Preliminary Discussion on Female Cultural Education in Ancient China

With the studying, it is not difficult for us to find that the first distinctive feature on female cultural education in ancient China is family-oriented, which was the main form of female cultural education in ancient China; the second feature is the tendency to emphasize overly on ethnicity and morality, and standardized female behavior in female cultural education in ancient China; the third is literature and history-loving, that is, a majority of women preferred literature and historical knowledge, stressing on improving their literature cultivation, unlike men who were obsessed to read the tedious classics, or books specially designated for the imperial examination.