| The Tails of Yijian is the best mythical Collected Stories in ancient times, which Hong Mai has devoted all his time. It is the typical classical and mythical novel in Song Dynasty. However, it is not only the best Chinese classical novels, but also it reflects the social life, religion, ethics and customs of Song Dynasty. We can know more about this period through reading these stories.Through interpreting the love and marriage stories in The Tails of Yijian in the aspects of culture, the paper will do further study on the situation of love and marriage at that time. There are three parts: introduction, body (two chapters) and conclusion.The introduction mainly focuses on the historical situation of Song society in China and the new emergence of ideology in order to specify the forming characteristics and the functions of The Tails of Yijian.The first chapter analyzes the realistic marriage novels in The Tails of Yijian. Through classifying and analyzing these novels, section one and section two reveal the man's ideal marriage partner and the marriage style in patriarchal society. Section three depicts the new situation of marriage in Song Dynasty.The second chapter mainly focuses on the relevant love stories. The first section analyzes the love stories out of families. The second section mainly lies in the Platonic love, which is the love between human and other kinds in order to reveal the contradiction between heavenly principles and human desire in reality.The conclusion is to summarize the love and marriage situation of song society which is reflected by these love stories in The Tails of Yijian and the value of the research paper... |
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