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| Lessons for Women | |||||||||
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| Traditional Chinese | 女誡 | ||||||||
| Simplified Chinese | 女诫 | ||||||||
| Literal meaning | women's admonitions | ||||||||
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Lessons for Women (Chinese: 女誡), also translated as Admonitions for Women, Women's Precepts, or Warnings for Women, is a work by the Han dynasty female intellectual Ban Zhao (45/49–117/120 CE). As one of the Four Books for Women, Lessons had wide circulation in the late Ming and Qing dynasties (i.e. 16th–early 20th centuries). Ban Zhao made the "Admonitions for Women" for her daughters.