The Study Of Women's Education In The Tang And Song Dynasty

The education for women in the educational objectives, educational content, teaching methods, teaching materials and other aspects of its own system of education is different from men in ancient China. The main concepts and content of formal education for female (Confucian education for women) has been basically established in the Han dynasty. Women's education during the Tang and Song shows the face of diversity. With the return of the Confucianism and Confucian revival during the middle and late times of Tang dynasty, the ethical and moral education has being strengthen; Good literary education for women is a major feature of the women's education in Tang and Song dynasty. With the developing of economic and the rising of the popular culture, the scope of arts education for women gradually has be expanded; In the officer's family, many women has be in the religious education by religion's belief which is resulting from the diversity ideological. It is a trend that the women's education has integrated into the education of big family in Song dynasty, with the less of the books of women's education. Such diverse characteristics of female education has reflected the social and cultural diversity of Tang and Song Society.。In the course of the Confucianism's changing, the Confucian has reset the women's position in the family. The "feminine virtue" has been stressed by the Confucian. They put the woman into the mode of "home country the world" which is a new level compare with the mode established in the Han dynasty. It is very important to the woman's role shaping to the times later.