The Research Of Han Dynasty Confucian Female Education

Han Dynasty was the first gold time in the development history of the Confucian female education. In this time, the Confucian female education was developed bitterly both in theory and practice .Its development was a certainty. Politically, the Confucian ideology was up-holding supremacy and become the guiding ideology in the ideology sphere of state. As an important part of the Confucian theology, certainly, Confucian female education had a development chance. Economically, the steadiness of family was certainly emphasized, because the family was the basic production and consumption unit in Han Dynasty when the small-scale peasant economy was dominant in the structure of social economy. The thought of Confucian female education came certainty under the influence of the comprehensive of Han Dynasty; the Confucian scholars who were in power day by day; the appearance of the new ritual rules under the economic development. Emperor Wu,Emperor Xuan,Ban Zhao; Liu Xiang etc played an important part in the development of Confucian female education.The Confucian female education of Han Dynasty was very distinctive. It came from the source of Pre-Qin Confucian Classics which been utilized creatively by the Confucian scholar on the basis which they succeeded the theory of Pre-Qin Confucian female education. Its development also benefited from the promotion of the two academic meetings which been held by the emperors themselves. In Han Dynasty, the first biography of female was appeared, it was the Biography of Female by Liu Xiang. The first monograph of female education was written by using her own experience as an example, it was the Rules of Female by Ban Zhao. The strengthening education of family and clan, the suppression of the Confucian scholars'public opinions and the double guidance of materials and spirits from government carried out the Confucian female education of Han Dynasty. The influence of the Confucian female education was dual character. Its development filled in the gaps of female, education of school, promoted the steadiness of family and society and accumulated excellent characters of the traditional female. While, it confined the female in boudoir, seriously hindered their all-round development and made many females become victims of the female education.