The Study Of Wang Shizhen And Female Literature

For the prosperity of ancient Female Literature in the Ming and Qing Dynasties, an important factor was the male scholars’ promotion. They support women to learn and encourage they writing. It gradually evolved into a social trend and cultural atmosphere. Wang Shizhen was a outstanding poet and writer in Qing Dynasty,he Communicate with women in literature and art. As a literature leader, he promoted the development of Female Literature in the Qing dynasty.The first chapter is the introduction, points out the significance of topic and the present research situation at home and abroad. The second chapter is the definition of women’s literature.The prosperity of commodity economy, the social individuality liberation, the development of printing and publishing industry and the encourage of male scholars are the main reasons of Female Literature prosperity.It shows two major new features: one is young women deliver they owe conception, another is the form of the family team and group.The second chapter is about the life experience and literary works of Wang Shizhen, pointing out that he record a lot of women in his literature works, which provides the support to analysis. And then introduce the Wang Shizhen’s literature view, he advocated the verve theory, view it as the highest principle to make comments on literature and encourage his followers. The influence of Wang Shizhen’s literature view is far-reaching. It inspired women writers. They consciously accept the view to writing,which form an influence and acceptance interaction field. The third chapter discuss the five ways of Wang Shizhen to promote the women’s literature : award and note they poetry, writing for women’ potey works,exchange with each other,collect and edit their works,communicate with female artists. And then explore the characteristics of women’s works, from two aspects of content and art.We can see that they accepted and applied the Wang Shizhen’ literature view, which we have discussed in second chapter. The fourth chapter summarize the Wang Shizhen’s contributions,give him the correct evaluation to promote the development of women’ literature.