The Study Of "Lanke Collection Of Seven Geniuses Of Women"

In the late Ming Dynasty,Zhou Zhibiao’s "Lanke Collection of Seven Geniuses of Women"(hereinafter referred to as "Lanke Collection")is a collection of poems compiled by men for women.It reflects the trend of sentiment in the late Ming Dynasty in compilation ideas,and is Projection of Female’s Literature Development of Late Ming Dynasty.This anthology includes 135 poems and 50 contemporary related works of eight women including Feng Xiaoqing,Wang Wei,Yin Renrong,Du Qiongzhi,Liu Xuanzhi,Li Xiu,Xu Ansheng,and She Wuniang in the late Ming Dynasty.(Zhou Zhibiao originally included seven people.Later,Zhou Zhibiao added Liu Xuanzhi’s poems of Palace,so there were eight people in Collection.)As an important drama activist and publisher in the late Ming Dynasty,Zhou Zhibiao’s purpose of compiling "Lanke Collection" is to make authors handing down by anthology.but also showed the position and tendency of the editors.The anthology shows the concern for the lives of the talented women and their individual life consciousness,the progressive consciousness of putting women in the mainstream literature for evaluation,and also shows the acceptance and recognition of female talents at that time in the literary circle.Of course,as a publisher,Zhou Zhibiao will inevitably be affected by the reading interests of the people and business considerations.He will consciously choose some topical talents(such as Feng Xiaoqing,etc.)to arouse readers’ interest,but objectively It has played an important role in the preservation and dissemination of female writers and works.The collected works of talented women in "Lanke Collection" have a wide range of themes.Almost all the creating themes by male writers are involved.These works all have a similar tendency,that is,"Writing inwardly." The female geniuses wrote out the experience of life,the praise of the natural landscape,the attitude toward the surrounding people,and these fully demonstrated the feelings and spirituality of female geniuses.The style of the selected works of seven people in "Lanke Collection" shows the characteristics of affectionateness,no gorgeous language,and fresh-elegant,but also has everyone-self’s characteristics.This makes the "Lanke Collection" has it’s own rich and colorful literary aesthetic value.Secondly,"Lanke Collection" preserves female works,provides opportunities for marginalized talented females to enter people’s vision more widely,and also makes the Collection have a certain documentary value.In short,"Lanke Collection" embodies the inclusive concept of literati who has scholar and merchant’ dual attributes to female’s works,which emphasizes both publicaesthetic orientation and the view of literati;in terms of female culture,.The selection criteria for talent which is the most important aspect instead of the identity of female writers makes Lanke Collection become a projection of the phenomenon of "different identity boundaries are almost dissolving" for woman’s literature and publication trend,and become a reflection of weak consciousness of equality in the late Ming Dynasty.