A Study Of The Female Literature In The Qing Dynasty

Traditional female teaching books has a long history in ancient China, this kind of books mainly refers to regarded the ancient women as education objects, affect their moral and life concept and influence their outlook on life and values. Qing Dynasty is an important period of development and perfection about ancient women teaching books, the traditional female teaching books of this period not only inherited the tradition female books but also had many new development in article styles、education contents、thoughts and ideas and the education objects, etc. At the same time, such as Chenhongmou and Wangxiang had created the new terms of writing styles of a collection of several classic female teaching books in their works——The Traditional Standard of Female Educate and Female Four books; in terms of education contents which largely continue to praise highly on "wifely submission virtue、patriarchal and stick to chastity " or other feudal female teaching ideas, but there is no lack of some outstanding teaching ideas such as "self-denial and self-effacing、be generous、frugality in household management" and other excellent traditional ideology, however, in the late Qing Dynasty, with the invasion of western artillery and culture, the traditional female teaching books had mixed with modern science and democracy thought of progressive characteristics; In the aspect of education objects, with the increasing number of female teaching books both in quantity and category and the development of the printing press, this kind of books had presented a top-down migration phenomenon, female teaching books to the lower labor women’s popularization which further promote the spread and development of female teaching books in Qing Dynasty.As a special type of literature, ancient female teaching books are important parts of Chinese traditional culture, so the research on Qing Dynasty female teaching readings is also one of the basic subjects for the ancient traditional culture research. This article will put female teaching readings in Qing Dynasty as the research object, mainly use documentary method, case analysis method and comparative method to collecting, sorting and analysis for some spread widely female readings in Qing Dynasty; And from the perspective of education system of Qing Dynasty women four virtues in teaching readings and analyze the motherly education, sort out the female teaching reading in the aspect of education for women’s specific requirements and methods; And at the same time analysis and study the female teaching readings in the number of species, quality of content, the importance and propagation process in different unique; Finally summarized the content and the characteristic of the Qing Dynasty female teaching readings how to the influence of women at that time and the value of contemporary women.Female teaching readings in the Qing Dynasty is essentially in order to develop virtuous of women under the feudal ethics, and in a certain extent this kind of readings had played a role to promote family stability, and society harmoniously, so female teaching books had widely promoted by the ruling class and the upper society in Qing Dynasty; But the chastity concept was emphasized extremely in the Qing Dynasty, which leads to the female teaching readings in narrow scope and the teaching content is limited, undoubtedly become oppressive imprison to women development accomplice; But in the modern society,we still have to treat Chinese traditional culture teaching readings with the view of history, objective stance and objective attitude,only in this way can we reject the dross and assimilate the essence.