A Study Of Hunan Boudoir Poems In Qing Dynasty

In the Qing Dynasty,Hunan literature was becoming prosperous and many influential literati and scholars emerged.At the same time,the group of boudoir poets rose and developed gradually.They recorded their life,thoughts and feelings with poems and essays,and gained the individual values by disseminating their talents and names,so that women who had been excluded from the feudal mainstream society for a long time were seen in public view as intellectuals.These boudoir poets have multiple ethical identities,they conscientiously play the roles of dutiful daughter and daughter-in-law,virtuous wife,good mother,woman of integrity and so on.What is remarkable is that they creat a narrow literary word in the gap of heavy family responsibilities.Most of the boudoir poets were born in literary families.Boudoir poets receive cultural education for the purpose of cultivating virtuous women in Confucian society,simultaneously,their literary talents were enlightened.These boudoir poets increased their experience,broaden their insights,improve their literary activities and got their long-lost subject consciousness back in some ways,such as forming an associations with friends,writing and replying,learning and teaching.Literary families in Hunan have multiple and complex marriage relationships,which not only consolidates the status of the family,but also brings the exchange,integration and continuation of family learning through the mobility of female members.Boudoir poets play an important role in inheriting family literature tradition.Huang family in Ningxiang with Huang Benji as its core is a well-known literary family in Hunan Province.There are four generations and seven boudoir poets in Huang family,all of them left poems to later generations,and Huang Wanjue is an outstanding poet of the Huang family and even the whole female poetry circle.These tallented women consolidated Huang's reputation and status with their literatural achievements.The radical social changes lead to literatural innovations in the late Qing Dynasty.Hunan boudoir poets who were impacted by the modern thought acceptted diverse creation patterns in literature,traditional sorrowful subjects and elegant styles were changed.Hunan boudoir poets not only wrote about the national misery and patriotism,but also devoted themselves to the revolutions bravely,their subjective consciousness,feminine consciousness and literary achievements had been greatly improved.