To Interpret Liuxiang's "Biography Of Lienv" From The Standpoint Of Feminism

The Book "Biography of Lienv(which means enumerating the biography of womenin China's history)"-written by Liuxiang who was the famous scholar in Han Dynasty, isthe first record of the lives of those women who lived in the period from remote antiquityto Hart Dynasty. From the standpoint of Feminism, regarding the issues of beingexpatiated on the article in the view of modernism, the article hereinafter gives theprimary analysis of the background that the book has been written and the routine ofwomen at the time, classifies and expounds the numerous female's figures into three largecategories such as the role of mothers, daughters' and wives' in order to explain theexpectations of Liuxiang or the whole society to those various figures. At last this treatiseconstrue the female's figures from Liuxiang "Biography of Lienv" to various "Biographyof Lienv" in history record of later dynasties in order to discuss that the society ofConfucian shape and standardize women.