Study On Female Characters In Palace Poems In Tang Dynasties And Five Dynasties

Palace poems are unique style of the ancient Chinese literature,and generally refers to the life in the palace.It mainly describes the palace scenery and the life of people who live in the palace.Meanwhile it also includes the ancient laws and regulations,customs products,aesthetic practice and other related content in a particular era.Palace words are generally seven-character quatrain.Thousands of works have been survived so far.Its origins can be traced back to the "Book of Songs".First of all,the poem named after "palace word" is Cui Guofu’s "Wei Palace word".This poem form was not officially flourished until Wang Jian’s hundred series of poems in the Tang Dynasty appeared.Since then Wang Ya,Zhang Ji,Yin Yao Fan,Zhang Xiaobiao,Zhang Hu and many other poets have appeared till Hua rui lady in Five Dynasty as a queen firstly wrote One Hundred Palace’s Poems.After the dynasties,there are many followers,such as He Jing in Five Dynasty Later Jin and Song Bai,Zhang Gongxiang,Zhou Yanzhi,Wang Zhongxiu,Song Huizong,Yang Huanghou,Hu Wei in Song Dynasty and many poets in Ming and Qing dynasties.The emergence of a large number of the palace poems attracted the attention of the world.In a large number of palace poems,the works of Wang Jian,He Ning and Hua rui lady have a special status in the history of the palace poems.This article chooses the palace words of the Tang and Five Dynasties,and focus on the works of Wang Jian,Hua rui and He Ning.It also studies the feminist image using the feminist literary criticism method.The main description object of the palace poems in Tang and Five Dynasties are palace women,which includes the unique female image of the palace maid,the palace performers,and the maidservant.Through the description of the female image of the palace,the poet shows the ’beauty of female face,the dress,the virtue and the character,which has the high aesthetic value.These poems also show the unique aesthetic taste of the poet and the affirmation of feminine beauty.But for thousands of years the male aesthetic standards of women has also become an obstacle of the realization of the female value.Palace women were influenced by many factors such as palace environment,culture,life and formed other state of the mind different from ordinary women’s,resulting in psychological contradictions,psychological demands and psychological limitations and other specific manifestations.It is precisely because of the influence of the feminine view in the Tang and Five Dynasties.And from the female image described by the male and female poets,we can see the feminine view with their own gender characteristics.It is worth mentioning that,in such a male-dominated society environment of ancient China,both sexes poets simultaneously show the content of the "bisexual" characteristics in the works.It is not only poets’ pursuit of superior personality beyond the single gender temperament but also the perfect ideal of gender fusion in the female view,which has higher gender significance and social significance.In the description of women,the Tang and Five Dynasties palace lasted the feature of pre-Tang obscure poems and palace-style poetry which regards the life of the palace women as a creative center and at the same time it is divorced from the obstacles of using too gorgeous terms,Because of this,the Tang and Five Dynasties palace poems have made brilliant artistic achievements in the ancient palace literature.Palace poems have not gradually gone until 1940s and experienced a thousand years of ups and downs.The shape and performance of women in the Tang and Five Dynasties showed us the social status and consciousness of women in a period of time,so as to observe the development of female literature comprehensively.