Ban Zhao And Female Commandments Re-analyzed

Content:BanZhao who is a talented woman in the Eastern Han Dynasty is a typical and outstanding representative person in the history of ancient China. Her talents mainly embody in the areas of history, politics, literariness, education and others, showing her mettle and making a name for herself at that time. In the area of history, BanZhao who carried on her father and brother's dying wish continues to write "HanShu" and spreads it after the historical records finished; In the area of politics, she enters palace because of continuing to write the historical records and participates in the complicated political life during the Eastern Han, bringing forward lots of reasonable proposals to the administrative rulers; In the area of literariness, HanFu which is made by BanZhao leads the literary trend at that time, showing her extraordinary literary talent; In the area of education, she advocates vigorously the development of educational undertaking in the Han Dynasty as a palace woman teacher and pays great attention to the women's educational problem.BanZhao's masterpiece is called "NvJie", which has always been regarded as a classic work about ethical and moral education of female family in ancient China. It contains more than 1,700 words, under the premise of affirming the "men's superiority to women offer" concept, providing clearly that a woman should possess the demeanor and moral conduct. These requirements and standards will be strictly bound women within the family and play a good "housewife" role. This thesis intends to comprehensively interpret the text through excavating the ideological origins which have been formed, then making an objective and dialectical view of the book. This paper chiefly applies to analytical and comprehensive approach, combining with the dvelopment trend of women nowadays, putting forward reasonable proposals in order to make the effective integration of traditional and modern as far as possible.This paper is divided into five parts:The first part is an introduction. This part introduces the purpose and significance of topic and summarizes the current situation on which scholars are researching about this topic at present, while integrating with ideological history and cultural history, trying to overall and objectively comment on the previous research results and striving to dialectically analysis and recognize the historical issues. The second part describes BanZhao's family life experience and outstanding achievements as a talented woman in East Han Dynasty. Choosing her illustrious family life experience as an entry point and recognizing this talented woman from a view with strong family tradition to illustrate that it is inseparable that BanZhao shows her talent and wisdom in history, politics, literariness, education and other fields with her family background and education.The third part emphasizes "NvJie" which has been regarded as a classic work about women education. Its publishing which has deep and complex causes and backgrounds is the result under the mutual impact of subjective and objective multi-factors. Then expanding the interpretation of its text and revealing the inner logical link among articles.The fourth part dialectically analysises "NvJie" which gives rise to profound influence. With objective and calm attitude, discoursing and evaluating both from the positive and negative, affirming reasonable sections and discarding outdated components. In addition, com(?)ining with the development trend of women nowadays, setting forth its practical significance.The fifth part is the paper's conclusion. Pointing out that we can't use modern person's vision and perspective to demand BanZhao. At the same time, "NvJie" as the ancients left us a heritage, we should cherish it and analysis and evaluate sensibly.