Theoretical Contribution of FENG Zhen-luan’s Comment on The Strange Tales of Liao Zhai

The inchoation of the comment on Chinese ancient novels was LIU Chen-weng’s comment on classical Chinese novel Shi Shuo Xin Yu,but it became popular by the comments of JIN Sheng-tan,MAO Lun and MAO Zong-gang,ZHANG Zhu-po,etc. on demotic novels. The dilemma of the comments on classical Chinese novels has some relationship with creation hard times. The Strange Tales of Liao Zhai is an outstanding representative of ancient Chinese novel. Many famous writers and literature theoreticians commented. In these comments,FENG Zhen-luan’s makes the greatest theoretical contributions. Especially his write a novel intentionally theory and novel-history macroscopic angle of view can be regarded as a milestone in the history of Chinese novel comment.