resistance"?
A curtain and a roll of mats explain a woman's life. Someone moved into her room before her bones were cold, and there will definitely be a new wife lying on her bed in the future. This is the sorrow of this unknown woman corpse, and it is also Pu Songling's pity for women of that era.
2. insinuate that the will to survive in the face of disaster is higher than the friendship of friends.
Every time I see a female corpse sucking Yang, I think that the old demon in Montenegro wants to suck the Supreme Treasure and Tang Priest in a Chinese Odyssey. In this way, the picture of "corpse change" is not so terrible. Besides, do you think about it, is that rich businessman who survived a narrow escape very similar to Tang Priest and his disciples?
In order to prevent the old demon in Montenegro from sucking his yang, the Supreme Treasure and Tang Priest also straightened their faces for the demon to suck. What about this businessman? After he found out that the female corpse was derailed, he didn't remind his friends in the same trade, but ran for his life first. What a cool idea!
Finally, after discovering that his friend died, he cried bitterly, not because his friend died innocently, but because he could not explain himself when he returned to his hometown. How heartless is this?
Satire is a selfish state of mind, which has nothing to do with oneself.
The sound of wooden fish should have been the sound of saving people in distress, but the Taoist priest in the story knew that there was something strange outside, but he refused to rescue them. If it weren't for the fate of the merchants, I'm afraid they would have died long ago.
Then, the sound of wooden fish is also the sound of redemption. The Taoist priest found the fainted businessman and saved his life.
Human nature is so complicated. Once you become a Buddha, you can become a demon. Pu Songling is looking forward to a warm society, not sweeping away the snow in front of your door.
Third,
In fact, Pu Songling didn't say anything in the story of corpse change, but if you understand his painstaking efforts, you have to sigh his pen power.
Pu Songling's works prefer to write about monks and Taoists, which also makes Cao Xueqin learn from them. In the Painted Skin, the rascal master who saved Wang Sheng's life is similar to the monk in A Dream of Red Mansions.
In A Dream of Red Mansions, it is said that "a monk is not a monk and a Taoist is not a Taoist", and we will also find that the image of a Taoist in a Buddhist temple is presented as a corpse. Isn't it interesting?
As a master of classical literature, Pu Songling is a unique existence in the history of China literature. Read through Strange Tales from a Lonely Studio, and you will find that the originator of fantasy literature in the world must be Pu Songling.
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