Why do foxes in Strange Tales from a Lonely Studio like poor scholars?

There are many love stories in Strange Tales from a Lonely Studio. The protagonists are mostly foxes and scholars. Most of the foxes in the book are gentle and kind, with good looks and extraordinary skills, while the scholars are poor. The gap between the two is too big, but it happened that love came into being.

These stories are very similar to some ancient legends in China, such as Cowherd and Weaver Girl, Legend of White Snake, Seven Fairys and Yong Dong. The heroines are all fairies or beautiful ghosts, while the heroes are all lonely scholars without exception.

In ancient times, many such stories of "strong women and weak men" are like many romantic novels of "overbearing president falling in love with me" in modern times.

Romance novels such as "Overbearing President Fall in Love with Me" are designed to satisfy the beautiful fantasies of adolescent girls. It can be inferred that the stories of these foxes falling in love with poor scholars are designed to satisfy the fantasies of frustrated literati in ancient times, and they are just pastimes when they are bored.

Moreover, Pu Songling, the author of Strange Tales from a Lonely Studio, is also an out-and-out "poor scholar". He won a scholar at the age of 19, but he failed to gain fame in the next 50 years. He didn't get a Gong surname until he was 72 years old, and he has been frustrated all these years. He is an ordinary rural teacher.

When he was idle and bored, he would set up a stall on the roadside to sell tea, so he heard many stories and gossip, and slowly accumulated and produced Strange Tales from a Lonely Studio, and wrote the stories he heard in the book, but most of the protagonists became immortals and ghosts.

It is not difficult to understand that most of the protagonists in all books are poor scholars: after all, the author of the book is a poor scholar himself, and there is more or less his own shadow in the story. ?