One is to oppose the orthodox position, affirm and advocate people's freedom rights and emotional values, and praise the sentient person Du Like Li Niang, so as to break the fog of orthodox Neo-Confucianism and blow a fresh spring breeze of harmony and happiness in the breasts of the most persecuted women. The vast number of women living in Ming society really seemed to live in a hot prison. On the one hand, it is the pleasure and indulgence of the upper class; On the other hand, the ruling class is highly alert to women and strictly imprisons them. After all, it is too abstract to use Zhu Cheng's Neo-Confucianism to suppress people's desires, so they use the female guidance, internal rules and training of Empress Dowager Cixi and the imperial concubine to educate women. Of course, the most direct. A vivid demonstration measure is to build a chastity archway. There are the most chastity archways in the Ming Dynasty, which suppress the blood and tears of chastity women and their tragic souls. There were 308 paid-in women in the Ming Dynasty, and it is estimated that there are at least 10,000 women in China. A Peony Pavilion warms the hearts of many women! Feudal guardians felt that "when this statement came out, many girls in the world were disgraced", and "in the meantime, I was afraid that one woman would not be moved and one person would not lose her integrity" (Huang's "Good Sailing in the Sea"), which was the lamentation of Peony Pavilion to save the weak women in the strong earthquake.
The second is to advocate personality liberation and break through asceticism. Affirmed the beauty of youth, the loftiness of love, and the happiness of life and death. Baby Daughter and Du Liniang broke through their own psychological defense, crossed the barriers of family and society, and bravely crossed the golden threshold of chastity, death and court. This is a profound inspiration and great encouragement to many women who have stopped or even retreated in the face of love, and it is a bolt from the blue. Du Liniang is in a very difficult situation. Her father was very strict with her. Even after embroidery, she slept for a while and was reprimanded by strict father. strict father even complained that her mother was apostate. The reason why the teacher is invited to speak books is to further restrain her daughter's body and mind from Confucian classics. Poor Du Liniang has grown up to be as beautiful as flowers and pure as jade, but she hasn't even been to a huge back garden at home; This Huatang Jade Room is like a prison ... Therefore, Du Liniang, who is deeply imprisoned, is also very rebellious. Dreaming, being a ghost and being a man all show infinite "love".
Third, under the new situation of the growing commodity economy and the growing citizen class, it has played a role in fueling the rise of the ideological trend of personality liberation. Tang Xianzu's Taizhou School, Li Zhi's theory and his philosophical words and deeds of saving the world are all inevitable products of the development of civil society. Tang Xianzu didn't struggle as hard as Li Zhi and big officials, but he also opened up a new battlefield of ideological emancipation and personality publicity in the field of literature and art.