The Tang Dynasty boasts a diverse culture;chivalry is a social trend apart from Confucianism,Buddhism and Taoism.Ideal personalities for women are holding dear to a traditional gentlewomanly and virtuous mould,and pursuing chivalry as well.This paper has probed into the elements of the times and diverse cultural backdrops which generated Tang-dynasty's women in pursuit of chivalry as their ideal personalities,and into which encompass such attributes as a mixed staunchness and tenderness,a readiness to help the endangered and relieve the underprivi-leged,a combination of righteousness and gallantry,and an absorption in subject awareness.
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