The Kao Cheng Huang in Pu Songling's Liaozhai Zhiyi is the first work to clarify the meaning of the book,while Si Wen Lang is the most acco-mplished in ideological and artistic achievements.Scholars have conducted ext-ensive research on the plot sources of these two stories.Ye Dejun,Zhu Yixuan,and others believe that the plot of Kao Cheng Huang may have originated from the story of a person becoming a god after death in literary sketches.Yang Jingmin believes that the wonderful idea of reviewing article through the nose in Si Wen Lang was inspired by Qian Qianyi's XiangGuang Theory.However,from the perspective of source of the story,the creation of Kao Cheng Huang may have been influenced by the folk story Chenghuang Jiaodai,while the plot of Si Wen Lang,which uses a nose to review the article,clearly comes from a folk joke Chao Xue Qian.These two stories were created by Pu Songling inspired by folk literature,which is of great significance for examining the interaction between folk literature and classical literature,and strengthening interdisciplinary research.
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