科举制度对女性生存状态影响考述

Influence of Imperial Examination System on Women's Living Conditions

女性作为被科举制度排斥在外的一个社会群体,却与科举有着千丝万缕的关联。明清小说中饱读诗书满腹才学的女性形象、近代戏曲作品中光辉鲜亮的女状元形象、服务于士子科考的妻子母亲妓女等女性形象,这形形色色的女性角色共同展现了科举制度影响下,处于封建社会的女性最真实的生存状态。她们的悲欢离合、嬉笑怒骂与士子的科举结果密不可分,归根结底,她们的人生命运全都悬系于科举制度。

The female was a social group which was excluded from the imperial examination system, but it had a close relation-ship with the imperial examination system. AH kinds of female characters, such as the females with the great learning in the novels of Ming and Qing Dynasties,the female champions in modern operas who was in shining bright image and the images of women who served as the scholar＊ s wife,mother or prostitute around the intellectuals, together showed the influence of the imperial examination system and the women＇ s most real life state in the feudal society. Their grief at separation and their joy in union were closely related with the imperial examination,therefore their life all depended on the imperial examination system.