英语听力精选进阶版 11426（在线收听）

039 Admonitions Scroll 27 May 2010

Thu, 27 May 10

Chinese scroll with advice for palace ladies on correct behaviour. Neil MacGregor, Director of the British Museum, explores this eleven foot painting based on a poem, which attempted to define the proper behaviour for women during the tumultuous time that followed the collapse of the Han Empire. He tells the story of the scroll and finds out what it is was about women's behaviour that was so worrying men of the period.