As a classic ghost story novel, what is the literary value of Liaozhai?

Strange Tales from a Lonely Studio, as a classic ghost novel, has the following literary values:

One is to praise the pure love between men and women. In feudal times, the free love between men and women was not recognized or even stifled. In Strange Tales from a Lonely Studio, young men and women can fall in love and combine freely, expressing their yearning for free love.

The second is to expose the exploitation of the working people by the rulers. There is an emperor who likes to play cricket in "Promoting Weaving". In order to please the emperor, officials at all levels tried their best to find crickets and make the people lose everything. In Xi Fang Ping, Xi Fang Ping's father was bought by the rich and died, and Xi Fang Ping went to the underworld to avenge himself. As a result, the underworld is also protecting officials, taking bribes and bending the law, and justice cannot be done at all. Although this work is about the underworld, it reflects the darkness of human officialdom.

The third is to attack the decay of the imperial examination system. Pu Songling himself failed many times in the imperial examination, which made him deeply suspicious of the imperial examination system. He believes that his repeated failures are due to the incompetence and corruption of officials. For example, in Ye Sheng, although Ye Sheng, the protagonist, "wrote the best ci at that time", he tried again and again and eventually died of grief, and later became the son of fooling around and possessing the city order. I got a promotion in the exam. Ye Sheng knew that the reason for his repeated failures was not his incompetence, but the decadent imperial examination system.

The fourth is to praise the good character of the people's resistance struggle. In "Xi Fang Ping", Xi Fang Ping revenged his father and reported Pluto to the city god. Despite the cruel punishment, Xi Fang Ping did not give in to the evil forces. Finally, with the help of Erlang God, he cured Bruto and Chenghuang God and avenged his father. Xi Fang Ping is a representative of the people's resistance struggle, which is commendable.

So Strange Tales from a Lonely Studio is really an excellent novel.