Pu Songling was keen on imperial examinations all his life, but he was always frustrated. At the age of 72, he was a tribute student, so he was deeply touched by the irrationality of the imperial examination system. He completed 8 volumes of 49 1 Strange Tales from a Lonely Studio in his life, with about 400,000 words. The content is rich and colorful, and the stories are mostly taken from folklore and anecdotes of unofficial history, personifying and socializing things in the world of flowers, foxes and ghosts, fully expressing the author's love, hate and good ideals. The works inherit and develop the excellent tradition and expression techniques of the legendary literature of strange stories in China literature, with fantastic plot, ups and downs, concise writing and orderly narration, and are regarded as the highest achievement collection of China's ancient short stories. Mr. Lu Xun said in "A Brief History of Chinese Novels" that this book is "the most famous one in the special collection"; Mr. Guo Moruo wrote an inscription for Pu's former residence, praising Pu's book "writing ghosts and writing demons is superior, stabbing greed and stabbing abuse"; Lao She also commented on Pu's "Ghost foxes have personality, which makes them laugh and scold".
After Strange Tales from a Lonely Studio was written, Pu Songling was unable to publish it because of his poor family, and it was not published until 1766 (the thirty-first year of Qing Qianlong). After repeated reprints, there are more than 30 versions at home and abroad. Famous versions include hanger-on Pavilion Edition and Zhu Xuezhai Edition, and nearly 20 countries have published their translations. There are 100 publications of Liaozhai in China, and 160 dramas, movies and TV series with the story of Liaozhai as their content. ?
In addition to Strange Tales from a Lonely Studio, Pu Songling has a large number of poems, plays, folk songs, agricultural and medical works. Collection 13 volume, more than 400 articles; Poetry 6 volumes, 1000; Word 1 volume, 100 Yu Tan; Three plays (textual research)
Nine turn peddlers, Zhong Mei's birthday, make a scene); Folk songs 14 kinds (wall stories, ancient songs, compassionate songs, songs, disasters, harp music, Penglai banquet, Junye tea, poor Chinese words, ugly Junba, fast songs, envious spells, lucky fairy songs, and buxing Yunge), as well as Nongsang Sutra and Nongsang Sutra.
Wu, the author of The Scholars and a famous satirist in Qing Dynasty, spent 14 years in Ganyu County, Guzhou as a teenager (see Chen Ruheng's Biography of Wu for details). During this period, from reading to learning, he contacted all kinds of literati and learned all kinds of inside information such as the rise of the imperial examination and the harm of stereotyped writing, which laid the ideological foundation for his fierce denial of the imperial examination fame and began to form his unruly and arrogant personality characteristics. It can be considered that the creation of The Scholars originated from his life experience in Ganyu. Wu has a lifelong complex for Ganyu.
Young Wu got up with his father Wu Lin and went to Ganyu County. He once wrote a poem and recalled, "I was thirteen years old and lost my mother." Fourteen miles from my father, a thousand miles at sea. A weak father will die and trouble will begin. "According to Ganyu County Records, his father Wu was paid tribute by Kangxi (1686) and served as" Ganyu County Order "at (17 14). Wu's personality, as described in Wen Mu Shan Ju Ji in the Fu of Moving Home, is "keeping children fascinated and helping the poor". It seems that he is a Confucian honest official, happy and peaceful, without fame and fortune, and emphasizes moral integrity. Wu was only 14 years old when he became the Oracle of Ganyu.
Young Wu, who lived in Ganyu since his father, took reading as his main task. He is diligent and diligent in his study and clever in his mind. He soon laid a solid foundation for study. As the saying goes, "You have a good foundation if you study hard" and "You will learn by reading" (Cheng Jinfang's Collection of Mianxingtang contains Biography of Mr. Wenmu), which shows his good endowment and talent. But he never dies studying, but he also browses the local mountains and seas from time to time and attends some local celebrities' parties with his father. Plus, after all, he was born in an official family, and he was infected with the habit of "indulgence", thus developing a dissolute and open-minded attitude, broad-minded and vulgar, which made people feel that he was a talent.
On one occasion, he boarded the high pavilion in Ganyu County, attended the banquet of celebrities in the county, and made a five-tune "Looking at the Sea" in public, which surprised everyone and praised the young student for his quick poetic thinking and broad poetic realm. His poem said: "The mighty sky is boundless, and the tides rise and fall. Peng Yuliu has a long domain and a mirage is used as a balcony. Qilu has no gold mud, while Gankun has jade blossoms. Teenagers are in high spirits, and the high court takes a cup. " He looked up at the magnificent scenery from the high bookshelf, raised his pen, imagined the wonders of rivers entering the sea and mirage, and then exerted his whimsy of looking at Qilu and the world. Finally, he ended up with youthful exuberance, high banquet, great momentum and rich imagination, which showed his praise for Ganyu's sea scenery, high spirits and impassioned praise. This is his earliest extant poem, and it is also the first time that he showed his literary talent and love for sweet rain.
Li Ruzhen, a Taoist named Songshi, was born in Daxing, Zhili (now Beijing). Because his brother Li Yuganlong was transferred to Haizhou in forty-seven years, Li Ruzhen traveled with his brother and lived in Banpu for thirty years. He studied the history of Confucian classics in Banpu, and spent more than 30 years working hard to write a masterpiece "The Edge of Mirror Flowers". This masterpiece is ingenious, with Shan Hai Jing as the introduction, and through the romantic description of overseas fantasy world, it embodies the author's life ideal. To commemorate Li Ruzhen, Banpu Town built a "Li Ruzhen Memorial Hall" in the center of the town for people to pay their respects. The memorial hall is in the form of antique architecture, with a bust of Li Ruzhen in the main hall. The museum displays related cultural relics, various versions of Jing Hua Yuan and the research results of Jing Hua Yuan at home and abroad. On the wall surrounded by bamboo, the words "the moon reflects the sky" are engraved, which reminds people of the scenes and meanings described in the book. After the completion of Li Ruzhen Memorial Hall, many Chinese and foreign scholars and tourists come to visit it every year.
Banpu Town, Guanyun County is located between Lianyungang City and Guanyun County. Historically, [Li Ruzhen Memorial Hall] was once an important distribution center of Huai salt. There are two famous literati, Lin and Xu Guilin, Er Qiao (Qiao Shaoqiao and Qiao Shaofu) and Li Ruzhen, the author of the classic literature "The Garden of Flowers in the Mirror". At the age of 65,438+09, they came to Banpu Town with their younger brother Li, and got married and had children here. At that time, a courtyard near Li Ruzhen's residence was turned into the Li Ruzhen Memorial Hall. After renovation and expansion, it was officially opened to the public in September 1992. The memorial hall is a building in the late Ming dynasty, quiet and elegant, with ancient trees and famous flowers, green grass and moss in the courtyard, which is quite charming when writing a book.
Banpu Town is located in the southeast of the urban area, belonging to Guanyun County, about 10 km away from the urban area. It is one of the famous cultural towns in Jiangsu, and also the birthplace of China's classic "Jing Hua Yuan".