Mèngmǔ-sānqiān de gùshi zuì zǎo jiànyú 《 Liènǚzhuàn 》.
The story of Mencius's mother moving house three times first appears in the Biographies of Exemplary Women.
Tips
mistakes
列 means 'arranged one after another', as in 列传 'biographies', not 烈 'heroic'. 烈女, a woman who died to keep her chastity, is a different and later word that is easy to confuse with it. 传 is the 'biography' reading.
history
刘向 (77–6 BC) presented it to the throne as a lesson for the court. Its seven sections praise model mothers, wise wives and quick-witted speakers, and the last tells of women who brought states to ruin.
