The development of vernacular short novels in the Ming and Qing Dynasities had experienced three stages, that was in the late Ming Dynasty, at the turn of the Ming and Qing Dynasties and in the early Qing Dynasty. Each time the imitative works of vernacular short novels appeared in the virtuous women image embodied the concept of chastity were not the same, al- though this change was limited, but still had certain characteristics of the times. In the mid and late Ming Dynasty, the chastity in vernacular short novels was to the extreme, the dynasties vernacular description focus was not proclaiming chastity, for the descrip- tion of virtuous women mostly glossed over, and in the early Qing Dynasty, virtuous woman images were not much, but reflected a return to the traditional characteristics.%明清拟话本小说的发展大致经历了三个阶段，即明代中后期、明清易代之际和清代前期。各个时期拟话本中出现的贞节烈女形象所体现出的贞节观念也不尽相同，虽然这种变化是有限的，但是仍然具有一定的时代特征。明代中后期的拟话本中的贞节观走向极致，明清易代之际拟话本的描写重点不在宣扬贞节观上，对于贞节烈女的描写大多一笔带过，而清代前期拟话本中的贞节烈女形象虽然不多，却体现出了向传统回归的特征。
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