Study On Female Consciousness In Ji Lanyun’s Poems In The Qing Dynasty

During the Qian-Jia-Dao period of the Qing Dynasty,women’s literary creation was prosperous,and the literary creation achievements of Caiyuan in the southern regions of the Yangtze River were the most outstanding.As a female poet who lived in the Jia-Dao period,Ji Lanyun has the dual identities of "talented woman" and "widow".Her works involve a wide range of subjects with a deep ideological dimension,which has great research value in the aspect of female consciousness.Ji Lanyun has created unique and excellent masterpieces even though it is Qing Dynasty Jiangnan area,where countless talented people are born.Ji Lanyun’s work is not only an autobiography of examining herself and recording the life of her boudoir,but also a proof that she has stepped out of her boudoir to explore and accomplish the self-achievement.This article analyzes the female consciousness in Ji Lanyun’s poems from the following three perspectives by means of literature research,close reading,comparative analysis,feminism and Folklore:The first chapter discusses Ji Lanyun’s writing boudoir life and female poetics.Starting from the choice between "boudoir spirit" and "men’s eyebrows",the most common problems in ancient women’s literary criticism,this paper analyzes the aesthetic pursuit and artistic expression of Ji Lanyun’s poetry on this issue.In her traditional boudoir writing,she absorbed the "disposition expression" of women’s poetry and the "literati" of traditional men’s poetry,reflecting the new aesthetic transformation of women’s poetics based on "Qing".The second chapter studies Ji Lanyun’s female inscriptions and female consciousness.The worship of women and frequent exchanges of women’s literature in Ming and Qing literature promoted the germination of Ji Lanyun’s female consciousness.As a talented woman with active thoughts,Ji Lanyun pays attention to the fate of historical women and contemporary women,and has a lot of evaluation and reflection in her epic poems and festival poems.Secondly,this chapter analyzes the connection between Ji Lanyun’s writing women and the consciousness of "being famous".Ji Lanyun uses traditional moral power and literary power to rectify and promote women’s reputation in her poetry,breaking the prejudice of women’s "consciously famous",showing her resistance to the reality that it is difficult for women to leave their families and make achievements in a male-dominated society.The third chapter investigates the theme expansion and female role transformation of Ji Lanyun.From the active concern of Ji Lanyun’s poems to events and characters outside the boudoir family,we examine the development of female consciousness of talented ladies and gentlemen in the Qing Dynasty,analyze the background and personal reasons that Ji Lanyun forms the social habit of paying attention to the outside world,and focus on new Yuefu poetry “Wuzhongyin”inheriting the "Book of Songs" and Bai Juyi’s tradition of satire.The active creation of allegorical poems reflects Ji Lanyun’s increasing sense of social responsibility and female subject consciousness.Taking talented women with special vision like Ji Lanyun as the research object will help promote the establishment of a complete system of women’s literature in the Ming and Qing Dynasties,valuating the development of women’s gender identity and female consciousness in the Qing Dynasty from multiple dimensions,discover the meaning and status of women’s talents in the history of literature,and promotes the development of ancient Chinese women’s literature research.