Research On Qing Dynasty's Female Teaching Book

After long term's development and accumulation, Chinese traditional female teaching book wasreached its peak in Qing Dynasty. The number of Qing Dynasty's female teaching book was lager,according to the famous bibliography works such as Si Ku Quan Shu Zong Mu, Qi Shi Gao Yi Wen Zhi,Zhong Guo Cong Shu Zong Lu, Qing Shi Gao Yi Wen Shi Yi and so on, there was more than forty kinds offemale teaching book in Qing Dynasty. At the same time, female teaching book's form was various, therewas moral principles, biography, comprehensive and so on. So it was appllied to all levels of societywomen. With the development of the printing industry and the female teaching books' popularization,female teaching book was spread far and wide in the society. Its has had a profound influence to wowen,family and society.The main ideas of Qing Dynasty's female teaching book were still centered on the traditional ideas,such as Nan Zun Nv Bei, San Cong Si De, Nan Wai Nv Nei, Cong Yi Er Zhong. The contents of QingDynasty's female teaching book were covering all aspects of women's life: As girls, they have to practicethe female virtue to improve their own quality, filial piety parents, harmonious family, be careful theirwords and deeds to keep their chastity; As wives, they have to be honor and take care of their parents in law,worship their husband, harmonious sisters in law, deal with the housework according to the principle ofdiligence and thrift; As mothers, they must be careful to raise and teach their children. In late QingDynasty, with the influx of western new ideas and the deepened of national crisis, women's liberationthought was more and more intense. In this situation, some female teaching books adjusted their thoughtsand contents to keep up with the trend of the times, some new thoughts began to appear in the femaleteaching books, such as advocating women's education, couples equal rights. But the positioning ofwomen's role in these books was still around the traditional view which was virtuous wife and goodmother.Not much innovation in theory, Female teaching book in Qing Dynasty mostly repeted and integratedformer dynasties female teaching book of ideological content. They obviously presented the characteristicsof the master. At the same time, in order to implement enlightenment thought of female teaching book to civil society, and the Qing Dynasty female teaching book, especially the later stages of the Qing Dynastysome female teaching book, in the form of language, and genre were more popular and popularization.The aim of the traditional female teaching book was culture virtuous daughters, wives and mothers tostrengthen families and stable society. And to some extent, they played such a role. But because the religionof chastity concept in Ming and Qing Dynasties, the advocation on chastity no doubt make the femaleteaching book of Qing Dynasty become an accomplice of harm women. Therefore, the female teachingbook was regarded as the chains which were imprising women and the legacy the feudal ethics in a certainperiod. Though there is a lot of dross in Qing Dynasty's female teaching book, but there still reference a lotof ideological content in today, such as filial piety parents, couples support mutually, careful to teachchildren and so on, they are worth us to flourish.