In this paper various aspects and characteristics of feminine culture of the Ming and the Qing Dynasty are explored and viewed through Dream of the Red Chamber, which was created in the mid-18th centuryduring the ruling of the Qing Dynasty. In the novel, female characters are constantly portrayed and regarded as superior to male characters in terms of intelligence, talents, character, and virtue. While male characters around Jia Baoyu from the Jia clan indulge themselves in debauchery and obscene life, female characters make a living and manage the household instead, and their wide spectrum of abilities from managing the household affairs to an exceptional level of refinement and erudition in the arts and culture surpass that of male characters. Theirnoble nature also allows them to exhibit sympathy and compassion towards the weak members of society with a great deal of generosity. The genesis of Dream of the Red Chamber is closely related to the flourishing feminine culture of southern area, so-called ‘才女’(talented woman) to bespecific, during the late-Ming and early-Qing period. The feminineculture of southern area during the late-Ming and early-Qing periodprovided a meaningful and appropriate setting for the novel to acquireverisimilitude for everyday life and animated imagery of women, andphilogyny. The topography of the feminine culture during the Ming and theQing period is first examined in this paper. During this period womenstrictly and thoroughly learned Confucian values and standards with textbooks for women under the centralized and Confucian system ofgovernment. Therefore, chastity was demanded more strongly thananyother eras would have ever required, and in order to defend chastity, thesuicide rate of women increased dramatically. Meanwhile, new feminine culture called ‘The Culture of Talented Women’ began to expand, andparticularly during the late-Ming and early-Qing in southern area a newwave of feminin