由《说文解字》“女”部字看中国古代妇女非主流的社会地位

Ancient Chinese Women's Social Status of Non-mainstream Displaying in Shuowen Nvbu

《说文解字》"女"部字的构建和内涵折射出古代先民的审美情趣、道德传统和文化观念等社会信息。通过对出现在经典文献和字书中的"女"部字进行研究和考证,认为女性在古代社会是一个特殊的、非主导地位的和非正统的非主流群体。具体表现在古代女性的名字称谓具有特殊性,表示女性构件的"女"部与表示男性的构字部件具有不平衡性和非对称性,古代女性相对于男性而言有极其苛刻严格的审美标准等文化现象。

Social information such as the ancient aesthetic taste, moral tradition and culture reflected from the structuring and connotation in Shuowcn Nvbu. The paper analyses the definition of the Nvbu words in the ancient dictionary and researches them in the classical literature language. We will find that the ancient women were a special group, without a dorninanl, orthodox and-mainstreaming position. Performing in the ancient women＇s spe cial appellation, the component between the male and the female was not balanced and asymmetric. Compared with the male, the female had very strict aesthetic standards.