遥忆黑头已珥貂 相逢快语彻清宵——蒲松龄与王士禛交游考

I remember the poor scholar and the dignitary,When they met,they talked all night——A study on the friendship between Pu Songling and Wang Shizhen

蒲松龄与王士禛一生中只有一次会面,其后主要是书信往来、诗歌赠答,由于两人的身份、地位、名望过分悬殊,交往中并非完全平等,但他们相知相赏,其交往和友情堪称清初文坛的一段佳话。蒲松龄在与王士禛的交往中颇为自重,没存非分之想,纯粹是君子之交、文字之友。王士禛的奖誉和提携,对蒲松龄坚定信念,持之以恒地完成《聊斋志异》的创作,以及促进《聊斋志异》的广泛传播,都起到了相当大的作用。

Pu Songling and Wang Shizhen met only once in their lives,and they communicated mainly through letters and poems.They were not equal in their friendship due to the great disparity in their status and fame,but they knew and appreciated each other,and their friendship could be called a story in the literary world in early Qing Dynasty.Pu Songling is quite self-respecting in his contacts with Wang Shizhen,and has no unreasonable thoughts.Wang Shizhen's praise of Pu reinforced Pu’s confidence of finishing Strange Stories from a Chinese Studie and played an important role in the spread of it.