因果报应作为一种影响深远的佛教理论,与国人固有的因果报应思想互相激荡、磨合、吸收成为中国社会上自帝王下至贩夫走卒的共同民族心理。同时又与小说这一体裁相互作用,成为中国古代小说的一个母题。《阅微草堂笔记》沿袭传统,借用因果报应手段收集、组织材料,结构故事。用一个个鲜活的例子更直接、更明了的传达圣人“善有善报,恶有恶报”的道理,通过讽刺、揭露、警戒达到劝善惩恶、匡正风气的目的。 As a far-reaching theory of Buddhism, karma should be agitated and run in harmony with the inherent causal recriminations of the people and absorbed and become the common national mentality from the imperial princes to the hawkers in Chinese society. At the same time, it interacts with the genre of novels and becomes a motif of ancient Chinese novels. “Yue Wei Cottage Notes” followed the tradition, by means of karma to collect, organize materials, structure story. With a vivid example, it is more direct and clear to convey the truth of the Sage “good and good, evil and evil ”, through irony, expose and alert to achieve the purpose of persuading and punishing evil and rectify the trend.