Ji Xiaolan's Notes on Yuewei Caotang and Pu Songling's Strange Tales from a Lonely Studio are both stories about ghost foxes. What's the difference between them?

Different ideological contents.

Image innovation is different.

Different forms of expression.

From the form of expression, China's ancient classical Chinese short stories are mainly divided into two artistic forms: notes and legends.

Yue Wei is a typical note novel, which takes the form of note novel. Notebook novels are characterized by simple plot, short length, simple language and emphasis on reasoning. As a representative of note novels, Yue Wei fully demonstrated the distinctive features of note novels: first, the narrative was short; The second is to pay attention to reasoning.

Liaozhai is a wonderful book with "one book and two bodies", which successfully draws on many narrative methods of historical biography literature. There are about 300 novels in Liaozhai, which, in terms of artistic form, contain two themes: legend and strange stories from Liaozhai, and are praised as typical stories from Liaozhai.

Different ideological contents.

The ideological content reflected by the two works in different narrative ways is quite different: in terms of ideological content, Yue Wei mainly advocates "admonition and punishment", followed by "karma". Ji Yun himself did not shy away from the exhortation theme of his works. At the beginning of the first volume, he clearly put forward the theme of his works: "It is beneficial to persuade and punish", which is also emphasized in the two prefaces. He said in the preface to a prosperous time: "If you want to make people know it, you should persuade and punish it." Zheng Zuoxu: "The general idea is to persuade and punish." . Visible, Yue Wei has the function of persuasion and punishment.

Pu Lide, the grandson of Pu Songling, thinks that the ideological content of Strange Tales from a Lonely Studio is mostly related to ghosts and gods; Its body imitates the biographies of past dynasties; When it comes to praise or touch, the narrative research of Strange Tales from a Lonely Studio is used for admonition and punishment. " Although the narrative of Strange Tales from a Lonely Studio also has the intention of persuading and punishing, it mainly focuses on the ideological content of directly attacking the dark politics of the society at that time, widely exposing the shortcomings of the imperial examination, enthusiastically praising the love between young men and women, and reflecting the theme of the important times at that time.

Image innovation is different.

The innovation of the artistic image of Liaozhai is mainly manifested in three aspects: characters, plots and language. Pu Songling's image is full of "loneliness and anger", which shows that the author soothes his emotional world with the illusory and romantic fox image in his works. In the world of foxes, ghosts and flowers, the author describes foxes as adults, writes people and things with foxes, endows foxes with human thoughts and characters, describes stories completely according to people's lifestyles, and endows foxes with humanized feelings. Weaken the evil spirits of the fox in the works and increase the human touch. It has creative significance in the creation of literary works with the theme of fox spirit, which makes the fox have people's favorite character and image. The expansion and transcendence of the traditional fox spirit theme has created a brand-new realm for the novel creation of similar themes.

In language, Pu Songling used "the pen of a gifted scholar", focusing on describing people, being good at describing them, writing in a tortuous and delicate way, and being very literary. He created a series of fox fairy images with human nature and human feelings, which enhanced the ideological value and aesthetic value of artistic images. The language feature of Liaozhai is that it can integrate fresh and lively spoken language into profound classical Chinese. Just like the mousetrap in Ah Xian, she is beautiful, kind, kind, hardworking, caring and self-respecting. In addition to the "extraordinary" of "building a warehouse every day" and "having more than one year", she is completely the image of a working woman, which is Pu Songling's outstanding creation.

Ji Yun is a great scholar with rich experience and literary talent, but his thoughts are conservative. Moreover, Remembering Ghosts and Ghosts often implies a tendency of advocating fame and teaching, emphasizing "the writer's pen", so Ji Yun's Reading Micro lacks artistic innovation in these aspects.