《列女传》篇题的文化特征

The Culture Features of The Titles of Biographies of women

《列女传》现存104篇,每篇均有四字标题。标题的拟定具有以下三条规律:第一,虽然是"列女"传记,但标题的命名却以依附于男子得名者为多数,纯以女子自己的名字直接作为标题的情况极少。第二,凡是传中女性得到国君的嘉奖赐名者,都会将这一赐名用于该篇的标题。第三,基本上每个标题的首字均为国名或地名以显示其所在区域,这种地名都是妇女出嫁后夫家所在地的地名。

The existing Biographies of women consists of 104 volumes, every volumes have the own titles with four letters. The three rules of the titles are shown below： First, although this is the ＂virtuous women＂ biography, but most of the rifles in the book are named after males＇ name, only a few of rifles are directly named after the females＇ name. Second, some of women in the book are given as a special grant from the kings, the granted name became the title of the volume. Third, the initial letter of the titles is basically named after a country＇s name or a place＇s name, these names show where their husbands reside, after women got married.