The great changes in Chinese modern history has brought profound transformation in the emotional topography.Love,breaking free from the constraints of traditional ethics and becoming an impor-tant parameter in Chinese social and cultural life,has played a particularly important role in Chinese women's liberation.A peek at flower metaphors in modern women's writings may reveal their emotional transforma-tion.The first generation of Chinese intellectual women,represented by Qiu Jin,Xu Zihua,Lv Bicheng and Zhang Mojun,prefer to chant plum blossoms,which not only inherited the spiritual metaphor of flowers from traditional literati but also shows their own new emotion of times.With the rise of the New Culture Move-ment,roses instead of plum blossoms become the new favorite of the new literary women to express their pas-sionate emotion and pursuit of freedom.Intriguingly,the exotic love rose has undergone a metamorphosis in the new literary women's works.On one hand,the"nightingale rose"became the"cuckoo rose".On the other hand,they admired white rose more than red rose.All of these transformations revealed the traditional emo-tional orientation of intellectual women in the new era.
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梅花/玫瑰/情感嬗变/文学女性
Key words
plum blossoms/roses/emotional transformation/intellectual women
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