英文摘要
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Zhang Ying Yu's Du Pian Xin Shu is a novel containing both kong and secular features of the Late-Min Dynasty. The author aims to eradicate imposture in social affairs by analyzing the theorems and techniques of the deceitful tricks utilized by various folks. Thus, the author's writing objective creates the realistic style of the novel.
The realistic writing characteristic of this novel has become a reference for social phenomena of that era. Therefore, the stories about cheating monks in this novel constitute the research objective for understanding social images of monks in the Late-Min Dynasty. First, a study of nine types of monk-cheating stories, as well as a comparison and analysis of similar stories in other novels, can facilitate an understanding of the expanding situation and its influences on monk-cheating affairs at that time. Moreover, an investigation into the meanings of monk-cheating stories also assists in understanding the religious cognizance of scholars at that time, in the view of traditional Confucians. Moreover, the sensual feature of these monk-cheating stories represents a sensual concept of monks to a certain extent. Finally, the social images of monks in the Late-Min Dynasty can be surmised from these monk-cheating stories and the author's various discussions of monks.
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