A Study On The Classification Of Official Images In Liao Zhai Zhi Yi

The images of officials in strange tales from a Chinese studio are numerous and their identities are complicated.According to the world cognition concept in traditional Chinese culture,they can be divided into three categories: those in the underworld,those in the human world and those in the celestial world.According to the article,these officials were further divided into two categories: virtuous and evil,loving the people and tyrannical,and upright and corrupt.According to this basis to analysissing the reasons and artistic techniques of Pu Songling' official image.Among these three types of official images,the underworld official is the decisive factor for whether the people can receive a fair judgment in the underworld after they die,the evil official punished innocent ghosts,and the integrity official is the hope of most ghosts' afterlife.The existence of the officials of the underworld can form a warning function to the living people.As the most realistic image of officials,human officials were the most numerous among the three types of officials.To some extent,the image of human officials reflected the social bureaucracy at that time.The image of officials in the celestial world is the least one in Liao Zhai Zhi Yi.Compared with the former two types of officials,the officials from the underworld have to judge the life of the dead.The human officials are the ones directly in charge of the people,while the celestial officials,who are in the highest position among the three categories,have the least contact with the people.The reason may be that since the officials of the celestial realm were already in the celestial realm,they had little involvement in human affairs,so they had relatively little material and content to create.And these three official images in Pu Songling's articles are good and evil all exist,and there are all include virtuous and maltreatment.And the violent officials also exist in celestial world.The negative image of the officials in the underworld and the celestial realm is actually Pu songling's more penetrating description and revelation of the maltreated officials in the reality by means of deformation and curious.This kind of description of the three types of officials in the underworld,the human world and the celestial world at the same time creates anetwork of officials in the three circles and makes Pu songling's description of the image of the officials reach the acme of the overall characterization of the officials in the novel,which can be said to be the model of the overall characterization of the novel characters in the history of literature.