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What are the four books for women?
Women's Commandments, Internal Training, The Analects of Confucius and Nu Wa Lu are the general names used to educate women in China feudal society.

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Content introduction of "Cultivating Women's Virtue and Virtue: Four Books of Women and Women's Filial Piety": "Four Books of Women" was compiled by Wang Xiang, a beginner in Qing Dynasty. Wang Xiang lived in the Kangxi period and received a good mother education from childhood. His mother's surname is Liu, and she is a virtuous mother. She wrote a book, Female Fan Jielu. Because of her mother's teaching, Wang Xiang attaches great importance to women's moral education. He edited four books, Women's Commandments, Internal Training, The Analects of Confucius for Women and Interpretation of Female Models, which became the required reading materials for women at that time and were widely circulated throughout the country, and were very important teaching materials for women's moral education until modern times.

Women's Commandments was written by Ban Zhao in Han Dynasty. Ban Zhao is a famous female historian, who is called Cao Dajia, so Women's Commandment is also called Zeng Dajia's Women's Commandment. It was Ban Zhao who gave his daughter feudal moral education such as "Three Obediences and Four Virtues". The book is divided into seven chapters: inferiority complex, husband and wife, obedience, women's behavior, concentration, obedience and uncles. In the history of China, it has a far-reaching influence as a teaching material for women's obedience.

"Internal Training" is a book compiled by Queen Xu in order to educate women in the palace during the Ming Dynasty. It is divided into 20 chapters, including female moral standards, female moral cultivation, female moral norms and maternal education. There are 20 chapters in the current edition, such as virtue, self-cultivation, prudence, conscientiousness, diligence, frugality, vigilance, accumulation of kindness, kind relocation, worship of hadith, respect for sages, parents, gentlemen, aunts, sacrifice, mother's documents, kindness, kindness, arrest and treatment of concubines.

The Analects of Confucius was compiled by a female bachelor named Song Ruoshen in the Tang Dynasty. The Analects of Women was also called The Analects of Palace Maids in the Song Dynasty. Song is the author's surname and going to work is her official position. Its style is modeled after the Analects of Confucius. In the past, the Song family, Qin Taichang, the mother of Wei Wei, took the place of Confucius, and Cao Dajia (that is, Ban Zhao) took the place of Yan and Min (according to Old Tang Shu and New Tang Shu Yan and Ran) to ask questions and explain feudal women's morality. If his sister Zhao explains the book. Today, the Analects of Confucius written by Cao Dajia has 12 chapters: starting a career, studying, learning manners, getting up early, serving parents, aunts, husbands, training men and women, managing housework, entertaining guests, being gentle and sober. Sentences are all four-character rhymes, and they are not question-and-answer This is not the original work of Song Like Rochen.

Fan Jielu was written by Liu, the mother of Wang Xiangzhi, a Confucian scholar in the late Ming Dynasty. This book is divided into 1 1 chapters, which are general theory, post-virtue, mother instrument, filial piety, chastity, loyalty, kindness, courtesy, wisdom, frugality and talent. Propagandize the deeds of "a good wife and mother" and "a good wife and mother" in ancient times, praise books such as "Women's Commandments" and "Internal Training", and expound the feudal ethics of women's studies.

From the Eastern Han Dynasty to the late Ming Dynasty, the above four kinds of women's textbooks were published and disseminated one after another. Annotated by Wang Xiang, it will be jointly carved into a set of feudal women's education textbooks by Duowentang in the next four years (1624). Later, this book was reprinted, referred to as "Four Books on Women", which was widely circulated. It mainly preaches feudal ethics that men are superior to women, and discriminates against and oppresses women, which is extremely toxic. Among them, it is still of certain significance to teach people to maintain family harmony, be thrifty, be kind to children, and to infect people with moral examples, and to compile teaching materials with easy-to-understand rhymes.