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The name of the passage has become a common Chinese idiom, and has spread into Western languages as well. It appears, inter alia, as an illustration in Jorge Luis Borges' famous essay "A New Refutation of Time", and may have inspired H. P. Lovecraft's 1918 short story "Polaris".)
One of the earliest references to qualities later associated with the canonical Four Great Beauties appears in the Zhuangzi.In one chapter, the women Mao Qiang and Lady Li are described as "great beauties" who "when fish see them they dart into the depths, when birds see them they soar into the skies, when deer see them they bolt away without looking back".
One of her famous works is "The Red Rose and the White Rose." [13] Eileen Chang is a uniquely charming writer in the history of modern Chinese literature. Her life-long creation involves novels, essays, and script reviews, among which novels have achieved the highest achievement.
Song Ruoshen (died 820) primary author of Analects for Women, one of the Four Books for Women; Song Ruoxian (772-835) secretary and record keeper for Emperor Jingzong; Song Ruoxun (fl. 8th Century) one of the five Song Sisters; Song Ruozhao (761-828) poet, biographer, annotated her sister Ruoshen's Analects for Women; Su Hui (4th Century) poet
Xu Hui (Chinese: 徐惠; 627–650) was a female Chinese poet, "the first of all women poets of the Tang, an individual scarcely even noted in traditional literary history... but the only one of the thirty-plus 'empresses and consorts'...given biographies in the official Tang histories to have any of her own writings quoted there."
This book follows the lièzhuàn (列傳 "arrayed biographies") biographical format established by the Chinese historian Sima Qian.The word liènǚ (列女 "famous women in history") is sometimes understood as liènǚ (烈女 "women martyrs"), which Neo-Confucianists used to mean a "woman who commits suicide after her husband's death rather than remarry; [a] woman who dies defending her honor."
The Chinese Youth represent an active, vital force in China, to be drawn upon. At the same time, it is necessary to educate them, and for the Youth League to give special attention to their problems and interests. 31: 7: Women: Women represent a great productive force in China, and equality among the sexes is one of the goals of communism. The ...
King Goujian of Yue was once imprisoned by King Fuchai of Wu following a military defeat. As a result, the state of Yue became a tributary state to the State of Wu.In a clandestine effort to plot his revenge, King Goujian's minister Wen Zhong suggested training exceptionally beautiful women and offering them to King Fuchai as a tribute, well aware of Fuchai's weakness for beautiful women.