Women’s Shishi Writings In The Opium War And The Taiping Rebellion

During the Daoguang and Xianfeng years,the Opium war and the Taiping rebellion broke out,the Qing dynasty was plunged into unprecedented turmoil and chaos.In this period,women’s poetry has become more and more concerned with historical events.In the comment system of Chinese classical poetry,although there is a standard of“Shishi”(诗史),it has not yet been established in the field of"poetic spirit"in female creation.But in time of chaos,female poets’reflection on current events is more timely and more autonomous than previous generations.Their works also conform to the essence of the spirit of“poetry as history”.And the spirit of“poetic history”into the study of female writing,for rich women work study Angle,and explore the boudoir links with the outside world,women writing psychology,have very important significance.This article is based on the women’s poetic history in period of Opium war and the Taiping rebellion.According to the chaos time,holding the development venation of the female epic creation,focuses on the study of the history and current affairs of women’s works,complete the reflection on women’s inherent writing concepts.The first chapter discusses the “Shishi ” in female writing.As the basis of the whole text,this chapter,under the framework of previous studies,reaffixed the concept of “Shishi ” and included female works in the field of study of “Shishi ”.Selects the two research dimensions of history and current events,and then combing the poems of female poems and poems before the Ming dynasty,to grasp the origin of the “Shishi ” in female creation.The second chapter mainly explores the undercurrent of female poetry creation before the Opium war.This chapter focus on the female literature heyday of the Ming and Qing dynasties,based on the late Ming dynasty and mid Qing,explore the patriotism and the feeling of loss country in the female “Shishi” work,borrow from such “female scholars”Wang Duan’s chorale history assigned to explore women’s attention in the history of Qing dynasty.The historical events and the perspective of the characters are also changed from the perspective of the historical works,which laid a foundation for the creation of female poetry in the late Qing dynasty.The third chapter studies the “shishi” spirit of the opium war in female works.Two female poets,Chen Yunlian and Yuan Shou,who leave a large number of works in the Opium war were selected as research objects.Chen Yunlian’s poetry pay attention to record for the war and to appraise the hero,poetry since the note in the retained also confirm the historical facts of the Opium war,starting from the individual reading experience,a lot of paraphrase myth and former generation of war,war in the poetry into the rich vivid imagination,and Yuan shou is in the emotional poetry to join admonish satire of the political and current affairs,obscure express their opinion for the war.And then,through the poetry of mourning loved ones,to express complaints about the unrest.The two women,though at the same time,observed the war from different perspectives and had a completely different attitude towards the war.They embody the poetic works of poetic history,which directly prove the autonomy of women in the war,and their active integration into the social public discourse space.The fourth chapter focuses on the creation of women’s poetry in the Taiping period,and examines the women’s understanding and reflection on the conflict during this period.The Taiping rebellion during long time,serious damage to the south of the Yangtze river,directly impact on the female poets,related works retained quantity is more abundant than the Opium war.In this chapter Qian Shoupu,Sun Peilan,Li Changxia,Zheng Lansun as the investigation object.A famous female poet Qian Shoupu in its emotional work analysis for the movement of the Taiping rebellion,and with a large number of reflections on the war,Sun peilan and Li changxia all started from the experience of refuge.The former recorded the war from the perspective of the personal view,and the latter had follow the example of Dufu.Zheng Lansun do not have much works but with a large number of Xu and Ba by others,so this section from the perspective of “others” in the study of women’s history of creation.The fifth chapter for women Shishi writing and its influence in late Qing.Basis on the research in chapter four summarizes the contradiction and sensitivity of women’s Shishi writing in late Qing dynasty.Female poet in the late Qing was later generations for in the feudal society was collapsing as the opposite of “new women” backward,their work is also considered a lack of awareness of patriotism.However,the writer’s works mentioned in this paper strongly refute this view,and even establish their ideological connection with women in the feudal period and women in the “new era”.Women writers as the main body,historical events as clues,not try to reframe the turbulent history of late Qing dynasty in women’s eyes,also did not try to find the secret history and confirm current events,but confirm women involved in history and respond it.With the help of Shishi works for women in the social unrest of the political situation in the independent,and thus to grasp the female history of creative development.