One is the uncivilized life that is mainly carried by the image of XiangXi sailors and another is the free sexual love that is expressed with the XiangXi women in his novels as Cui-cui,even the image of prostitutes in XiangXi.

With the popularization of the idea of free love in China,love tragedies saw a steady increase during 1920s and 1940s.

With the spread of free love after the May 4th Movement,1919,the topic of relationship between spirit(love)and flesh(sex)became ever more prominent.

To guide youth amativeness,the newspapers and periodicals during the Republic of China Period published a lot of articles,which came up with ideas of free amativeness and marriage,deeply and detailedly discussed the problems about meanings,approaches and annotations of free amativeness.

Being affected by the ideas of free marriage, college students in the Republic of China period gradually became unwilling to accept traditional arranged marriage and had the impulsion and need for free amativeness.

Animadverting on the traditional way of marriage, they actively advocated free courtship,and deeply discussed the problems about meanings,value,ethics and approaches of free amativeness.