| In the age of the Book of Songs, the male had been dominating the society. In the Book of Songs, many kinds of vivid male images with different charactericstics were portrayed with different artistic techniques. For example, the ancient ancestries, the nobilities,the farmers, the soldiers, and so on. The portrayal of all these male images embodies the philosophy and the aesthetics in the age of the Book of Songs, and it sets up visualized aesthetic standards and the ethics for the later generations. So, to probe into the male's unique features and positions in the age of the Book of Songs is one of the important means of understanding the politics, economy, culture of the age of the Book of Songs. It is necessary to make a summary of the male images in the age of the Book of Songs from both macro and micro perspectives. The writer studies the male images in the Book of Songs in order to reveal the charaters'connations in all aspects. The dissertation is divided into five parts. In the foreword, the writer introduces the current study situation of male images in the Book of Songs and states the reasons and the significance of the dissertation. In part two, the writer sums up the types of the male images in the Book of Songs and describes their characteristics. In part three, the writer sums up the aritistic techniques used to describ the male images in the Book of Songs. In part four, the writer describes the historical and cultural factors reflecting by the male in the Book of Songs. In part five, the writer analyses the male imagery and their culture connotation.The conclusions are: First, there are plenty of superb aritistic techniques in portraying the characters in the Book of Songs, and the arctistry is excellent. The characters have characterized charact, so the Book of Songs can be considered the model of poetry for the later ages. Second, as the male dominated the society in the age of the Book of Songs, their viewpoints of life, aethestic standards , and the ethice reflect inevitably the historical and cultural features in the age of the Book of Songs, and therefore, the Book of Songs has an significant influence on the later's literature. |