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The Daily Life Of Village Women In Morden Times Jiangnan

Posted on:2011-08-16Degree:MasterType:Thesis
Country:ChinaCandidate:W ChengFull Text:PDF
GTID:2195330338962570Subject:Special History
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Wu Ge(Songs of wu) presents the face of underlying social in Jiangnan,as the bottom part of the community,most of the females is flat folk masses. Wu Ge is a vivid mirror refeclting the daily life of Jiangnan village women ,through which the unique Jiang Nan village women's daily lives characteristics can be found.First of all, the living labor of Jiangnan village women plays an important position in the family economy. Their advance and retreat in agricultural result from the changes of acreage and the return for labor under different specific circumstances;They have a substantial amount of revenue in female Needlework,which had a major impact on their economic status in the family,their domestic work provided guarantee and protection for their family members in the production and life.Second, their social contacts exceed the barriers of confucianism, which is reflected in the breakthrough of communication space and the interaction between the different people.In the communication space, the village women are not confined within boudoir, but widely participated in social interaction within the region, The women actively took the initiative to integrate themselves into the in the daily production work, festivals and leisure activities in the village,by which form a breakthrough in female contact which is virtually required by traditional ethical space, also is a challenge to norms of unreasonable propriety.the village women ignore the propriety of rules and prohibitions in the contacts with many interactive objects, and fighted with the unreasonable norms bravely.Village women try to seek independence and equality in their contacts with parents and parents-in law, which is the challenges to seniority of the order; They fighted for the inequality between relationship on many couples , which is also a struggle on the ethical code of ethics of the couples ; That they are enthusiasticly pursuit of "personal feelings" from their own emotional needs is a form of rejection to the norms of propriety,which is called self-awareness.Again, their ideas reflected a kind of bud in self-consciousness. They looked forward to get the autonomy for their love and marriage; their values reflect the differences with the mainstream ideology of interest; their religious beliefs is more focused on the pursuit of life. From living labor, the social interaction and the concept of life in the Jiang Nan village women,which can show modern features in the daily life that differ in characteristics of the elite women's lives. It is not pure mysticism, but from the bottom of women's real life.
Keywords/Search Tags:jiangnan, modern times, WuGe, village women, daily life
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