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Abstract
The main purpose of Feng Menglong's creation of "Sanyan" (Three Collections of Short Stories) is to educate the general public. He adopted the principle of correspondence in the arrangement of the stories, that is, the titles of every two volumes form an antithetical couplet, and the contents complement and echo each other. Among them, Chapter 15 and Chapter 16 of Jing Shi Tong Yan (Stories to Warn the World) complement and echo each other, jointly expressing the theme of "sincerity and loyalty". In the aspect of realm, "sincerity and loyalty" is manifested as "stillness in the absence of movement and existence in movement", and in the aspect of content, it is manifested as "faithfulness and loyalty" and "filial piety and loyalty". These two aspects jointly construct the core ethical and moral values and code of conduct of the general public. In addition, "The Little Lady Gives Money to the Young Man" and Jin Ping Mei are in the same cultural environment and synchronic discourse space, and there are phenomena of mutual intersection and penetration in the texts, showing intertextuality.
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