A Comparison Between LiYufeng And XuLanXuexuan’s Love Chinese Poetry

Since the founding of nation,Chosen Dynasty has always taken neo-Confucianism as its concept,patriarchy began to dominate the whole society,women were subject to the domination of patriarchy,and became the group being ruled,stipulated and concealed.They have become the sacrifice of the domination of patriarchy.The feudal etiquette of Confucianism has stipulated sacred rules of religious orders for women,putting shackles on them,throwing them into painful cliff.Under the long-term influence of long-term Confucianism and deep-rooted patriarchy domination,women only bore the obligations of helping their husbands and teaching their children as well as giving birth to children.The behaviors of women surrounded by feudal etiquette are completely restricted within the narrow scope of family,deprived of independent personality and the right to participated in the society,meanwhile,they have lost the right of being educated.Middle period of Chosen Dynasty was a chaotic time of huge social,economic and political changes,men still dominated various social areas,and women were forced to center on men with the three obediences and four virtues and seven evils,women acquiring knowledge and entering the society is out of the question.The literary arena of this period centered on men,the force of women literati was weak.Against this background,two women poets appeared,setting women’s foot in man-dominated literary arena.They have written poems as fragrant as fresh flowers,giving voice to women in the cliff of pain,they were LiYufeng and XuLanXuexuan.Both poets were gentries,they were well-educated and created poems and essays due to their relatively free style of their family.They were talented in creating poems.At that time,the society of Chosen Dynasty implemented strict system of wives and concubines,therefore LiYufeng had to be marred to ZhaoYuan as his concubine while XuLanXuexuan was married to JinChengLi as his wife.Although the two women had similar background of birth and growth,their personality and life experience differs,therefore even though the two women longed for love,and many of their Chinese poetry,there are many similarities and differences in terms of their way of love and attitude expressed in Chinese poetry.The thesis adopts the methodology of evidential learning,comparative research and feminism,and carried out in-depth research on the life experience of LiYufeng and XulanXuexuan and the love poems they created.The paper emphatically discusses the sadness and longing of departure shown in the Chinese poetry of LiYufeng,the admiration and complaints for their husbands and the boredom and loneliness of love expressed by the Chinese poetry of XuLanXuexuan,their emotional world such as the admiration and complaint of their husbands,so as to interpret the similarities and differences in the love poems of the two women poets.Namely,the two women poets’share their longing for free life and their love and longing for their husbands,but they showed different attitude of living in terms of their cognition of themselves and the society,and on the issues of loneliness,love and hatred.Comparative research of love Chinese poetry between LiYufeng and XuLanXuexuan is to reveal the sad lot of countless women suffering in the dark Middle Ages with feudal system of wives and concubines and differentiating wives and concubines,further reflecting the inner pain and complaints of women suppressed against the social background of the times,so as to reveal and criticize the feudal social system and its shortcomings causing the social phenomenon.At these levels,the research not only has social realistic significance,but also has certain theoretical value in the history of classical literature of Chosen Dynasty.