Abstract:
The Four Learned Ladies was a series of mind-revealing poetic drama. By telling stories of the four learned ladies in Chinese history, Xie Daoyun, Wei Maoyi, Li Qingzhao and Guan Zhongji, the playwright expressed his anti-traditional personal evaluation about women. In the plays, he highlighted the female characters’ men-transcending talent and ability and sang praise of the new view of marriage and family which advocated true-love-based marriage and equality between man and wife, which showed that Hong Sheng the playwright possessed a female consciousness of modern sense. From the above-mentioned, we can surmise Hong’s writing psychology in his late years.
