1954 September 15, the first national people's congress was held in Beijing. The female representative appeared on the political stage as the master of the new China.

Looking back on the vicissitudes of the past century, we are delighted to find that the fate of women in China has undergone profound changes, ending the situation of being exiled by social history for thousands of years, and writing a chapter on the overall image of women for the first time in the history of civilization.

In the patriarchal society for thousands of years, women have been living at the bottom of society. They have no right to participate in political, educational and social life. The most tragic thing is women's foot binding. The formation of a pair of feet often takes years to wrap, "a pair of feet, a jar of tears", and the happiness of a lifetime is ruined by these feet. /kloc-The appearance of Tianzu Club at the end of 0/9, along with the promotion of girls' schools, opened the curtain to break the bad habit of foot-binding and liberate women's body and mind.

At the beginning of the 20th century, Cai Yuanpei and others set up the China Education Association in Shanghai, putting the establishment of girls' schools on the agenda. 1907, the Qing government carried out the new policy in the case of internal troubles and foreign invasion. In the field of education, the statutes of girls' schools run by the Ministry of Education and girls' normal schools run by the Ministry of Education were promulgated, and women's education was formally incorporated into the national education system for the first time. In the early years of the Republic of China, women's education in China began to connect with women's career. This move further broke through the concept of educating housewives, enabled women to enter a broader field, expanded their employment choices, and thus improved their ability to adapt to society and make a living independently. This is of great significance to fundamentally promote the development of human resources in China and lay the foundation for improving women's social status.

Education is the prelude of China Women's Liberation Symphony. Intellectual women began to stand at the forefront of anti-feudalism as challengers, showing their spiritual resistance to feudal families and gender discrimination and their enthusiasm for participating in social discussions, thus shaping their new selves in their new lives. We can see that after the May 4th new cultural trend of thought, women's concept of love has undergone great changes. They are no longer looking for a lifelong dependence and Qi Mei, but looking for their own spiritual partners, so that men and women can get along equally. At the same time, the compilation of the civil code, which began in the late Qing Dynasty, also corrected the legal inequality between the two sexes. As a gender group, women have changed from the humble half to the weak who enjoy legal protection. Accordingly, women's rights to participate in employment, political participation and other fields have also improved. Women in several southern provinces took the lead in gaining the right to participate in the market. Hunan woman Wang Yi 192 1 was elected as a provincial councillor, which is also the first time in the history of the world women's movement.

The feat of women's participation in the national liberation struggle in the 20th century is even more epic. 1903, female students studying in Japan organized the first patriotic women's group-* * * Love Autonomy Association. Qiu Jin's "Letter to 200 Million Women Compatriots in China" and the poem "Encourage Women's Rights" calling for being a "national heroine" have become the clarion call to encourage women to advance wave by wave. In the same year, the first monograph on women's issues-Jin Yi's Women's Clock was published, and the author shouted the slogan "Long live women's rights" for the first time.

With the spread of Marxism and the establishment of China Producers' Party, some women took part in the revolutionary struggle to transform China and the world. China producers Xiang Jingyu and Yang Kaihui are outstanding representatives of these women who have devoted themselves to their ideals. With the fierce class struggle and national struggle, the concept of "women" replaced the concept of "women". Awakened workers and peasants women participated in the torrent of national liberation, and female soldiers appeared in the team that did not like red clothes but loved armed forces. In War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression and the War of Liberation, the goal of the women's movement in China was first to realize the anti-imperialist and anti-feudal democratic revolution led by the proletariat. During this period, the women's liberation movement in China has been closely linked with the democratic movement and the national liberation movement, and women's consciousness of seeking liberation, independence, freedom and equality has always been integrated with the oppressed class consciousness and revolutionary consciousness.

Since 1949, the status of women in China has been improved as never before, and they enjoy all rights equal to men. They devote themselves to the fiery life of building a new socialist China, and women hold up half the sky, which has become the slogan of women and the reality of life struggle.

However, in the process of seeking women's liberation, we took a detour. The slogan of holding up half the sky has been misused as the physical balance between men and women. In this radical era, gender differences are ignored. On March 8th, the working class, the iron girl class, and the female commandos appeared one after another to compete physically with men, and the harm to women's body and mind can only be realized after calm thinking. However, the establishment of the concept of women's liberation in this era is undeniable.

The 20th century is the century in which women groups appeared for the first time in human history, and it is also the century of women's awakening and revolution. But at the same time, we should also see that although the social status of women in China has changed greatly in this century, it does not mean that the whole social role of women in China has changed. Gender discrimination is still quite serious in many ways. The proportion of out-of-school girls is much higher than that of boys, and there are more laid-off women workers than men. The commercialization of sex is on the rise and is rampant in some areas. These problems show that there is still a long way to go before women can be completely liberated. The real liberation of women depends on the improvement of their own quality and the progress of the whole society. We expect women to have a broader sky in the 2 1 century.