As an is relatively independent narrative units, adoptive narrative played a role on the excavations of related character�s secret psychological as well as image building. In addition, through the construction of renamed misunderstanding, adoptive narrative created the effect of the legendary narrative techniques. As a projection of adoptive events in real⁃life, the frequent emergence of adoptive narrative in novels manifested novelists� interest in adoptive events, and people�s anxiety in the adoption events. A large number of narratives about “step⁃surname returns to original surname” could be viewed as a kind of anxiety soothing through literary fiction.%过继叙事作为明清白话小说中相对独立的叙事单元，对小说的艺术表现起到了重要作用。过继叙事不仅是推动小说故事展开的动力和营造传奇效果的艺术手段，在发掘与之相关人物的隐秘心理及形象塑造上也起到了独特作用。另外，过继叙事在小说中的频繁出现，也反映了当时人对现实生活中过继关系的焦虑。明清白话小说中大量有关继子“复姓归宗”的叙述，在很大程度上可以看作是一种通过文学虚构平复心理焦虑的“需要”。
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