Stories of Three Talented Ancient Chinese Women 三位古代才女的故事

广东疾控 · 公众号 · 养生 · 2017-03-09 21:57

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Here are another three talented ancient Chinese women who once impressed in their time, and still affect us in our time.

今天，继续为大家介绍三位才华横溢的中国古代女性，她们不仅影响了过去，在现在仍然发挥着影响力。

Shangguan Wan'er

上官婉儿

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Shangguan was famous for being given an important position by the only female emperor, Wu Zetian of the Tang Dynasty (618-907).

Despite Shangguan's grandfather, Shangguan Yi, being killed for offending Wu, she was highly praised by the female emperor for her literary talent. She served as a key secretary to Wu and was called "a female prime minister" at the time.

Shangguang changed court poetry so that it used more meaningful expressions than empty praise, and further developed her style based on her grandfather's poems.

Quan Tang Shi, or Complete Tang Poems records her 32 poems.

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上官婉儿，因被中国唯一的唐朝（公元618-907年）女皇帝武则天（618-907）重用而出名。

虽然上官婉儿的祖父上官仪因冒犯武则天被其处死，武则天仍高度欣赏她的文学天赋。她是武则天的主要助手，有“巾帼宰相”之名。

上官婉儿改变了宫廷诗的风格，从空洞的赞美转为更有意义的内容，在继承其祖父诗歌的基础上进一步发展成自己独具一格的诗。

《全唐诗》收录了她32首作品。

Su Hui

苏惠

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Su Hui, from the Qian Qin (351-394) was famously known for a handkerchief she made. The textile was embroidered with 841 characters that could form 7,958 poems.

This kind of puzzle-like poem is called hui wen shi, which makes use of the word order of Chinese language marked by a monosyllabic morpheme.

Named Xuan Ji Tu, the handkerchief was originally made by Su to send to her husband, Dou Tao. Su married to Dou at age 16 and the couple was separated due to Dou’s exile. Su waited for her husband to come back and would not divorce him, yet Dou had an affair with another woman.

Sad and angry, Su created the poems on a handkerchief in red, yellow, blue, white, black and purple silk thread and sent to her husband. Dou was deeply moved by the poems and felt guilty for his behavior. He broke up with the mistress and reunited with Su.

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前秦时代（351-394）的苏惠，因编织的一幅锦缎而出名。这幅锦缎绣有841字，可组成7958首诗。

这种像谜语一样的诗叫“回文诗”，利用了汉语以单音节语素为主和以语序为重要语法手段的特点。

命名为璇玑图的锦缎是由苏惠寄给她丈夫窦涛的。苏惠在16岁时嫁给了窦涛，他被发配后，两人就分开了。苏惠不愿与丈夫离婚并等待他归家，但窦涛与另一个女子发生了感情。

苏惠在悲愤之下，以红、黄、蓝、白、黑和紫色的丝线将诗词编织到锦缎上，将其寄给丈夫。窦涛看到后深深感动，亦为自己的做法感到十分内疚。他与情人分手，和苏惠重聚。

Xue Tao

薛涛

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At one time in China, when Xue Tao's name was mentioned, people would think of the famous Xue Tao Jian, a sort of small-size colorful writing paper.

It is recorded that Xue Tao, a talented female entertainer during the Tang Dynasty created this colored paper to write poems. During her time, writing papers were often yellow, yet Xue changed the simple color into different shades of red or green. Later, people made similar colorful paper and named them "Xue Tao Jian".

Xue talented in poetry and music, and had relationships with many well-known poets, including Bai Juyi, Liu Yuxi and Du Mu.

Her poems were not confined to those private feminine feelings and emotions; she also expressed her empathy to soldiers on the frontier.

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