爱情诗意象的嬗变与女性社会地位变化

The Evolution of Images in Love Poems and the Change of Women's Social Status

自西周以迄唐代,爱情诗意象随着时代发展变化,一直处于嬗变中。先秦时期以草木、玉石、鸟兽等自然意象为主,两汉时期人工意象逐步增多,魏晋南北朝以人工意象居多,至唐代,又呈现出逆转的倾向,自然与人工意象并存。这种趋势暗合了中国女性的社会地位升降变化:先秦时期的女性参与社会生活的程度较高,也具有一定的社会地位,汉以后女性地位下降趋势明显,至唐代,女性地位又开始逐步回升,并达到一个难以复制的高潮。

From the Western Zhou Dynasty to the Tang Dynasty,the images of love poems had varied with social progress and had always been in constant change. In the pre-Qin period,the images of love poems were mainly trees and grass,jade,birds and beasts; while during the Western and Eastern Han dynasties,more and more artificial images emerged,and in Wei,Jin and Southern and Northern dynasties,artificial images took up a great majority. In the Tang Dynasty,there existed a reverse tendency,namely,the co-existence of natural images and artificial ones,which is coincident with changes in the social status of women in China,that is,in the pre-Qin period,women had a higher level of participation in social life and enjoyed some social status,but women＇s social position declined distinctly after the Han Dynasty,while the Tang Dynasty witnessed a gradual rise of women＇s social status up to an ultimate unprecedented summit.