A Study Of Women's Image In Mid-Tong Marriage And Love Legends

The Tong Dynasty not only possesses the immortal value in literature, it also enhances the implication of sociology. In addition to the attractive plots, the abundant Tong legends are worth exploring and discussing.The target of this dissertation is about the Mid-Tong marriage legends, most of which have been edited at "Tai Peng Kong Kai" written by "Song , Lee Fon". As a result, this dissertation uses the stories in this book; others which are not included at "Tai Peng Kong Kai" will refer to corresponding references.The most important point of this dissertation is to explore the image of the Mid-Tong women through the legendary marriages. In other to have different points of view, I try to analyze the contents basing on the stories themselves and investigating them from different categories. Also, according to specific works, I will look into the social implication of them. Finally, I will try to single out how the Mid-Tong writers created the image of the women through the view of literature.There are five chapters in this dissertation. The first chapter is introduction, indicating the motive, scope and research method of this dissertation. The second chapter is about the types of women in the legends of the Mid -Tong marriages; the stories are classified into five types in order to have detail discussions. The third chapter reflects the social and cultural implication of the legends of the Mid-Tong marriages, recognizing the social and cultural phenomena of Mid-Tong age from the stories. The fourth chapter talks about the artistic characters of the Mid-Tong legendary marriages, examining writing techniques through the discussion of incidents and image of characters. The fifth chapter is the conclusion, which is an overall end of the whole dissertation.