A Study Of Jealous Women Groups In Wei,jin,southern And Northern Dynasties

During the Wei,Jin,Southern and Northern Dynasties,wars continued,regime changes were frequent,and the turbulent political situation made the social environment relatively loose.In addition,the combined effect of various factors such as the decline of Confucianism,the power of clansmen and the further development of ethnic exchanges also promoted the awakening of people’s self-awareness during this period.Women at that time were naturally affected by the background of the times and presented new characteristics.Jealous women are one type of “new”women.The existence of jealous women caused a series of effects.First of all,the jealousy in the wife’s heart vented into evil deeds.This cruel method caused the husband’s dissatisfaction and broke the relationship between the husband and wife.Secondly,the conflict between wives and concubines not only made the family unharmonious,but also led to the thinness of the children in the family,and even shook the country’s foundation in the royal family.Once again,the leakage of such family private affairs also affected the husband’s official career and family reputation.Finally,women’s venting of jealousy aggravated the grievance among women.Most women can only vent their dissatisfaction on their concubines,who are inferior to them.Meanwhile,they have nothing to do with their husbands.However,judging from the general social environment at that time,men still held the right to speak,and most of these women who did not conform to the traditional ritual system were taken to suppress enlightenment measures,and the situation of jealous women was still very difficult.The mainstream outlook on women in the Wei,Jin,Southern and Northern Dynasties inherited the traditional Confucian outlook on women.Because jealous women were very different from the ideal images of women in men,men set their behaviors as evil and prohibited them,and wrote books to promote traditional Confucian ideas.Even the female images recorded in the epitaphs of this period were mainly humble and submissive,taking care of parents in law,and supporting housework.Confucianism run through the life and death of women.In addition,the ruling class educated women in society by setting up two opposite female images of “xianyuan” and “jealous women”,suppressing the awakening of women’s self-consciousness,and attempting to transform the “deteriorated” women of jealous women.The relaxed social environment of the Wei,Jin,Southern and Northern Dynasties on the one hand urged women to awaken,but on the other hand men used their absolute advantages in power to restrict women.Therefore,the jealous women in the Wei,Jin,Southern and Northern Dynasties seemed to be able to vent their dissatisfaction at will,but in fact they were still shrouded in male authority and could not truly control their own destiny.