"Flowers in the Mirror" (vernacular version), a fantasy novel written by Li Ruzhen, a scholar in the Qing Dynasty, can be called the "Gref's Travels" in the East.
Along with the ship, he traveled to dozens of bizarre overseas foreign countries: the "two-faced country" where his clothes were reversed, the "gentleman's country" where he was indisputable, and the "gutless country" where he entered and exited. The most bizarre among them is the daughter country where men's feet are bound.
Why did Empress Wu Zetian write "Poetry to Encourage Flowers" to make hundreds of flowers bloom in one night? Why did they issue an edict to hold the women's imperial examination and set up a list to identify hundreds of talented women? And what story will happen among these hundreds of talented women?
All of this originated from a dispute and gambling at the Queen Mother of the West's banquet.
The author, who was under the discipline of feudal ethics, used the words of the characters in the story to issue an appeal to "abandon foot binding and let women also study and become officials." But despite this, he still quoted Ban Zhao's "The Female Commandment" as the beginning of the story. This may be the "political correctness" of the Qing Dynasty.
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Multi-dimensional description content is true and objective
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Is there anyone who knows it well? I don't know. Thank you, sister, thank you, sister
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Girls should be self-reliant and patriotic. If you have patriotic feelings, please like.