What are the characteristics of Pu Songling's collection of short stories in classical Chinese?

Strange Tales from a Lonely Studio not only inherits the excellent traditions of Wei Jin's strange tales and Tang legends, but also absorbs beneficial nutrition from historical biography literature and vernacular novels, forming its own unique artistic style, which represents the highest level that China's ancient classical novels have reached and can reach. First, the author intends to connect the fantasy realm with the real society in order to pin his loneliness and ideals and make his works full of romance; It is also based on reality and contains profound life contents. Fantasy and authenticity complement each other, and the unity of opposites constitutes the outstanding feature of Strange Tales from a Lonely Studio. Secondly, the main artistic achievement of Strange Tales from a Lonely Studio is to successfully create a large number of unrealistic artistic images. The basic way to shape these images is to take its sociality as a "person" as the core, and skillfully integrate its natural or fantasy attributes as a "thing" to make it an artistic image with a compound unity of human nature and physical property. In this way, these flower foxes are both human and amiable, making people forget that they are different; It also contains their innate temperament and surreal supernatural nature, which makes people feel unattainable and greatly enhances the aesthetic feeling of the image. Thirdly, the plot of Strange Tales from a Lonely Studio is bizarre and tortuous, but it is logical in the specific situation provided by the work and inevitably appears according to some internal logic. The internal logic of its plot mainly includes character logic and fantasy logic, which are often included in the same plot series, achieving a high degree of harmony and unity, forming the artistic characteristics of the work with truth in the virtual and truth in the fantasy. Fourthly, Strange Tales from a Lonely Studio uses beautiful, elegant, refined and vivid classical Chinese to achieve a high degree of unity between the style of classical Chinese and the essence of life, thus forming an elegant, beautiful, fresh and vivid language style. Both the characters' language and the narrative language of the works present a rich flavor of life in the form of classical Chinese, full of descriptive power and expressive force, which greatly enhances the novelty and interest of classical Chinese novels.