Abstract

Li Qingzhao 1084-1155 is one of the most excellent and most famous female scholars in Chinese literature history whose Epilog to Records on Metal and Stone Jin Shi Lu Houxu as a rare female autobiography in Chinese ancient literature has made many unique creative contributions to the development of Chinese biographic literature As a female autobiography Epilog to Records on Metal and Stone has covered three identities of Li Qingzhao - a daughter of a noble family a wife of a civil official and a female scholar - and the self-recognition of the three identities constitutes the triple female perspective of her autobiography As a lament work Epilog to Record on Metal and Stone has integrated three dimensional narration spaces - autobiographic facts lament for her deceased husband biographical facts lament for her collected objects and historical facts lament for the perished country The richness appropriateness and exquisiteness of the discourse structure for three dimensional lament under a triple female perspective have made Epilog to Records on Metal and Stone a milestone in Chinese biographical history It has not only filled the blank of female authors in ancient Chinese biography but also provided a narrative spatial model of three dimensional interactions laying the solid foundation for Li Qingzhao to be a landmark figure in Chinese biographic history