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The Song dynasty Wushi Zhongkuilu (Chinese: 吳氏中饋錄; pinyin: Wushi Zhoungkuilu), the earliest known culinary work written by a Chinese woman, reveals the wide variety of dishes essential for daily consumption and the significant amount of curing, pickling, and preservation done by women in households at the time.
The Four Beauties or Four Great Beauties are four Chinese women who were renowned for their beauty. The four are usually identified as Xi Shi , Wang Zhaojun , Diaochan , and Yang Yuhuan . [ 1 ] Among them, Diaochan is a fictional character while the rest have been greatly embellished by legend .
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
Collection of Poems by Famous Women: Thirty-six Volumes (edited by Chung Sing-chi). Late Ming Dynasty (1621–1644) [名媛詩歸﹕三十六卷(鍾惺點次)。明末(1621–1644)] [12] Ancient and Modern Women's History: 12 volumes, Poetry Collection: 8 volumes, with Details of Surnames and Characters: 1 volume (edited by Zhao Shijie, Ming ...
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."
Wu Zhao: China's Only Woman Emperor. Pearson Education. Shu-fang Dien, Dora (2003). Empress Wu Zetian in Fiction and in History: Female Defiance in Confucian China. Nova Publishing. Explores the life of Empress Wu Zetian and the ways women found to participate in public life, despite the societal constraints of dynastic China.
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.