有关女性地位的探讨,可以上溯到商代。在商代,女性并不是像周以后的各个朝代那样没有丝毫地位可言。她们是一个特殊的群体,有着之后各代女性所不能企及的地位和权利。她们活跃在国家社会生活中的各个领域。她们参与和主持祭祀活动,并在死后可以如先王们一样享受祭祀;她们拥有兵权,驰骋疆场;她们拥有自己的封地和独立的财产。她们这种不输男儿的气势在中国女性历史上书写了灿烂的一笔,不管时代如何变迁,她们的事迹都是无法磨灭的。 The discussion on the status of women can be traced back to Shang Dynasty. In Shang dynasty, females did not have the same status as the dynasties in the week. They are a special group with status and rights that generations of women can not reach. They are active in all fields of national social life. They participate in and preside over sacrificial rituals and, after their death, enjoy ritual worship as the kings of the past; they possess military power and ride the battlefield; they have their own fiefs and independent property. Their momentum of not losing men has written a splendid sum in the history of Chinese women, and their deeds can not be extinguished no matter how the times change.