Gender Discrimination In Chinese Idiomatic Phrase

Language is under the ownership of all people, it should treat people equally. But towards different gender, the attitude of language is not fair, it exists obvious gender discrimination. Gender discrimination is a phenomenon based on gender, it may appear as male discrimination against women, and can also be expressed as female discrimination against men. This study mainly refers to the discrimination against women.Gender discrimination has a long history in history and culture, the view that woman are inferior to men has a founded root in the social ideology. Both western developed countries and our country that has five thousand years of Chinese history and culture, all has gender discrimination reflected in languages.Chinese idioms are phrases and sentence that gradually formed and familiar with people in the process of Chinese development, and we cannot change the shape of their structure arbitrarily, it including idioms, proverbs, enigmatic folk similes, idiomatic expressions and mottos. Behind the phrase is abundant cultural connotation, and also contains a sexist culture ideology. Through the study of gender discrimination in Chinese idiomatic phrases, we can further enrich the content of gender linguistics.In this paper, quantitative analysis and literature study as primary research methods. We choose corpus from Chinese Idioms Dictionary, Chinese proverb Dictionary, Chinese saying words Dictionary and the Dictionary of Chinese Enigmatic folk similes, and collate relevant papers and literatures, to have a glance at the gender discrimination phenomenon in Chinese idiomatic phrases. Explore the reasons from physiological, psychological, social and cultural aspects, and finally provide recommendations to prevent Chinese gender discrimination.