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105. See Yuan’s advice on the choice of a wife or concubine, whereby subjective taste and aesthetic evaluation is deemed more important than feet size or virginity. See Gōyama, “En Mai no kō Shoku Ron,” 155–156.

106. See, for instance, “Double Flower Temple” (Shuanghua Miao 雙花廟), in Yuan, Zibuyu, 23: 452.

107. See “The Magistrate of Pingyang” (Pingyang Ling 平陽令), 2. See also “True Mr. Bao Change into Fake One” (Zhenlong Tu Bian Jialong Tu 真龍圖變假龍圖), 9, which is a story about the judicial mistakes of a strict official who wrongly accuses an adulterer of murder and concludes with a popular sarcastic song against him to “urge those officials governing the people in the world, not to be proud of themselves and be excessively bold on the basis of their respectableness and moral loftiness” 寄言人世司民者，莫恃官清膽氣粗.

108. Yu Yingshi (Xiandai ruxue lun, 1–59), cited by Anthony Yu, “Enduring Change,” 61.