A Study On Cause、Content And Characteristic Of LiuXiang’s Female Moral Education Thoughts From Biography Of Varied Women

LiuXiang is an important politician and thinker in XiHan Dynasty.He composed a lot of articles in his life, such as the presentation ofHundred Schools and so on. In his late years, he devoted topersuade the Emperor so that made him understand the gains andlosses in this Dynasty. Biography of Varied Women is a typical caseamong his works, which finally had a deep and great influence onthe female moral education in the feudal society. LiuXiangconsidered that The female indeed do work for the development ofsociety. He said that the country relied on the strength of Thefemale, which was just right to strongly support the fact that Thefemale went into different kinds of position and made ancontribution to the development of the country. Owning to hisknowledge about The female, he not only required women to becaregivers for husband, children and aging parents, also claimedthat women should use their brilliance to do something good for thesociety. The thoughts are useful for our national education.This paper is mainly to study on the LiuXiang’s female moraleducation thoughts of Biography of Varied Women from five aspects.The first part describes the significance of this research, review,research methods and ideas.The second part is to expound the background of LiuXiang’sthoughts, namely how the female moral education thoughts formed.Actually a formation of the thought must be have a tightly relevanceto contemporary political and economical condition, and relevant tothe scholar’s experience as well. Therefore this part mainlyanalyses where the female moral education thoughts from by theaspect of the entire social political and economical condition,LiuXiang’s family culture status, and his political career experienceand so on.The third part is the most important chapter in this paper, whichdetailedly analyze the female moral education thoughts. LiuXiangattached importance to the female moral education, who hadformed the thoughts about the women’s moral standard involved indifferent identification, including daughter, wife and mother, whichcovered a woman’s lifetime.The forth part is to analysize the characteristic of LiuXiang’sfemale moral education thoughts and assess it. Biography of VariedWomen is the first female moral book in the history which had adeep influence on female moral education. At the same time,criticizing the over-hashed education thoughts, which based on thesupreme male authority, harm to the women’s physical and mentalhealthy.The final part is the conclusion of the paper. LiuXiangconsidered that women should pay attention to the development of the country, respect parents and manage the relations betweenseniority and herself in a mild way, be strict with herself and set agood example to her children and so on. These moral standards arenot unique, but they are difficult to do. These thoughts are very old,but they are still useful to our modern female moral education.