Breaking the wall against heaven! A strange woman from the Qing Dynasty tore up "It is virtue for a woman not to have talent"
During the Qianlong period, women were accused of being "prodigal" for studying, so Wang Zhenyi decided to change her fate!
She was born in a family of officials. She was not a nürong and specialized in astrology. She followed her grandfather on the border to observe the stars and calendrix, and traveled across mountains and rivers with her father to study arithmetic. When she was young, she developed the ability to "know everything about astronomy and medicine." She was also proficient in horseback riding, archery, and mathematics.
Married into the Zhan family, with her husband Zhan Mei supporting her and protecting her ambitions, her disciple Xia Leshan assisting in copying books, and her maid Qinghe studying ink by her side, she worked countless candles in the study: improving Western plans, which won the praise of businessmen and astronomers; She wrote "Nu Meng Collected Songs" to teach the orphan girl next door to read and count, lighting up the light of knowledge for thousands of women in the boudoir; she wrote "Medical Prescriptions and Currency Testing" to save the suffering of the people with folk prescriptions, and wrote "The First Collection of De Feng Pavilion" to express her aspirations as a heroine.
Furu scholars angrily criticized "women's writing of books that corrupts morals", and she wrote back with a pen that "the best way in the universe is not reserved for men alone"; the world laughed at "it is difficult for women to achieve great things". In her short life of twenty-nine years, she spanned the four fields of astronomy, mathematics, medicine and education, leaving behind many works that have been handed down from generation to generation.
When the crater of Venus was named after her, and when "Nature" magazine rectified her name, this strange woman of the Qing Dynasty finally used knowledge as a blade to pierce the feudal night, and used talent as light to illuminate the path of women's pursuit. This biography will show you how she broke the shackles of gender and lived as a spiritual beacon spanning hundreds of years!
Wang Zhenyi, who was born in the Qianlong period, wanted to tear apart the shackles of "a woman's lack of talent is a virtue"!
Born into a scholarly family, she watched stars and calculated calendars with her grandfather since she was a child, and studied business with her father.
