Shrew In Novels During Late Ming Dynasty And Early Period Of Qing Dynasty

The Late Ming Dynasty and the early period of Qing Dynasty is very special time in Chinese history. During the period, shrew being as fashion is wildly existed. And it became so much as the popular topic in novels and arts. This article is focused on the shrew, including reason, outcome and influence which based on all kinds of social society's situation.There were lots of shrews in the history book, but the meaning is not the same one. Sometimes it referred to the women who were against the basic law or bided defiance to the governmental rule .In this article the word of shrew is back to itsoriginal signification------the antithetic relationship between wife and husbandincluding some relative people.Ming dynasty made used of the Zhuxi's theory to manage whole country. But as it reached the late period, the measure failed. Due to rapid development of commodity economy, the lost attractive of shoji's theory and the prevailing of Wangyangming's Xinxue in intellectual .people's idea dramatically changed. On one hand, intellectual and wealth merchantmen pursued more and more beautiful women .being a shrew is the only way to deal with concupiscent husband in order to protect her rights. On the other hand, the well-fixed wife had the advantage in the daily life.Though shrew and the virtuous woman is in the appositive stand, but sometimes they can changed each other. And the virtuous women are so impressive that intellectual paid their respect to them, even to shrew. Therefore some intellectual impressed their understanding and sympathies on the shrew issue. Someone began to do self-reflection. At this rate, the following people were urged to take rational attitude towards shrew and virtuous woman.