≪萬曆野獲編ㆍ婦女≫ 飜譯 및 註釋(2)

Abstract

Wanli yehuobian (萬曆野獲編)is the essay by Shen Defu (沈德符) who lived in the Ming dynasty. Being one of the more complicated works in Ming dynasty, it contains considerable historical value in studying the Ming dynasty. In Wanli yehuobian⋅Funü (婦女) is categorized into two types, where one is as a married woman and records the prudence, womanly values, and evaluation of the lives of the higher class women such as the Empress Dowager, wedded wife and the mother of prime minister; and the other is as Jinü (妓女) and records the words and actions of lower class women. Five of the 23 articles have already been translated and annotated. In this book, we intend to translate and comment on the first five pages, followed by the four. Funü (23 volumes) is comprised of 21 parts. In this paper 4 of those parts, namely “Shoumu huofu butong (壽母禍福不同)”, “Jiangling taifuren (江陵太夫人)”, “Gelao furen jingbiao (閣老夫人旌表)”, “Jia Tanyang (假曇陽)” were translated and interpreted. In “Shoumu huofu butong”, a mother of a son of high-ranking government posts is living an unhappy life despite her long life. In “Jiangling taifuren”, Shen, Defu wrote an anecdote showing while Zhang, Juzheng (張居正) was in the best of his power, how well his mother, Zhao (趙), was treated due to her son’s power. “Gelao furen jingbiao” is understood the current situation of the Ming Dynasty. They are criticizing the sympathy and climate of the younger generation of high-ranking officials, who took it for granted and received no compensation. “Jia Tanyang” is told that there is a woman who goes around impersonating a fake Tanyangzi (曇陽子). The fake Tanyangzi, who was the love of Wang, Xijue’s (王錫爵) younger brother, ran away from the family’s precious feelings, married another man, and went around impersonating Tanyangzi. In fact, Tanyangzi is a female ascetic who is the second daughter of Wang, Xijue. Through anecdotes, it shows the lives of women in those days that were not covered. However, from the situation where women themselves are at stake, not at the center of the work, but at the time, women’s status shows an age limit.