Abstract:In Ming and Qing family fiction, the main characters changed from men to women, and images of women were reshaped, so gender relationship appeared as masculine recession and weakening, and women surpassing men. The phenomenon can be called “strong female, weak male”, which meant the subversion of orthodox of male superiority order. It not only showed the new style of literary development, but also indicated the social evolution, and revealed the life background of particular era and cultural mentality of male intelligentsia.