" Wusi " During The Sex Consciousness Of Women Writers

"Women writers in modern China, known as the cultural mouthpiece for women group, took the advantage of cultural reform and managed to gain their own language, listeners and forum, which could be considered to be an event of great significance." Writers are always born by the times. During the period of May Fourth Movement in 1919, the first women writers, with Chen Hengzhe, Bing Xin, Lu Tin, Feng Yuanjun, Ling Shuhua and Su Xuelin as the vanguard, appeared in the literary arena, thanks to the New Culture Movement.Women writers in the time of May Fourth Movement, who emerged as a group in a particular historical period, were described as the first modern woman writer group in Chinese literary history by some women scholars. The author can't agree with the idea to define them as a writer group. Their emergence, however, claimed undoubtedly that Chinese women were no longer a silent group. More importantly, they were influenced by the Nara idea ("I am first a human, a human like you.") and started to wake up as group with the value to treat themselves as human beings, to reflect over their traditional sex role, and to construct subjectivity consciousness of modern women. The construction of modern sex consciousness of women writers in this period started from murdering their fathers. Considering self-salvation of women, they directly and deeply experienced the injure and confinement imposed to women by feudal ethics and patriarchy. They hated feudal marriage and ethics, and strongly pursued the liberation of the self and public approbation. Therefore, they happened to choose without pervious consultation love and marriage as the subject matter, which could best express women's sex consciousness. Love and marriage became the frequent theme of women's works, as it was extremely close to their destiny. Women writers longed for free love and marriage, which clearly reflected the trend of the times---anti-feudalism and liberation of human beings. They disclosed the double role of the mother, both "the protector of the daughter" and "the executer of the supremacy of the father", and rewrote the role of the mother; they were concerned about the difficulties of all "new wives", indicating women's spiritual alliance; they observed the world and themselves with their own criteria; they created many vivid women heroes by describing women's difficulties in reality; they, with deep understanding and sympathy, disclosed women's destiny as both individual and group, their mental pursuit, their strong consciousness of being independent, their brave rebelling spirit and their perfect ideal of truth, kindness and beauty. Among the women writers during this period, Bing Xin and Ling Shuhua were specially worth mentioning. Not only Ling Shuhua's unconscious introspection of the sex of "young lady" and "madam", but also Bing Xin's modernist core of women consciousness reflected in "the psychology of love" and "the ideal of truth, kindness and beauty", surpassed their contemporary counterparts in subjectivity...