A Study Of Female Images In Xing Shi Yin Yuan Zhuan

Xing Shi Yin Yuan Zhuan is an important work in the history of worldly novels.In this masterpiece involving hundreds of chapters of worldly novels,the author connects two lives of marriage by karma,used a heavy and realistic writing style to create a unique group of women.Xi Zhousheng,as a male author,under the influence of traditional Confucian ethical concepts and the idea of karma,although his aesthetic evaluation of different women is diverse,his works truly reflect the life and fate of women in feudal society.Through the marriages and family life of these women,the readers can deeply feel the submissiveness and struggle of women in that era.There are three main types of female figures in this novel,namely,the virtuous women represented by Lady Chao and Lady Di,the shrewish women represented by Lady Ji and Lady Xue,and the slutty women represented by Lady Zhen,all of whom carry typical characteristics.A deeper excavation of the reasons for these women’s obedience and rebellion reveals the repression and bondage of feudal rituals on women,as well as the influence of the moral degradation of the world at the end of Ming Dynasty on women’s psychology and behavior.Under the influence of the thought of karma and retribution,the author Xi Zhousheng ponders deeply the universal problems of marriage,family and social life,and arranges the ending of women’s fate in the mode of karma and retribution,showing a tendency of moral exhortation.With a subtle and strict plot structure,the author deepens the female characters and highlights the differences in the trajectories of different women’s fates.Through meticulous portrait descriptions,psychological descriptions and verbal descriptions,the author creates a group of women with different personalities,making a remarkable contribution to enriching the genre of women’s images in worldly novels.