明清徽州知识精英对节烈妇女事迹的张扬

On the Spread of Chastity Women's Events by Huizhou Intellectuals in Ming and Qing Dynasties

明清两朝政府对贞节妇女的旌表非常重视,但最终能获取朝廷旌表的节烈妇女毕竟只占符合旌表条件妇女当中的极少数。烈女事迹记载在朝廷只存于部分皇帝批准旌表呈请的记录,正史记载的节烈妇女也非常有限,无法使更多的节烈妇女事迹得以流传后世。于是一些文人士大夫为弥补旌表的诸种不足,开辟另外的空间来表扬贞节妇女,包括地方志的采录、家谱的录入和文集记载。知识精英的文字记载与国家旌表在社会效果上殊途同归,成为有效的教化手段,弥补了国家旌表的不足。

The governments in Ming and Qing Dynasties put emphasis on the spread of the chastity women＇s events. However, only a minority of them can be shown by the royal government. The events of the chastity women can only be found in some of the royal records and formal history. In order to make ihe events well known, many intellectuals made records of the events in local history, family records and literary collections. The records by the intellectuals have the same function as that of the government and as a method of education, they were the complement of the formal history of the government.