Editing Mao Dun (section)

== Marriage and personal life ==
Mao Dun had a typical traditional Chinese marriage. His family got him engaged to the Kong family when he was five years old and he married the daughter of Kong family after he quit from university. After their marriage, the daughter of Kong family had been renamed as Kong Dezhi (孔德沚), and she would go on to assist Mao Dun with his literary and political career during their marriage.<ref name=":1" /> However, Mao had had a two-year long affair with Qin Dejun (秦德君) during his marriage, which is also believed to have effects on his novel ''Rainbow''. In the end, Mao Dun ended the affair and returned to his own family.<ref name=":1">{{Cite journal|last=Li|first=Ji-kai|date=1 November 2004|title=A Study of Lu Xun's and Mao Fun's Friend-making, Love and Marriage|journal=Journal of Hainan Normal University|volume=17|pages=33–40|via=Social science}}</ref>