An Explanation for the Phenomenon of"Used to Be Yexia Liu Gonggan in His Previous Lifetime"
In the Tang Dynasty novel Unreliable Strange Record,the county official Gu Zong was Liu Zhen in his previous lifetime.In the contemporaneous novel A Record of Strangeness,Liu Zhen,Xie Zhuang and Bao Zhao traveled together.Huang Tingjian of the Northern Song Dynasty wrote"used to be Yexia Liu Gonggan in his previous lifetime"in the poem.In the early Qing Dynasty,Wei Geng believed that"the predecessor is Liu Zhen".In the Qing Dynasty,Pu Songling's Strange Stories from a Chinese Studio:Zhenhou wrote that Liu Zhongkan was the reincarnation of Liu Zhen.These novels,legends,or poems constitute an interesting phenomenon of"used to be Liu Gonggan in his previous lifetime".There are three main reasons for this phenomenon.First,Liu Zhen is extremely talented,and people in later generations admire him very much.Second,Liu Zhen rebels against orthodoxy and people are very curious about him.Third,people like Liu Zhen's works.
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