Study On "Jealous Woman-Curing Jealous Woman" Theme In The Novels Of Ming And Qing Dynasty

“Jealous woman” is a special group that can not be ignored in the history of Chineseliterature.The earliest record is in the Tso Chuan. In the Ming and Qing Dynasty, the theme of"jealous woman" became a hot topic in the literary creation, and a number of novels of"jealous woman–curing jealous" theme were emerged, such as the Gourds Full ofVinegar,Marriages to Awaken the World, Strange Tales from a Lonely Studio, Jin YunqiaoBiography, Dream of Red Mansions, Fabulous Stories. Novelists used different forms toresearch this topic, and interpreated why females are very jealousy and aggressive. It isworthwhile to study this phenomnon of novel history.The full text of paper is divided intothree chapters.Jealous woman theme has a long history. There are many jealous women in the historicalliterature. Shuxiang’s mother is the first jealous woman in the Tso Chuan.Xianggong21years.Zheng Xiu of the Warring States Period,Queen mother of Historian,Wei and Jin dynastiesWen di Cao Pi, Zhen Queen, are well-known. In Southern and Northern dynasty, the topic ofjealous woman became much more common, and Du JI is the representive of novel aboutjealous woman. There are many short stories about jealous woman in In Lu Hsun ’s therecovery of ancient short stories, such as Wang Dao’s wife,Xie Taifu’s wife, Huan Wen’s wife,Ruan Xuanzai’s wife, Xun Yu’s. In the Tang dynasty period, the queen dugu, Yi chengPrincess, Li Xian ’s wife, are all well-known jealous women. Until the Song dynasty, thewind of jealous woman is still prevalent.The novels of Jealous woman theme are still popularin the Ming and Qing dynasty. The most representative of the novel is Gourds Full of Vinegarand Marriages to Awaken the World. In addition, there are many other novels about thejealous woman, such as Strange Tales from a Lonely Studio, Li Yu’s silent drama, DoupengRambling Talk, Jin Yunqiao Biography, Dream of Red Mansions, Fabulous Stories. In thesenovels,there are a lot of description of the jealous woman. Jealous woman image in the Mingand Qing novels have their own characteristics.There are jealous of blatant, such as Du shi in Gourds Full of Vinegar,Xue Sujie and Tong Jijie in the Marriages to Awaken the World,Tieshi and Fu shi in the Fabulous Stories, The euphemistic jealousy is another one,such as Huanshi in the Jin Yunqiao Biography, Wang Xifeng in the Dream of Red Mansions.EuphemisticJealous is development and progress of the writers, a means of shaping the image of theJealous woman is the surface of the "Tolerance" and inner "vicious," a combination of a newkind of jealous women.Male writers hate women’s powerful and pungent, and they think that female jealousyis abnormal, morbid, so they strive to treat jealous woman in some strange ways. They are:Drug treatment, which is a way to use medicine to cure jealous woman; moral values, whichis a way to use ideological indoctrination to to control and persuade jealous woman; thesatisfaction of desire is a way to meet the women, especially in sex, to treat jealous woman;Reality lesson, which is a way to make jealous women realize their own mistakes to curethemselves from the punishment in their real life. Religious punishment, which is a way touse the religious ideas to punish jealous woman.In order to cure the jealous woman, the novelist analyzed the reasons for the formationof the jealous woman. In their view, main reasons of jealous and aggressive women are thefollowings: fear of love, due to the beauty of his wife; women’s desires are not met, resultingin disharmony and disharmony; evil marriage, women in splashing defended the cause ofmale literati puzzling only be attributed to causal retribution; polygamy and arrangedmarriage system, leading to women’s situation and the lack of the unequal status of men andwomen, causing women to splash of fierce. Jealous woman in the novel are shaped when theimage of evil from the general tendency in the works reflected the typical male-centeredconcept, if observe from a feminist point of view, the formation of the jealous woman workswill have different reasons. These novels reveals the tragic fate of women in the patriarchalcultural horizons.