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Feng Menglong and his Contribution to Chinese Literature... 23 Issues of Far Eastern Literatures: Materials of the 11th International Scientific Conference. June 27–29, 2024 for storytellers singing & telling stories. A small part of Mimetic scripts for story-telling were written by Feng Menglong himself, and a majority of them were collected or adapted from folklore stories by him, which were meant to satisfy the spiritual needs for people of the lower strata of the society. Therefore, the book also focuses on the concept of secular Buddhism in the Song, Yuan and Ming Dynasties, especially in the Ming Dynasty. To this end, the paper takes what mentioned above as the theme to explore. Firstly, the paper elaborates the image of Buddhist monks and nun characters in the Clear Words to Illustrate theWorld. And then, through a deep analysis of the stories in the novel, the paper analyzes the Buddhist ideology which implies in the stories, hoping provide certain inspiration and reflection for further research in this field. Keywords: Feng Menglong; The ClearWords to Illustrate theWorld; Buddhist Ideology; Buddhist Monks and Nuns Characters; The Song, Yuan and Ming Dynasties. Storozhuk Alexander (SPbSU), a.storozhuk@spbu.ru The Three Sui Quash the Demon’s Revolt and Liao Zhai : Two Ways of Fantastic Discourse Fantastic worlds of Feng Menlong and of Pu Songling have a great deal of common features and literary methods. Both were describing turnskins and wizards, both were constructing the literary universes of their owns. Hence the very attitude towards the literary fabric make works by Feng Menglong and Pu Songling quite different and incongruent. Magic artifacts and literary characters may be quite similar, but the general comprehension of the story itself is going to be quite opposite in all the ways. The paper covers the main aspects of this literary phenomenon and gives its own explanation of the creative methods of both writers. Keywords: Feng Menglong, Pu Songling, Liao Zhai, prose, China. Tsankova Antonia (Sofia University) an.tsankova@gmail.com Hristina Teodosieva (Sofia University) Characteristics of Development of the Written Form of Baihua in Stories from the Collection “The Immortal Word, Awakening the World” by Feng Menglong The paper presents a textual study of stories from the collection “Stories to Awaken the World” 《醒世 恒言》 : the third part of the series collections “Three Sayings” 《三言》 , compiled and edited by Feng Menglong ( 冯梦龙 , 1574–1646). Each of the three parts of “The Three Sayings” includes 40 stories in the genre of medieval stories “huaben” ( 话本 ), some of which are collected and edited ancient stories, while others were written by Feng Menglong himself. The dominant hypothesis claims that the works of the third collection are entirely his own story works. The purpose of this study is to observe, through linguistic analy- sis, as to what extent there are old and decreasing linguistic phenomena in the collection, mostly typical for the early Middle Chinese language, and vice versa, to what extent there are developing grammatical forms that signal the diachronic changes in the written form of baihua by the period of the 16th–17th centuries. By examining 12 grammatical criteria from these two categories in the representative material excerpted from the collection, as well as from previous research, the authors make comparative analyzes and draw