Evaluating Fox and Ghost Imagery in Liao Zhai Zhi Yi

The author tries his best to personify the flowers, demons and foxes, y reflecting the conflicts in reality through the love of man and ghost, man and fox, and ghost and fox, and at the same time, making full use of the surreal features provided by flowers, demons, foxes and the world of fantasies to prominently express the author's ideal characters and realm of life, eulogizing the pure spiritual pursuit and beautiful love, giving good results to good people, and deserved punishments to the wicked and evil ones.

(1) The image of the steadfast woman who boldly pursues free and beautiful love and marriage

Due to the long-term oppressive bondage of feudalism and its ethics and morals for thousands of years, the human nature of the vast number of women has been distorted for no apparent reason, thus depriving the vast number of women of the driving force in their pursuit of love. A woman's fight for free love and freedom of marriage is regarded as lewd and shameless and is severely condemned by public opinion. However, no matter what era, people always have something to pursue, including the pursuit of love. This is a natural pursuit of human nature, especially for women who have long suffered from feudal oppression.

In Liaozhai Zhiyi, the author has portrayed to us such a class of women who boldly break through the feudal barriers and actively pursue free love and marriage. Among them, the more prominent are "Evening Sun", "Ruiyun", "Liancheng", "Rouge" and other chapters. The heroines in these chapters include prostitutes who represent the image of the lowest class of women, as well as ordinary women.

Their ****same characteristic is their bold and active pursuit of love and marriage autonomy and resistance to the bondage of feudalism. They have both the kind of stubbornness that belongs to women uniquely and the quality of goodness in tradition. Each of them is a combination of beauty of heart and beauty of image.

(2) The image of insulted women

In the long feudal society, the majority of women have been oppressed for a long time, a history of feudalism is a history of women's blood and tears, how many kind-hearted women have been toyed with, abandoned, and "negative marriage" has become a major theme of literature throughout the ages. In the "Liaozhai Zhiyi" in this theme is also a lot, such as "Dou's", "Yun Cui Xian", "Wu Xiaolian" and other articles is such a theme.

These insulted female figures have the following ****same character traits: they are all very kind and cannot y understand the evils of feudalism. Dou is a kind young girl, because of the world is not deep, to the feudal ruling class rhetoric can not be recognized, kindly gullible to believe the lies of the male Sanfu, the result was abandoned; Yun Cuixian, although long known that Liang Youcai is a rogue scoundrel, but still do not disobey his mother's words to marry Liang Youcai and hope that through their own efforts to sensitize Liang Youcai; Fox woman is even more kind, in the most critical time of Shi Mou to save Shi Mou, but also willingly She also willingly married Shi Mou.

Secondly, all these women have a strong sense of resistance. Dou's transformation into a ghost to take revenge, Yun Cui Xian's resolute repudiation of her husband, and the Fox Woman's recovery of her life-saving pills, all of these actions show the awakening of these women and their resistance. These actions show the awakening and resistance of these women. They reflect the social contradictions of the era in which Pu Songling lived and the people's ideological aspirations in a twisted way, and melt into the writer's unique feelings and understanding of life. The author is sending his deep and lonely anger from the real life. Because "Liaozhai Zhiyi" is a collection of short stories completed after a long period of time, the stories come from different sources, the author's ideological understanding of the development of changes before and after, coupled with the author's worldview itself there are contradictions, and thus the book's ideological content of good and bad, more complex. But on the whole, it seems that more than half of the works are excellent, and the main tendency is progressive, truly revealing the contradictions of real life and reflecting the ideals, aspirations and requirements of the people. Sing the praises of life's truth, goodness and beauty, and attack the false, evil and ugly, is Pu Songling's creation of "Liaozhai Zhiyi" total artistic pursuit, but also the most prominent ideological features of this collection of short stories.

From the point of view of the content of the subject matter, the works in "Liaozhai Zhiyi" can be roughly divided into the following five categories:

The first category is to reflect the darkness of the society, to expose and attack the crimes of oppression of the feudal ruling class, the mutilation of people's crimes, such as "Promoting the Weaving", "Red Jade", "Dreaming of Wolves", "Plum Woman", "Continuation of the Yellow Sorghum", "Sinus" and so on;

The second category is to oppose the feudal marriages.

The second category is works that oppose feudal marriage, criticize feudal rites, and glorify the innocent love of young men and women and their struggles for freedom and happiness, such as Infant Ninh, Qing Feng, Axiu, Liancheng, Qing'e, Crow's Head, and Ruiyun etc.;

The third category is works that expose and criticize the corruption and various shortcomings of the imperial examination system, such as Ye Sheng, Yu Goes to the Wicked, The Department of Examination and Evil, Jia Fengqiang, Si Wenlang, Prince An Painted Skin", "Laoshan Taoist", "pupil language", "Wolf" three, etc..

"Liaozhai Zhiyi" in the progressive ideological content is mixed with some backward components, such as feudal ethical and moral concepts, ghosts and gods and superstitious ideas of karma, the pursuit of fame and fortune vulgar tendency, etc., is that we should pay attention to analyze and critique when reading. Liaozhai Zhiyi" as the existence of the novels, which structure the story of a model that is fox, ghosts, flowers, demons, monsters and phantoms into the human world, but with the previous generation is different as well as there is a transcendent for, on the one hand, it is not like the six dynasties of the novels, the image of non-human most of the objects and monsters and fewer human feelings, and the meaning of the ominous. Rather, it makes it more humanized, with human form, god, temperament as the main body, but only some kind of attribute characteristics of foreigners into or attached to it, and especially in the writing of women, the goodness and beauty of human nature are given to its body; at the same time, in the description of foxes, ghosts, flowers and demons, the author is also part of the character, behavior as a kind of sentiment, intention, as a kind of symbolic literary imagery exists, for example, Huang Ying as the For example, Huang Ying is a chrysanthemum spirit, which is endowed with chrysanthemum's high and pure character and noble integrity.

It can be said that the women in Liaozhai Zhiyi have been beautified and strengthened to a certain extent, and they are a combination of wisdom and beauty, while the men are relatively demented and weakened, often not as strong as the women, and they are quite weak and need to help the characters. At the same time in the specific shape, the female image is also rich and colorful, while the male image is relatively single, typecast. For example, most of the male protagonists in Liaozhai Zhiyi are scholars, but they often do not have specific names, but only a family name, known as "X Sheng", such as "Leng Sheng", "Che Sheng "Leng Sheng", "Che Sheng", "Ye Sheng", "Cheng Sheng", and so on, and the image of thin mostly typed, the whole book read down to remember the male image of only a few, and on the contrary, in the portrayal of women, their bodies often have On the contrary, in the portrayal of women, they often have a rebellious attitude, their behavior has a strong anti-traditional, anti-secular color, beyond the norms and the reality of women have a great difference, and become a kind of ideal incarnation.