| LiaoZhaiZhiYi was a great short novel anthology written by classical Chinese, ranking as a poetic masterpiece through the ages. We would cherish its contents of normal human feeling forever. The sincerity, morality and justice in which the whole work reflected touched us deeply. The works of repaying kindness category in this short novel .anthology gave expression to the confucianists' thinking of repaying kindness in kindness. It also affected by folk literature since The Poem Sutra deeply. It included the type of helpness and the type of heart to heart. The foundation of this classification was: the former embodied the protagonist's self-management of morals; the latter embodied the tacit agreement between the protagonist and the target. So the latter was the distillation of the former, which made the works of the type of heart to heart flashing brightly. This work inherited and developped the literature tradition of Zhi Guai Novel of Wei and Jin Dynasty and Legendary Novel of Tang Dynasty. In the love stories we smelled the sweet smelling fragrance of trees and flowers, and they also showed the rich function of encouraging people to do good and punishing sins. The work mirrored the ethics which we would cherish forever, but also it had the negative influence to people because they gave service to the federacy rule order; the author sang praises of the love, the freedom spirits of women to seeking love; in the other hand, he also tried his best to win a rational shell for his love by inlaying a model of repaying kindness in order to resist the attack of federal apologists, it reflected the thought of the author's conservative point of view which let his work having the cream and dross in the same time. |