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Feng Menglong and his Contribution to Chinese Literature... 26 Issues of Far Eastern Literatures: Materials of the 11th International Scientific Cconference. June 27–29, 2024 the spirit of the people of the people’s way of life and the Ming Dynasty folk publishing is closely related to the prosperity of the prosperity of the folk. Keywords: Feng Menglong, “Wisdom”. Xu Jiawen (SPbSU), st106485@student.spbu.ru A Brief Analysis of the Elements of Love, Sexuality and Death in the Female Characters in Feng Menglong’s Book “San Yan” “San yan" is a collection of three short stories written by Feng Menglong in the Ming Dynasty, including “Metaphors of the World,” “AWarning to the World,” and “Waking Up to the World”. Out of the 120 stories in total, 114 of them mention death, and after Feng Menglong’s skillful interpretation of these numerous deaths, they are transformed into wonderful death narratives. Among them, the theme of love occupies half of the territory, and the death narratives under this theme are also rich in types, ranging from the shackles imposed on human nature by rituals, ethics, and even laws, to the choice of the self in the face of emotions, lust, and other issues, which also shows the author's dialectical attitude towards “love” and “reason”. “San yan” utilizes the personalities of the male and female protagonists in the stories to present the tension between the collective subconsciousness of the inner mind and the moral and cultural consciousness of the personal- ity masks, through which the instincts of love and death are strongly expressed, and the cultural mindset of the contemporary people who are in search of curiosity is emphasized, highlighting the importance of the value of life of the lust in the late Ming Dynasty. The rulers of the Ming Dynasty in China highly respected Cheng’s concepts such as “the rule of heaven, the destruction of human desires” and “the three principles and five rules”, which severely restricted people’s thinking, suppressed the freedom of human nature, and stifled people’s innate emotions. With the economic development of the Ming Dynasty, the citizen class and its intellectuals were eager to draw the nutrients they needed from ancient culture, thus promoting the prosperity of citizen literature. Keywords: Female Characters, Feng Menglong, sexuality, death, literature. Yang Chenbei (SPbSU), st106502@student.spbu.ru Expression of Tragic Elements in Feng Menglong’s «History of Love» “History of Love” compiled by Feng Menglong is a collection of literary novels about the “love” culture in ancient China, as well as a history of the love and marriage life of men and women in the ancient Chinese society, which contains 902 stories of marriage and love in the ancient society, vividly and comprehensively demonstrating the style of the traditional Chinese concepts of love and the principles of marriage and love. Secondly, the «History of Love» is a symbol of the end of the Ming Dynasty (XVI to XVII centuries) under this particular social culture, which not only serves as a basis for interpreting Feng Menglong and the development of his thought, but also objectively facilitates the research on the social and cultural trends of the end of the Ming Dynasty and the beginning of the Qing Dynasty. It is worth paying attention to the fact that «History of Love» has high literary and ideological value from the selection and preparation of stories; at the same time, «History of Love» is also an important source of material for modern Chinese novels, operas and other literary creations, and only the “Three Words”: «Stories Old and New» ( 喻世明 言 ); «Stories to Caution the World» ( 警世通言 ); «Stories toAwaken the World» ( 醒世恒言 ) has more than