On this day, 310 years ago, on February 25, 1715 (January 22, 1715 lunar calendar), Pu Songling, a writer of the Qing Dynasty, died. Pu Songling (1640-1715), the word Liuxian, the word Sword Minister, nicknamed Liuquan Lay Scholar, known as Mr. Liaozhai in the world, calling himself Yi Shi, is now a native of Pujiazhuang, Hongshan Town, Zichuan District, Zibo City, Shandong Province. Born into a family of small and medium-sized landowners and merchants who were gradually declining. At the age of 19, he was a boy in the examination, and he successively obtained three first places in the county, prefecture and dao, which made him famous for a while. Make up for doctoral disciples. After repeated attempts, he failed, and he did not become a gongsheng until he was 71 years old Forced by life, in addition to being invited by Sun Hui, the governor of Baoying County, to be a guest for him for several years, he mainly worked as a schoolteacher in Biji Youjia, Xipu Village, the county, and worked hard for nearly 40 years until he withdrew his account and returned home in 1709. He died in the first month of 1715 at the age of 76. He created the famous collection of classical Chinese short stories "Liaozhai Stories". Pu Songling was born on April 16, the 13th year of Chongzhen in the Ming Dynasty (June 5, 1640 AD), and died on the 22nd day of the first month of the 54th year of Kangxi in the Qing Dynasty (February 25, 1715 AD). Youshi, a writer of the Qing Dynasty. King of Chinese short stories. Born in a family of declining landlords, he was keen on the imperial examinations all his life until he went to Qingzhou to take the gong at the age of 72. Therefore, he was deeply touched by the irrationality of the imperial examination system. He spent his life completing 8 volumes and 491 articles, about 400,000 words, in "Strange Stories from Liaozhai". The content is rich and colorful, the stories are mostly taken from folklore and anecdotes from unofficial history, adding personal touch and socialization to the things of the flower demon fox and the underworld, fully expressing the author's love and hate feelings and beautiful ideals. The work inherits and develops the excellent tradition and expression techniques of the legendary literature of ghosts in our country's literature. The plot is fantastical and tortuous, the ups and downs are changeable, the writing is concise, and the narrative is clear. It is known as the highest-achieving collection of classical Chinese short stories in our country. In "A Brief History of Chinese Novels", Mr. Lu Xun said that this book is "the most famous person in the special collection." Mr. Guo Moruo wrote a booklet for the former residence of the Pu family, praising the Pu family's works for "writing ghosts and writing demons is superior to others, and stabbing greed and stabbing is three points to the bone." Lao She also commented on the Pu family's "ghost fox has character, and laughs and scolds into articles." Ma Ruifang called him "the king of short stories in the world." After the book "Strange Tales in Liaozhai" was completed, Pu Songling was unable to print it due to his poverty. His hometown friend Wang Shizhen attached great importance to Pu Songling, thinking it was a genius, and hired it as an inscription poem for "Strange Tales in Liaozhai": "My aunt listens to it, and it rains like silk in the bean shed. I should In the 31st year of Qianlong in the Qing Dynasty (1766 AD), it was published and published. Later, many companies competed to reprint, and there were more than 30 versions at home and abroad. Famous versions include Qingke Tingben and Zhuxuezhai, etc., and translations were published in nearly 20 countries. There are more than 100 publications of "Liaozhai" nationwide, and more than 160 dramas, movies and TV series were written with the stories of "Liaozhai" as the content.