Abstract：In ancient China, women wrote far less than men. Before the Tang Dynasty, women writers who had works handed down through the ages accounted for only 1.5% of all writers. Women’s works in the Qing Dynasty account for 70% of all women’s works in ancient China, but none of them has been included in the famous “Anthology of Good Works in the Qing Dynasty(清代文集叙录)”. Compared with women’s poems, the quantity of their proses is next to nothing. There are many factors accounting for this phenomenon. First, due to the limitation of their knowledge as a result of limited education and few opportunities to see the outside world, writing was difficult for women. Those women who were able to write poems and proses were from distinguished families, of great talents, and with extraordinary experience. Second, women’s writing was restricted by its function. Poetry serves better than proses for flattery and ostentatiousness, which made women write more poems than proses. However, proses written by women were mostly of practical style and were of poor quality, and thus few of them was handed down through the ages. Proses written by women were a bit more impressive when a new dynasty replaced an old one. Inadequate printing, and lack of time and energy are also possible reason why women wrote few proses. It is a pity that women in ancient China left behind very few proses.
张玉. 中国古代女性有诗无文之异况及成因[J]. 《深圳大学学报》（人文社科版）, 2021, 38(4): 142-150.
ZHANG Xiu-yu. The Special Situation and Reason of More Poems and Less Essays in Ancient Chinese Women. , 2021, 38(4): 142-150.
2021, Vol. 38 
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