Ming And Qing Dynasty Women's Education

In ancient China，woman’s education was a serious problem. Women were notallowed to walk out, which made the woman’s education system different from of themen’s education system. After the Qin dynasty, woman’s education concept began tobecome "San Cong Si De", and which had become the subject of traditional woman’seducation concept. The traditional woman’s education had achieved greatdevelopment in The Ming and Qing Dynasties.The main organization form of woman’s education mode includes mainly socialeducation and family education. In the Ming and Qing Dynasties, the ruling class paidattention to woman’s enlightenment. They guide the woman virtue with the policy andthe law; In the local, the people restricted the woman’s behavior; And at the family,the old man used family law to reinforce a woman action. In the degree of familyeducation, a direct way of woman’s education is carried out by their parents and oldrelatives. Good conditional family will teach their daughter using professional teacher.In addition, in the last half of Ming dynasty, there were many woman’s schoolexisting in a certain extent. All of this lay the foundation for the emergence of modernwoman education school.In the degree of education content, moral education was placed in the mostimportant position. Each class paid a special attention to the cultivation of woman’svirtue accomplishment. They emphasized that the woman should develop atemperament and proceed the standard virtues with caution, Woman not only paidattention to moral chastity and also paid attention to woman’s filial piety teaching.Mother Teresa teaching can also be seen as a main content; at the same time, marriageeducation is taught to woman that they should be careful about marriage. And at thebeginning of the bride married women should also have a specialized systematiceducation; They emphasize that woman should be loyal for her husband for a lifetime,and they should not easily remarried; At this time, on the one hand, they paid attentionto the training of woman’s thrifty thought. On the other hand, they taught woman learn labor skills, such as needlework and ZhongKui.The woman’s education in the Ming and Qing Dynasties is mixing the educationthoughts in thousands of years. For example, the female teaching materials appearedconstantly, and the education content are more perfect; In education thought, thecontrol of the feudal moral become constantly strengthened. At the same time, somecriticism of voice also appeared towards the so-called orthodox Confucian advocatesof female teach.Woman’s education developed a lot in the Ming and Qing Dynasties. The mainreason of this is due to the family and the inevitable result of social development. Andthe advocating of the ruling class’s also is the important reason.