Liaozhai Zhiyi,which explicitly involves the countryside space in as many as 109 articles,presents the real countryside with the grassroots people as the main subject of survival and the illusory countryside under the external imagination of the literati according to the perspective of its writing.The former focuses on writing the survival plight and the spirit of resistance of the grassr-oots through the space,while the latter reflects the escape mentality of the literati under the interweaving of their identity and the plot of their homeland.In terms of narrative function,Pu Songling guides the narrative intention of the work by linking and comparing the rural space with other spaces,while the isolation and circulation of the illusory space in the countryside has a unique aesthetic function.