The Female Writing Carnival

During the history of female literatures in China, there are two groups of women who are engaged in writing and communicate with each other in different times: one is women of the inner chambers (which is always called as GUDCOU) in the area of JIANNAN in MING and QING dynasty; another is women witting and releasing their works through Internet nowadays. In each group, a large number of women gather together in a specific space and time to pursue their interests in writing, and form a kind of completely female creation atmosphere. However, the creation of women in MING and QING dynasty fails to attract most attention in academic field since their creation have no significant changes in style and content compared with the creation of some famous ancient women such as Li Qingzhao and Zhu Shuzheng, as a result their creation are always categorized in Inner Chamber literature. As to the female creation from Internet, most scholars incline to give their definition to Internet literature, and few of them make research into the large number of female writers and their creation from prospect of gender.There are several hundreds years' gap between the creation of GUIXOU in MING and QING dynasty and the creation of metropolitan women in Internet, and both shared totally different cultural background because contemporary culture has undergone radical changes from traditional culture in China after enlightenment of "5 ·4 cultural movement" and modernization. However, these two female creations still show many similar and even the same characteristics in several aspects: women in groups communicate with each other to be engaged in writing; literature and creation act as kind of entertainment and interest to these female writers; most of them are unprofessional writers; during the process of creation and publication, they always use nicknames to differentiate the identity in real word; their works show the same...