Song Dynasty Female Training Thinking

Women are the important members in the family, and they're often considered as the vital factors of families'stability and prosperity. So the female education served as the part of the whole Confucianism education in ancient times. When it comes to Song Dynasty, lots of works mainly on women'behaviors and ideal role, namely Nuxun, had emerged. And these works supply us with valuable recordings on the female status of Song society.General speaking, there is an opinion that Song's women are the worst miserable group. In fact, compared with Yuan-Ming-Qing Dynasties, women's situation in the Song isn't bad and cruel, and they still had their own rights and freedom. It must be indicated that Song'Confucianists'instructions on women just paid a little impact.Based on this point, in order to get more complete understanding about Song's female, the essay takes the documents of female instructions as the main material for analyzing Song scholars'women ideas. It also study the Female Biographies in the Song History as well as women's sorted of deeds. It aims to makes us understand the real situation of Song's women.