A Study On The Female Images In The Evening Rain And Autumn

Yeyuqiudenglu and Yeyuqiudengxulu were collections of the short stories in the later Qing Dynasty. Its author, Xuan Ding, create a lot of female roles in the novel who objectively and fully show the living scenes, the spiritual journey and the spiritual demand of Chinese women after the opium war, reflect the wanders and pursuit of the lower literati from the side and have a unique artistic value and charm In the history of Chinese literature.The main content of introduction is to analyze the research status of Yeyuqiudenglu more comprehensively by reading a large number of literatures and collecting a large number of academic papers. And the author of the paper began to collect and analyze the research data about Yeyuqiudenglu’s female images, and found that the academic circles have a little care about the women’s issues of Yeyuqiudenglu and the existing research is scattered.The first chapter names the prevue of female images in Yeyuqiudenglu. This chapter mainly analyzes female images in Yeyuqiudenglu from the novel text. The first section, the general productiong of female image, gives a brief account of the female description in Yeyuqiudenglu by reading the text. The second section, identity of women in Yeyuqiudenglu, Classifies the female images of Yeyuqiudenglu from the perspective of human and non-human and the perspective of women’s social strata in the Qing dynasty. The third section emphatically analyzes the cultural connotation of female roles in Yeyuqiudenglu.The second chapter, the beauty of female in Yeyuqiudenglu, is the core of this paper. The beauty of female in Yeyuqiudenglu is summarized as five aspects that include the beauty of appearance, the beauty of temperament, the beauty of character, the beauty of intelligence and personal loyalty and the beauty of the rebellious. The key point is to give a macro perspective of characteristics of the female beauty in the specific context of Qing dynasty especially in late Qing dynasty.The third chapter, Xuan Ding’s view on women, is to explain the progressive view of women in Yeyuqiudenglu. Based on the equality between men and women in this chapter, Xuan Ding’s view on women mainly features criticizing patriarchal ideology, advocating freedom and equality of marriage and opposing foot-binding. However, in the process of glorifying Xuan Ding’s viewpoint, the author of this paper should pay attention to his shortcomings and insufficiency.In the end, summarize the thesis and illustrate positive significance of this topic.