清代女作家徐叶昭传记文管窥

Abstract

Chinese ancient female writers　are good at poetry and not good at prose, it is our tradition for two thousand years. But with the research on the chinese ancient female writers to the depth, some female writers who were good at prose were found. The research object of this paper is just a female writer, called Xv Yezhao, who was good at biography. The target of her biography includes her family members, the women very close to her and the women future generations should remember. The content of her biography can be divided into two kinds. The first kind is writing for the women whose social status were lowly but character were noble, the second kind is to express her admiration to these people and commemorate them. Also, Xv Yezhao expounded the principles of writing biography: authenticity and no in one formula. Family education is the most important reason of her writing biography.