When we talk about "Liaozhai" will think of human and demon love, really "Liaozhai" is talking about what?

Whenever we talk about "Liaozhai Zhiyi" will think of some of the love stories, such as Nie Xiaoqian and Ning Caichen, in the "Liaozhai Zhiyi" for the portrayal of love is also quite bitter, and it is precisely for this reason that the "Sin Maiden Spirit" can become a classic in the minds of many people. But in fact, "Liaozhai Zhiyi", in addition to discussing the love between humans and demons or humans and ghosts, is actually more in exposing and criticizing the social and political corruption at that time, the people are living in dire straits. It shows that the suffering of the people ultimately comes from the exploitation of the officials.

Pu Songling's main purpose in writing "Liaozhai Zhiyi" was to reflect the atrocities of the ruling class at that time, when the officials were corrupt and made the people's lives miserable, rather like a ? Vermilion door wine and meat road have frozen dead bone? The feeling of the world's greatest city was not written in the book. All this was not written in the Liaozhai at that time. For example, in "Xi Fangping", it was written that Xi Fangping would not die for his own wrongdoing, and in "Xianggao", it was written that in order to take revenge, Xianggao eventually turned into a tiger and bit his enemy to death, and all these characters were meant to show the results of the persecution of the people by the officials at that time.

At the same time, Liaozhai also mentions the imperial examinations, and Pu Songling's views on them can also be seen in the book. At that time, Pu Songling was very talented, but always failed the examination, which also made him see the shortcomings of the examination and the corruption of the officials. Therefore, when the book describes some literati students, it can reflect their inner dynamics, but also through an unreal world to show the irony of the loss of human nature for the sake of fame and fortune for the readers. Therefore, the book "Liaozhai" has a very strong social significance.

So when we read "Liaozhai Zhiyi", not only to see some of the touching love story, or pay attention to Pu Songling wants to express the idea, as well as to understand the common people at that time is living in what kind of environment, which is conducive to our better reading of the book.