Since the founding emperor, Zhu Yuan Zhang (朱元璋), the Ming Dynasty proceeded to promote the education of millions of people. In addition to establishing more schools to increase opportunities for men to be educated, women's education also had its advocates; that is why the scholar's of Imperial Academy (翰林)composed ”Female Commandments” (”女誡”) to teach concubines in the harem. Under influence of the Ming Dynasty, official and private writings for female education became popular, even streaming overseas. In these books, women were taught to promote Chinese women's traditional ”San cong si de” (三從四德) of moral education. Meanwhile, these books discussed the view on women's acceptance of education.After studying these writings about feminine education, the officials and scholars published their view on women's acceptance of education. At the same time, a novel which can reflects the lower middle class people's lives-”San yan er bai” (”三言二拍”), had a number of female characters who contributed another view on female education in the Ming Dynasty. By combining the scholar's opinions and the novel, this provided an immense area for people to reflect upon the issue of women's education during the Ming Dynasty.