Study On The Love And Marriage Novels Of "Hanshi" Group In "Strange Tales From A Lonely Studio"

Strange Tales of Liao Zhai is the representative of Chinese classical novels.It not only tells us the author's personal emotions as a book of solitary indignation but also describes the varied living conditions of Qing Dynasty.It is no doubt that the character of lower literati the writer spared no effort to portray is based on Pu Songling himself.And it is the product of Pu Songling's affluent life experiences which representatives himself and contains the sustenance of his feelings,fantasies and expectations.About 70 contents of Strange Tales of Liao Zhai describing the marriages of lower literati are about 1/8 of the total number of Novels.This kind of opus mostly describe the marriages of a man and a woman in the world,or a man in the world and a woman outside the world.It Expresses the writer's marriage ideal and his view of love and marriage.It is also the important material for us to research the living and thinking of Pu Songling.The love story Strange Tales of Liao Zhai takes the marriage model of monogamy or one wife and one concubine as the principal thing.To a certain extent,it reflects the real situation of marriage pattern in Qing Dynasty,revealing the status,situation and problems faced of lower literati in the marriage and society.The love stories of Pusongling is a picture that ideal and reality mingle in it,integrating the writer's understanding and ideal about the marriage.The deviation between the marriage life in the novel and in the real reality in Qing Dynasty of lower literati is precisely the most interesting part of the novel.From that we can know the writer's ideal of love and marriage,ideal of personality and idea of society.In Strange Tales of Liao Zhai,it is obvious to all that the writer favored the lower literati.When he portrayed the character of the lower literati,on the basis of reacting the reality,he also melted the subjective feelings and dreams into his novel.The describing of lower literati's marriage and life mapping his circumstances and subjective feelings conveys the writer's mind of pride,autophilia and autolesion.Meanwhile,it reflects his strong patriarchal ideology and a part of fresh feminine consciousness in his view of love and marriage as well.forming a colorful art world seen both merits and demerits.