More than 300 years ago, at the entrance of Pujiazhuang Village in the suburbs of Zichuan, Shandong, a middle-aged man could often be seen setting up a tea stall. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 info is dressed in a cloth robe, washed white, with cuffs curled, and a little bookish between his eyebrows. The middle-aged man warmly greeted the passing merchants and villagers: "Come, drink a bowl of tea, rest your feet......"

This person is Pu Songling.

Pedestrians sit down, in twos and threes, laughing and laughing, drinking tea, chatting about the little things in the countryside, facing the north in the south, covering the clouds and mountains in the fog, and occasionally telling small jokes. Mr. Pu listened attentively, nodding his head from time to time, and he walked back and forth, carrying a pot of water for everyone. Until the villagers rested their strength and left one by one.

In the evening, when most people were asleep, Pu Songling walked into the bookstore he named "Liao Zhai", sat down, lifted the brush, twisted the oil lamp, unfolded the rough-edged paper, and wrote his later short story collection "Strange Tales of Liao Zhai", which laid a monument in the history of Chinese literature.

Pu Songling has been a smart child since he was a child. At the age of 11, he read the scriptures from his father, and was keen on doing business, and at the beginning of 19, he should take the boy's examination, that is, he took the first place in the county, government, and Taoism, and made up for the doctor's disciples. The future is in sight, and Pu Liuxian's literary name is greatly revitalized. However, creation makes people. Since then, from the age of 24 to 51, in the past 27 years, Pu Songling has participated in the Shandong Township Examination six times, but he was eliminated and was not on the list.

It is painful to not meet talents, but the problem of eating is more important.

At the age of thirty-one, forced to make a living, Pu Songling was invited by his fellow villager Sun Hui to go to Baoying County, Jiangsu Province as a guest.

-- Roughly equivalent to a county civil servant who copied documents and was sentenced to prison.

Pu Liuxian's talent and temperament, since he was not tolerated in the township test eight shares, and he was defeated repeatedly; now he has become a member of the state organs, wears uniforms, eats public food, and faces the same party, bullying and flattering, and intriguing...... Not necessarily able to handle it easily?

He resigned the following year. Since then, Pu Songling has been teaching in his hometown, reading and writing while continuing to take exams.

Pu Luhun, the ancestor of the Pu family, was an official in the Yuan Dynasty and had a prominent family background. After his livelihood fell short, Pu Songling's father had to throw away his books and go out to do business to support the family. But by the time Pu Songling was young, the Pu family was already quite poor, he got married and separated, "living in three old farm houses, without four walls, small bushes, and full of basil ......" lived a cold and poor life.

In the eighteenth year of Kangxi (1679), after more than ten years of hard work, Pu Songling finally completed "Strange Tales from Liao Zhai". and wrote a "Self-Chronicle".

When the work comes out, the writer should be in a happy mood? However, in this "Self-Chronicles", I can't find the slightest bit of joy when I look at it. In the dead of night, a light is like a bean, and the bleak autumn wind blows by, as if even the pen and inkstone on the desk are about to freeze. Flower demons and ghost foxes, magnificent and strange. Pu Liuxian and Pu Jianchen, you like people to talk about ghosts, dance and write ink, you are a scholar with a green heart, unwilling to be vulgar, and ill-fated, you can't even get into the show, and you are cold-eyed, "vainly continuing the record of the netherworld" and "only becoming a lonely and angry book". Who is your "Liao Zhai" for?

――Is my predecessor really that sick monk?

Pu Songling has many works, in addition to "Strange Tales from Liaozhai", there are more than 400 essays, more than 1,000 poems, more than 100 words, three plays, and 18 popular slang songs. And also:

"Provincial Quotations", "Marriage Book", "Pregnancy Record", "Primary School Festival", "Daily Vulgar Characters", "Agricultural Mulberry Sutra", "Medicine Book", ......

Pu Songling's life was contradictory. He lived in the mountains and set up tents to teach, but he could not break with officialdom like Tao Yuanming, and even at the age of 71, he went to take the exam, hoping that he would once rise to the top and become a member of the temple. He had close relations with many officials and had frequent contacts, and he looked forward to the "introduction and cultivation" of these people. In "Shangjian Chuan Wangyi Waiting for Qi", he clearly stated:

"If you are a blue-eyed person, you will be cultivated by the lotus, in case of Lanshanli City, you would rather forget the grace of the high. ”

Fame and wealth, who said that it was a passing moment?

The glorious road of a scholar is the promotion of the imperial examination, and Pu Liuxian is still ashamed of his life!

Those who know me, they are in the green forest and Hesse!

"Xia Xue" and "Turning into a Man" in "Strange Tales from Liaozhai" record the forty-sixth year of Kangxi, when Pu Songling was sixty-seven years old. This depressed scholar has not given up on supplementing and revising this collection of short stories throughout his life.

At the age of 70, Pu Liuxian withdrew his home.

Six years later, in the fifty-fourth year of Kangxi (1715), Pu Songling died at the age of seventy-six.

Maybe people don't know "Strange Tales from Liaozhai", and they don't know how to write poetry. But they remembered Pu Jianchen, the teacher who set up a tea stall at the entrance of Pujiazhuang Village, who was thin-faced, bearded, and dressed in a cloth robe. Mr. stood beside the official road, waved his hand, and warmly greeted the villagers and merchants passing by: "Come, drink a bowl of tea, rest your feet......"

Pedestrians sat in groups, and the tea stalls immediately became lively.

"Mr. Pu, don't you like to listen to ghost stories? I'll tell you a ......."

"Listen to me, my fresher ......"

"Once upon a time......

Pu Songling listened attentively, nodding from time to time, and he walked around, carrying the pot to refill the water. Maybe you don't need "Strange Tales from Liaozhai", you don't need that pile of poems. Is that just an embellishment after loneliness? Mr. thought, that's it, in broad daylight, cloth clothes calmly, all I need is that pot of hot tea?

Temperature through the years.

Forever as usual.

"Come and rest, fellow ......" (to be continued.) )