Study On Excellent Women Poets In Qing Dynasty

The produce of poetry by women poets in Qing Dynasty was a spectacular and unprecedented event, with so many creators and works nourishing at that time. Women poets in Qing Dynasty, as a special group, should gain attention and value in both Chinese literature and the women history in ancient China.The paper, based on a few studies of the former researchers, aims to orient this group in history of literature, through combing out their lives and analyzing their masterpieces, with the help of the limited original materials. The paper has three chapters in its body. The first chapter introduces the spectacular event of women poetry in Qing Dynasty and explains the reason of such a phenomenon at that time when a large group of women poets became publicized as the result of social environment, women education and cultural atmosphere. The second chapter studies the living conditions of the women poets from both the surroundings and their inner worlds, with the former involving the family education, and the culture and politics of that time, and the latter covering self awareness from the group of lower social position, of traditional ideas and of dismayed hearts to the members longing to cut the chains of Feudal ethics and rites and attempting to realize it with the support and help of Enlightened people and the influence of their fresh ideas. The third chapter analyzes, from the themes and artistic styles, the works of such a group of women poets, particularly the study of their different literary styles and their energetic styles displayed.The narrow living space of those women poets, chained by Feudal ethics and rites, limits to some extent their creation which lack on the whole broad feasibility and deep ideological nature, as well as historical depth and performance dynamics. Compared with the previous dynasties, however, those women poets gained rather free life pattern with broader views and more consciousness of creation. Consequently, in the world of Qing poetry came into being a group of such excellent women poets as Xucan, Xionglian, Heshuangqing, Wuzao, Guchun, Lvbicheng and Qiqin. Because of their role of carrying the task, those excellent women poets play am important and never-to-be-forgotten part in Chinese history of literature.