Brief analysis of the Ming Dynasty Yanzhou woman chastity phenomenon;

Study of female chastity in "Three Stories" and "Amazing Stories;

Chastity and Affection as Reflected in Nihuaben Novels in Late Ming Dynasty;

In the research of marriage and womens culture in China, Book of Change (Yi Jing) is an invaluable literature revealing mans superiority, the early ideas of virginity, parents decided marriage, marriage age and date, the wife joining the family of her husband, and the sharing of a husband.

In the period of Xia,Shang and Zhou dynasties,while the private family system taking the father right as the center substituted the system taking the blood relation between mother and child,the chastity idea appeared.

The ruling circles and the outstanding person social stratum realized that the strict chastity idea was important,so that female′s chastity was repeatedly stressed.

This text attempts to regard the phenomena of these loyal woman ,chaste girl as the research object, explore women s chastity idea of Ming Dynasty, analyse the inherent reason behind this phenomenon.

Dou E is the model of feudalist society chastity or virginity filial piety woman as for "Snow in Midsummer" circumstances.

Combined with the actual extent to which the society identified women s chastity at that time,it probes into the impacts on women s chastity view from several aspects,that is,marriage customs,policy,law and Neo-Confucianism in Yuan Dynasty.