The Atmosphere of Love and Marriage of the End of the Ming Dynasty and the Exhibition in Novel

The atmosphere of love and marriage of the end of the Ming dynasty reflects scholars upholding of love and woman's awareness of love. These facts inherit scholar's highly agreeing of love of the middle and the later of the Ming dynasty, but depart love from obscene, and treat love as a highly aim of life, so the life of love has a feature of upholding love. In the practice of love and marriage, many scholars give their love to the prostitute of better talent and ability, or marry to them. As the other side, some women also be aware of love in the practice. They have clear awareness in choosing husband and strict standard for marriage. All these were accepted by writers of that time, which became a side of the writers' appreciation of the beautiful. The set of literature and form of it have sense to the marriage literature, the development of female, which also have meanings to the rebellion to the sense and Chinese traditional marriage system. All these also show the advancement of social thinking.