In most people's impressions, the four talented women of ancient China are Cai Wenji, Li Qingzhao, Shangguan Wan'er, and Zhuo Wenjun. Some scholars were not convinced, and threw over a person's name, although the fame was smaller than the above four, but the talent was not inferior. She is Ban Zhao, the "first talented woman in China" in two thousand years. With a "Female Commandment", she influenced the thinking of Chinese women for thousands of years. Although this book is very controversial, in the face of traditional culture, it is necessary to treat it with a dialectical attitude, absorbing good places and discarding bad places.
In the old society, where the status of women was extremely low, Ban Zhao Yijie's female streamers could obviously eat by their faces, but they relied on their talents. She was trusted by the emperor and was valued by the empress dowager, and even her descendants followed her. She used the legend of her life to tell us: where does a woman who reads a lot win.
People who love to read will make people's lives more selective.
Ban Zhao was born into a famous family, a family of scholars, a large family of cultural people, and her genes are quite strong: Ban Jieyu is her aunt, Ban Gu, who is the same name as Sima Qian, is her brother, and the famous historian Ban Biao is her father... Ban Zhao, who grew up in the sea of books since childhood, naturally exceeded the height of his peers by a large margin. Therefore, Ban Zhao was often summoned to the imperial palace by the emperor to teach the empress and the nobles to recite the history of the scriptures, and the palace respected him as a teacher.
Ban Zhao was fourteen years old and married Cao Shishu, a native of the same county, Cao Shishu was lively and outgoing, Ban Zhao was gentle and delicate, and the husband and wife were quite accommodating to each other, giving birth to a pair of children, and living a very happy life. Unfortunately, the good times did not last long, Uncle Cao Shi died early, and Ban Zhao raised children alone, served his in-laws, and never remarried in his life.
If he had only scrupulously observed his honor and taught his son, Ban Zhao would not have become the first female historian in China later, but at best a microcosm of the thousands of women in the old society. It is full of knowledge, talent, and books that Ban Zhao has embarked on a completely different path, successfully changing his life from a single choice to a multiple choice.
At that time, Ban Zhao's father, Ban Biao, had exhausted his life's efforts to write history books, and the data had just been collected for more than half of the time. The elder brother Ban Gu inherited his father's legacy and spent 20 years writing the "Book of Han", but unexpectedly he was unjustly imprisoned. The "Book of Han" has not yet been completed, but the writers have died one by one, and the emperors at that time, Han He, felt that it was too much of a pity, and still had to find someone to finish it.
As a result, Emperor Han and Emperor Summoned Ban Zhao into the palace several times and let her take over the compilation of the Book of Han. Fortunately, when Ban Zhao was still alive, he participated in the compilation of the whole book, and not only received the permission of the Han and Emperors, but also went to the Dongguan Library to refer to the classics, so it was easy to write. In the end, when Ban Zhao was forty years old, he finally completed the finishing and supplementary work of the Book of Han. After the publication of the Book of Han, it received extremely high praise, and scholars rushed to recite it.
The most difficult parts of the Book of Han are the seventh table, the Hundred Officials and Secretaries of State, and the sixth, The Astronomical Chronicle, which Ban Zhao completed independently after her brother's death, but she still humbly wrote the name of her brother Ban Gu. How profound is Ban Zhao's knowledge? Even Ma Rong, a scholar at the time, knelt outside the library to listen to her explanation in order to get Ban Zhao's guidance.
"How great are people who read a lot?" And Ban Zhao is undoubtedly the beneficiary of reading more. In her body, we can see that from ancient times to the present, it is knowledge that changes fate and learning to achieve the future. People who don't read, even if you have traveled all over the world, you may not be able to understand the world.
Keep reading, and keep meeting better yourself in the process of reading! The writer Mai Jia once said: "The world is big, but books are the biggest." Because books can make the world smaller and make us grow up.