Liaozhai folk songs are easy-to-read dialect adapted from many stories in Strange Tales from a Chinese Studio by Pu Songling, a great litterateur and king of the short story in the late Ming and early Qing Dynasties, which matched with the popular folk songs in the Zichuan area in the Ming and Qing Dynasties, and are a large telling and singing story. After three hundred years of the vicissitudes of life, Liaozhai folk songs became decadent from prosperity. Since the 1950s and 1960s, musicians and government departments have not stopped rescuing and protecting them, including the arrangement of tunes, the creation of new plays and the cultivation of folk songs talents. Under the background of social transformation, how to get the better inheritance and development of Liaozhai folk songs through open and inclusive attitude is the common thinking of music workers.
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