What ghost stories have been told in Strange Tales from a Lonely Studio? Where is Pu Songling from?

Pu Songling is a famous writer of classical Chinese novels in Qing Dynasty, and his work Strange Tales from a Lonely Studio is well-known at home and abroad. With the in-depth understanding of Strange Tales from a Lonely Studio, people are more curious about its author Pu Songling. However, there has always been controversy about Pu Songling's lineage.

It is said that Pu Songling is a Mongolian. A Brief History of Mongolia records: "Pu Songling, a Mongolian writer, compiled folk stories into Strange Tales from a Lonely Studio to reflect the social reality, with vivid and interesting contents." It is also recorded in Lu Dahuang's Chronicle of Mr. Pu Liuquan that when the Yuan Dynasty was about to perish, the Pu family renamed the orphan to foster care in Yang, and later changed his surname to Pu during the Hongwu period of the Ming Dynasty. Also said. He visited many people named Pu. Legend has it that they are Mongolians.

There are also views that Pu Songling is a Hui or a descendant of Hui people. Some people have researched the history and found that the names of Arabs and Persians who came to China in the Song Dynasty were mostly prefixed with the word "Pu". In the Yuan Dynasty, some Hui people still used Arabic names, but gradually changed to Chinese names and surnames. Based on this, they concluded that Pu Songling's distant ancestors, Pu Lu Hun and Pu, took the first word "Pu" in their father's name as their surnames.

The book "Eight Min Tong Zhi" also records that Pu used to be a salt transport ambassador, in charge of the monopoly of salt, wine, iron and vinegar and the management of the municipal shipping company. At that time, most of the people who held this position were Muslims. In addition, there is also a saying in the records of Pu's genealogy that "there is a true religion in the world, and there is one vein in the world", so Pu is undoubtedly a descendant of the Hui nationality. But some people question this statement.

People analyzed Strange Tales from a Lonely Studio and found that in this work, Pu Songling mentioned Buddhism, Taoism and the legendary city god, judge and Rebecca without scruple, from which it can be judged that Pu Songling is by no means a Muslim.

Besides, in Strange Tales from a Lonely Studio, Pu Songling said that when he was born, his father dreamed that a monk was holding a dream, and claimed that his life experience was similar to that of a monk. It can be seen that Pu Songling's family believes in Buddhism rather than Islam, so Pu Songling can't be a Hui nationality. In addition, some people think that Pu Songling is a semu, a golden girl and a Korean.