春秋时期贵族女性的知识来源、知识构成与社会角色

Abstract

According to all kinds of historical records, most aristocratic women in the Spring and Autumn Period had high cultural attainments. The reason that can form a high cultural accomplishment is that must have a relatively fixed source of knowledge. Taken together, there are three main sources of knowledge for aristocratic women in the Spring and Autumn Period: first, the fumu (i.e. the female teacher) with profound cultural attainments; second, the parents, aunts, and sisters; third, the jiugu (that is, the father-in-law and mother-in-law). The knowledge structure of aristocratic women in the Spring and Autumn is relatively complete, and they are familiar with the literature such as Book of Songs, Book of Documents and Book of Change that men study. Because they are familiar with historical facts and classical literature, they can quote Book of Change to predict the good and evil of fate, but also know rites in daily life. In the Spring and Autumn Period, aristocratic women not only participated in politics but also in the creation and dissemination of the literature, played an extremely important role in the Spring and Autumn.