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Lessons for Women (Chinese: 女誡), also translated as Admonitions for Women, Women's Precepts, or Warnings for Women, is a work by the Han dynasty female intellectual Ban Zhao (45/49–117/120 CE). As one of the Four Books for Women, Lessons had wide circulation in the late Ming and Qing dynasties (i.e. 16th–early 20th centuries). Ban Zhao ...
Sketch of a Model for Women (Nüfan jielu [d]) by Madame Liu [2] In Lessons for Women, Ban Zhou, China's foremost female scholar, expounds on general principles and philosophical points. In Women's Analects, the Songs illustrate these principles with practical examples relevant to everyday life. [3] In Model for Women, Lady Liu retells the ...
Ban Zhao as depicted in the Wu Shuang Pu (無雙譜, preface 1690) by Jin Guliang. Ban Zhao was born in Anling, near modern Xianyang, Shaanxi province. At age fourteen, she married a local resident named Cao Shishu and was called in the court by the name as Venerable Madame Cao (曹大家).
The Three Obediences and Four Virtues (Chinese: 三 從 四 德; pinyin: Sāncóng Sìdé; Vietnamese: Tam tòng, tứ đức) is a set of moral principles and social code of behavior for maiden and married women in East Asian Confucianism, especially in ancient and imperial China. Women were to obey their fathers, husbands, and sons, and to be ...
Ban Zhao, who educated and advised Deng Sui during her reign. She was the first female Chinese historian and philosopher, and she wrote Lessons for Women, a guide on women's conduct and behavior during, before, and after marriage. Deng would have most likely read Lessons during her lifetime.
The Taliban has banned women from visiting one of Afghanistan’s most popular national parks.. Afghanistan’s acting minister of virtue and vice , Mohammad Khaled Hanafi, said women have not ...
Because its preface reveals the intended audience to be the young women in Ban Zhao's family, this text is also regarded as the earliest work exclusively designed to meet the needs of Chinese women's education. It served as inspiration for later female textbooks and was integrated in the Four Books for Women as well. In terms of its content ...
The Plainedge District has a K-12 enrollment of 2,823 that is 86 percent white, 8 percent Hispanic and 5 percent Asian; according to one parent letter shared to social media, though, a chief ...