• CHINESE LITERATURE
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• v.94
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• pp.19-30
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• 2018

It is generally believed, in his book San Yan, Feng Menglong shows a great contradictoriness when it related to female marriage problems, which is female are encouraged to pursue their emotional partners while being strongly demanded to keep the chastity. Existing researches seem relatively simple and superficially. Based on the influence Xin Xue has exerted on Feng, this article offers a thorough analysis of how Feng's inheritance plays a decisive role on creating the contradictoriness in Female marriage stories. Chapter 2 lists several concrete contradictory representations in female marriage stories. Chapter 3 starts with two aspects: theoretical inheritance and practical inheritance, assisting with specific stories, shows that Xin Xue has played a profound and key role in the formation of such contradictions. Finally, it arrived at a conclusion that Feng's stories are actually a fully reflection of the philosophy Xin Xue, and the contradictoriness appears in the stories is indeed the self-contradiction of Xin Xue.