精怪小说是六朝志怪小说的一个重要组成部分,它是指以非人之物变为人的情节作为叙事核心的一类小说。从志怪小说基础上发展起来的唐传奇,继承并发扬了此种传统,创作出更多、更丰富曲折的精怪故事。由于精怪的产生与长期存在的古代民间信仰有密切关系,在小说创作过程中又不断吸收民间的素材,这使得精怪类小说更具有民间文化的神秘意味,与鬼神小说一样,它所描述的是一个存在于人的观念中的世界。在虚 The weird novel is an important part of the ghost novel in the Six Dynasties. It refers to a class of novels that use non-human things as human plots as the core of narrative. Tang Chuanqi developed from the foundation of the mysterious novels inherits and develops such tradition and creates more and more tortuous mysterious stories. Because of the close relationship between the generation of the monsters and the ancient folk beliefs that exist for a long time, they continue to absorb the material of the folk during the creation of the novel. This makes the weird novels more mysterious to the folk culture. Like the ghosts and gods novel, A world exists in the concept of man. In the virtual