The word female history first comes from a sentence in the "Zhou Li Tianguan": "Female shi holds the ceremonial office of the queen, holds the second place of internal governance, and governs the internal affairs after the edict." ”
Therefore, in china's ancient women's history, refers to an official position, but does not literally refer to the meaning of female historians, its specific position is actually mainly in charge of the queen's etiquette and writing documents and other matters, so usually the position needs to be held by those knowledgeable women!
According to the description in the Zhou Li, the more specific position of the female historian was to be responsible for the queen's etiquette and to supervise copies of the laws related to internal affairs, and to tell the queen when necessary to manage the harem according to these ceremonial and internal affairs copies, and to check the expenses of all the harem's belongings;
At the same time, it is also necessary to go anytime and anywhere, to record the orders written by the queen, and when the queen needs to perform the ceremony, she is responsible for being by her side, holding the ceremonial book and telling the queen how to perform the ceremony, what details need to be paid attention to, what taboos are and so on!
Judging from the content of her position, the so-called female history is exactly like the female secretary at the queen's side, mainly responsible for her knowledge of etiquette and clerical!
According to the Ming Dynasty's Wanli Dynasty, the famous great literary scholar Shen Defu recorded in the chapter "Gong Lu Female Xiucai" in his book "Wan Li Ye Zhi Zhi" as follows: "All the palace women who have been taught by their internal ministers, and those who read and understand the arts and sciences, are first female xiucai. Promoted to female history, promoted to palace official, and even the sixth innings of the palm seal. ”
It can be seen that the female history is mainly from the palace women in the palace, and after teaching a certain amount of knowledge through the internal ministers, you can select the wise ones, promote them to female talents, and then gradually promote them to female history, and even the palm seal of the six bureaus!
After modern times, women's history has gradually become a reputation for intellectual women. Until contemporary China, the term "women's history" was basically used, but on the Japanese side, because its cultural part was studied in China, they still used "women's history" to describe intellectual women!
For example, when Ms. Zhang Haidi, a well-known representative figure of China's disabled Zhijian, went to Japan to hold a concert, the fans there at that time hung up the words "Welcome Zhang Haidi's Female History".
Here "women's history" means intellectual women!