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This paper is intended to analyze the daily lives and educational situations of various women in the Ming Dynasty through Encyclopedias for Daily Use. Encyclopedias for Daily Use have explanations of food, clothing, and very trivial things. The content of Encyclopedias for Daily Use is so popular that it has a device that even people who don’t know the letters can read it. It is poetry and illustration. Poetry is short and can be memorized quickly if you follow the rhythm, and Illustrations have an educational effect that allows you to know the content just by looking at the picture. Inside Encyclopedias for Daily Use, there are poems and illustrations, which allow female readers to understand life-related knowledge. By analyzing how Encyclopedias for Daily Use deliver food, pregnancy, childbirth, and childcare to female readers, one can understand the daily lives and cultures of various female readers in the Ming Dynasty.