A Study On Awaking Of Women' Self-Consciousness In Some Extent About Educated Ladies And Courtesans Of Song Dynasty

This article will focus on the educated ladies and courtesan of Song, through the system description of their daily life and poetry to express their consciousness of women, making their independent personality to show.This paper describes the Song educated ladies and the courtesan's fundamentals. Shows the composition of the main educated ladies of Song, who mainly came home officials, businessmen, families, and enlightened landowners, rural gentry families and literati family. The domestic life of Song educated ladies including:household chores,mothering,family business management and education; the participation of social activities are:travel to participate in festivals and religious activities as well as some recreational activities. The Song of prostitutes, the women described the three major sources:the war was captured female, offenders girls of the family and the daughter of poor families. The prostitutes of Song are divided into three categories: the official prostitution, home prostitution and private prostitutes. The mainly daily life of Song prostitutes is dancing to drinking.Followed by the feminist discourse of the Song educated ladies and the courtesan of female consciousness and performances,from their participation in the practice of social life, and in their own words for the fate of the struggle in demonstrating their awareness of different women. Song educated ladies in the family's activities, has also began to participate in social life, such as participating in festivals, religious travels and some entertainments.Participating in social activities in the course of their increased knowledge and expanded horizons pleasure of the body and mind for the awakening of female consciousness laid the foundation of objective reality. Song was an era of great prosperity and cultural terms, in addition to male poets, the Song of the women also wrote the lyrics of the main force. Educated ladies in the words of the Song Dynasty have expressed their feelings on the unique nature of love, longing marriage, land looked forward to a better life and future and destiny of the country's deep concern. Song feminist term the main form of expressing their feelings and the way they enjoy in the word to express their true feelings and their independent personality. Song courtesans to face their own life situation, they want to get rid of welcome sent to the gloomy life, eager to return home, so they making in their own words also express the positive efforts of their own destiny and fight for a better life, love and marriage longing. This article also conducted a comparative study of the awakening of female consciousness in Song educated ladies and the courtesan,analysling the awakening of female consciousness of their similarities and differences.Secondly, the political reasons, economic reasons and causes of social and cultural are the causes of the awakening of female consciousness. Politically, the rise of the Song Dynasty women's imprisonment is not too great and the Song festivals to allow women outside the home to participate in social activities such as religious celebrations.Tang open society has also affected women in the Song Dynasty.Economically, the Song also contributed to the prosperity of the commodity economy, broad participation of women in social production activities outside the home.They are in the food industry, textile industry and so have its own unique contribution. Economic development and promote progress of science and technology for culture, laid the objective basis for communication.Burgeoning social and cultural sectors of the public culture of the Song makes a variety of forms, Song, then this can be spread, vivid image of feminist literature in Song Dynasty and the courtesan female consciousness. Educated Ladies and the courtesan are a good education, improve their literacy, their sense of individual personality, sense of self-esteem and confidence are greatly enhanced.Song Educated Lady and the courtesan female consciousness in all aspects of the community had a broad and profound impact.The first is the impact of the Song literati class. Song feminist Although responsibility is to a wife, mother, but they no longer blindly obedient husband and son but a positive play their individual initiative, not passively live at home, but give full play to their wisdom, their performance has been significantly beyond the traditional "female training", "Female Education" on their requirements. Song courtesan female consciousness inspired to write the Song Dynasty poet male passion. Second Song Educated Lady and the courtesan female consciousness in the Song Dynasty general women's clothing, had a certain influence. Third, the Song Dynasty turbulent situation, some women began to get out into torrents of defending the homeland, expressing deep concern about the peril of the motherland, the patriotic consciousness of the awakening of female consciousness Song important part. Song courtesans arealso widely involved in the process of selling liquor, the increase in tax revenue for the state contribution to their strength.Song Educated Lady and the courtesan female consciousness in terms of contemporary society which is significant, although the female consciousness is not exactly the same as women in our modern sense of consciousness, but this does not prevent us from its positive significance. We should see women in the Song as the expression of their own emotional lives of women, on the understanding of society, which is the embodiment of their independent personality. We should see in the contemporary women's social status is despite the increase, there is a degree of economic base, but the social sex between men and women caused by "sexual communication" still exist. How to make male and female harmony and common development, common as people realize their own value, it still is a major topic of today's society.Song Educated Lady and the courtesan consciousness of the female is confined to a particular political,economic,culture and major historical and social environment for women does not provide enough ample room for development, their awakening of female consciousness is only a degree of awakening still only at the embryonic stage.