The Study On Women's Style In Female Biography In The Official History

Women were written into the history book since the Former Qin. There were also some records about women in "Historical Records" and "History of the Former Han Dynasty", however, these records mainly wrote about royal nobles, more importantly, the emergence of these women in the history biography, some attached to paternal parents, and the other else went along with their husbands'deeds. Thus, it was difficult to have a real performance in their field. Yet, "Female Biography "written by LiuXiang, made the female independent from male biography, which recorded the women's deeds all alone, so that women like men won a independent right to perform in the history books.Fan Ye, following LiuXiang, recorded women's deeds independently. Fan Ye's"History of the Later Han Dynasty", followed Liu Xiang "Female Biography"'s style, to row "Female Biography" in it, therefore, women's deeds were ranked into the official history for the first time. In addition to some short-term dynasties, others all set up" Female Biography". There are twelve histories in official history to row "Female Biography", namely, "History of the Later Han Dynasty", "Jin Shu", "Wei Shu", "Northern History", "Sui Shu", "Old History of the Tang Dynasty", "New History of the Tang Dynasty", "History of the Song ","History of the Liao"," History of the Jin "," History of the Yuan "and" History of the Ming".With two thousand years of social change, although the above all were named "Female Biography", their content had changed greatly. In this paper, I will employ the method to classify women of "Female Biography" in the official history, analyzing and summarizing the importance and characteristics of historians'choice through the main-taking, scheduling changes, in order to examine the inheritance, development and innovation of all "Female Biography" in the content compilation. This paper, with the official history (the 1997 Edition) compiled by ZhongHua Book Company as consultancy, is divided into five chapters:The first chapter introduces the "Female Biography" in the official history firstly, then, in the second and the third section I will examine women's origins and appellation. In ancient China, feudal hierarchy was strict, so, women who had their own specific name or appellation, belonged to the different levels and different origin. Different origins determined their different duties and obligations to bear, different situation and challenges to face, different strategies to response. The appellation contains specific social meaning, carrying real-life identity, status, blood and other extremely complex social and family relationships of the certain title. So, women's origins and appellation would have great relevance.The second chapter focuses on women's piety and the types of the mother, represented them how to support their parents heart and soul and how to teach their children by their words and deeds, when they were in the course of the role transition from daughter before marriage to wife, daughter-in-law and mother after marriage under the stipulations of an agreement, that is, they need not only hold a memorial ceremony for forefathers, but also continue developing the familyThe third chapter reflects women's intellectual and praises. Under the conditions that the pressure of the feudalistic doctrine, the panegyric of the men of the old school and the criterion that women had no scholarship was morals, the intellectual and praises women written in the history book are very few. However, these women have the capacity of discernment, the loyalty to the emperor and consciousness of repaying, also they devoted their life to others and the country bravely and heroically.The forth chapter is mainly about the type of female self-mutilation, self-torture, suicide. I will summarize the manner and part of self-mutilation, the way of self-torture and the measure of the suicide, reflect the sense:for one hand, when they were raped, chased and pillaged, women put up a strong resistance for the chastity, for another hand, when they faced to the continue war and the magnitude rebellion, they put in a lot of high price to keep their virtue.The fifth chapter reviews the miraculous phenomena. The official history made records of the women's piety and praises under the normal complexion, meanwhile, why the historian also wrote some miraculous phenomena? What's the authentic meaning of describing these supernatural and overstated phenomena? This chapter, I will find the author'genuine intention.