Female Images In Romance Of The Sui And Tang Dynasties And Their Cultural Connotation

The "Romance of the Sui and Tang dynasties" is a historical novel written by the Qing dynasty's Chu Ren-huo, the story is about the heroes uprising in the last years of the Sui dynasty and Emperor yangdi, Zhu Guier, Emperor xuanzong and princess Yang's love during the two world.In the Chinese ancient novels, the describes of the traditional female images have experienced five stages of Power goddess, Singular women, Stunner dolls, Immoral or Combative women and Intimate beauties. And the traditional view about women was negative, which from the moral and the male perspective. However, the "Romance of the Sui and Tang dynasties" has created a large number of female images with Complex characters and distinct personality. The paper analyzed the female images by divided them into five categories:the virtuous type, the loyalty and brave type, the filial piety type, the talented type and the lustful type, which in the standard of their main characters and the Chinese traditional moral. The virtuous type means the women who abide by the female duty and help the males succeed; the loyalty and brave type means who Loyalty to master and be brave and skillful in battles; the filial piety type means who filial to parents and great-hearted to friends; the talented type means who talented and full of love, and the lustful type means who fornicate with lots of men and disrupt the political in the palace.These images have reflected some cultural connotation as bellows, the mode of get along among the women is harmony and contradictions coexist, but between the men and the woman is respect and obey coexist. Their consciousness enhancement, they have higher social status, and they can pursue love and marriages. What's more, it also shows that the author praised their talents but criticized the inconsistent of their beauty and moral, and bitterly rebuked whom chased rights and sensual. Because the strong subjective emotion of the author, the novel carried lots of enlightenment thoughts and adherents emotion. In addition, analyzed from material selection and plot settings, the novel have the creative endeavors of would like to hunt for novelty and suit both refined and popular tastes.On the basis of the comparison of "Romance of the Sui and Tang dynasties" with "The Water Margin" and "Romance of the Yang's", the "Romance of the Sui and Tang dynasties" paid more attention to the female images, and worked better on describing complex and personality images. It is a kind of innovation on the basis of traditional stereotype and typical description model, and it can help a lot to the later novel creations.