Monman: To know nothing about ancient women is to know nothing about half of human history
2022-09-26
In the dead of night, it was the golden time for Meng Man, a professor of the School of History and Culture of the Central University for Nationalities, to create. However, Monman, who loves the present, said with a smile that she does not like to travel through, so when she was writing, she was not "close friends" with the ancient people. She was more chatting with readers, trying to become a bridge between readers and the ancient people. Mengman's Female Poetry Class Philosophical Women was published recently. In the book, Mengman combines poetry and women, and takes poetry as a guide, following the order of historical dynasties, tells about the wonderful lives of 28 women behind poetry and the Chinese history behind them. In a recent interview with a reporter from the Beijing Youth Daily, Monman hoped that the book would be liked by young people, especially young women. "Because young people are the future, the more you know, the less you misunderstand history. Young women need benchmarking." As for the specific age standard of "youth", Monman believes that under 40 years old are all "young people" she refers to here. From the perspective of poetry and history, Chinese women's "Zhe" is the selection standard of characters in writing. This class of writing women's poetry is considered by Monman to be back to its original research track, "I have been working on women's history for many years, and I originally had two professional research directions, one is Sui and Tang history, the other is women's history. In 2011, I did a special project on ancient Chinese women's history, and I did a lot of research on women's history. I think this is an opportunity to write 'Women's Poetry Class'." Many women who left their names in Chinese history are talented women. Monman found that their talents were basically literary talents, expressed in poetry, "At that time, my initial idea was to look at women's poetry to reflect their life state. Later, I found that it was a narrow way to look only at talented women's poetry, because the topics they wrote were basically daily life, family, relatives, spring flowers and autumn moon, etc. But I think that in history, women have been growing, they have been growing with the times, if you put them in In history, the horizon has become wider. It is not necessarily women who are writing poetry, but poetry is writing women. So there is now "Monman Female Poetry Class". " The Book of Songs says that "a philosopher becomes a city, and a philosopher woman falls into the city." A man with ability can make a country, and a woman with ability can destroy a country. Monman believes that this is a historical bias, "some women have become cities, and some have fallen into cities. Between the cities, there are more subtle songs than men, and therefore more poems and stories have been produced. I want to use poetry as a big introduction, consider Chinese women from the perspective of poetry and history, and tell about the historical events they have rolled up that constitute history and create history more." After repeated consideration, Monman wrote 50 women. Because of its huge size, Monman's Women's Poetry Class was divided into two parts: "Zhe Fu" and "Bang Yuan". "Zhe" is also Monman's "selection criteria" for characters, "Philosophy is wisdom, and this wisdom focuses on political wisdom. Therefore," The Philosophical Women in Monman's Women's Poetry Class "includes political women, women who have an impact on Chinese politics. It is not necessarily that they are all characters like Wu Zetian, but their existence
Edit：He Chuanning Responsible editor：Su Suiyue
Source：Beijing Youth Daily
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