A Short Story with Tortuous Plot and Miraculous Imagination:A Study of LOST SOULS——The Artistic Appreciation of LOST SOULS (A Legend in Tang Dynasty)

LOST SOULS is a famous short story written by Chen Xuanyou in Tang Dynasty.It sings the unchangeable love,praises the young people's struggle for autonomous marriage and sparkles with the thoughts against feudalism.In art it plays the role of a link between the past and the future in the history of classical Chinese short novels owing to its intact and well-knitted structure,distinctive images of the characters,peculiar artistic conception,miraculous and tortuous plot and brief language that embodies ac- tions.