A Study Of Female Filial Piety Writing In The Jiangnan Region Of The Ming Dynasty

Filial piety is the traditional virtue of Chinese virtues and Shoude.It is the most important ethical norm.It has the role of maintaining family harmony and maintaining social stability.The Jiangnan region is the Economic and Cultural Center of the Ming Dynasty.The social development and the strong cultural atmosphere.This place has spared no effort in advocacy for female filial piety.This paper takes the female filial piety text in the Jiangnan region of the Ming Dynasty as the research object.It discusses the components of the Jiangnan female filial text and the identity class of the writers,the specific content of the female filial piety seen by the text,and the differences between the writing between different texts.On the basis of text analysis,this paper objectively discusses the content of female filial piety in the Jiangnan region of the Ming Dynasty and the writing characteristics of the text,and reveals the basic situation of female filial piety the Jiangnan region and the writing characteristics of different texts in order to broaden the breadth of female filial piety in Ming dynasty.This paper is divided into three chapters.The first chapter investigates and analyzes the identity of the writer and the writer.It is believed that the writers of the female filial piety texts in Jiangnan region of Ming Dynasty mainly have four identities,which are blood relatives,old friends,famous officials and literati writers of official organizations.From the perspective of the birth class,there are not only gentry relatives from the middle and upper class of society,but also civilian women in the lower class of society,and even humble beggar and maidservant,among which the number of civilian women is the largest.The second chapter,based on the records of various texts,mainly the local Chronicles,classifies and summarizes the female filial piety in Jiangnan region of Ming Dynasty in terms of life and death.The filial piety for life mainly includes supporting relatives and respecting relatives,treating diseases and rescuing the crisis,passing on heirs,etc.,while the filial piety for death is mainly manifested in doing one’s best to treat and observe funeral rites.The third chapter compares and analyzes the writing of different female filial piety texts in Jiangnan region,and thinks that different types of texts have differences in writing purpose,writing object and writing style.Among them,the official text has strict selection criteria,standard writing format,short length,typical characters,and pays attention to the Confucian traditional moral education;The content of private biography is more detailed,the writing forms are diverse,pay attention to the expression of emotion;Novels and dramas are full of twists and turns,rich in details,popular in language,exaggerated in writing and rich in mystery.Although there are different descriptions of female filial piety in various texts,there are similarities in the role of female filial piety indoctrination.