POETESS LI QINGZHAO: FIVE POEMS COVERED HER WHOLE LIFE
POETESS LI QINGZHAO: FIVE POEMS COVERED HER WHOLE LIFE

Summary/Abstract: Li Quingzhao (1081-1155) is an outstanding female writer and poetess in China's Song Dynasty (96--1127-1279). She is praised as the ancestor of gracious poetry. As a female, she still had the most normal life experience as a women, which is considerably rare during that period. All the poems selected here reflect the special emotional experience of a woman who was beyond the limitations of those times. Her life experiences were reflected in her poetry one by one. This paper does not focus on that part of her poetry which reflected the social reality, but on her special emotion from the female perspective. The creation style and content were diverse and come from the five particular periods of her life: the childish little girl, the unmarried young girl, the newly married bride, the married young woman missing her husband and the wandering middle-aged woman. In addition, as an influential poetess, Li Qingzhao has left a large number of other remarkable poetry for us which is popular generation after generation.

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