The women depicted in sentimental novels during the early period of the Republic of China are mostly submissive, modest, conciliatory, virtuous and kind, but the bear the heavy burden of the feudal code of ethics.

The Feudal Ethics during the Zhou Dynasty and the Occurrence of The Poems of Love in the Book Of Songs;

From the point of human desire,this book criticizes the idealist philosophy of the Song and Ming dynasties which represented the feudal ethics of old China and constrained greatly the normal human desire of Chinese People.

In the pre-Qin ethics,there were several factors of harmony in dealing with the relationship between the male and the female.

In the Han Dynasty,the concept of instruction to the females in the ethics was different from that in the real life.

Madman s Diary by Luxun has long been considered a story exposing the cruel feudal ethical code.

In the beginning of prosperity of feudal ethical code, the women in Han Dynasty received the education of "women s morals" and "women s achievements", in a.

The popular critical belief in the cause of her death is that it results from four chains of the feudal ethical code.

Although Confucianism was attacked violently in the movement of anti-confucianism in the period of May Fourth,the critique is not enough to accomplish the task of Enlightenment in China,because Confucianism is not the whole of Chinese traditional culture.

In such a society,the theoretical pattern for formulating divorce policies an d laws is based on Confucianism while its principle lies on gender inequality and constraints on divorce and its objective on reservation o f the feudal patriarchy and family solida.

Confucianism was developed rapidly in the West Han Dynasty, and the status of the women was connected closely with the ethical principals advocated by Confucianism.