The screen is a common household item in ancient times,and its characteristics define the identity of the user.In the traditional family,it shows the grade difference between men and women.In the literature of the Tang Dynasty,the screen also presents the typical gender characteristics.The patterns on the screen in the female boudoir are mostly metaphors for women's emotional states.This type of screen also participates in the viewer's peeping at women.While the screen in intellectuals'study room is often elevated to a special cultural symbol,showing masculine characteristics and elite colors.Compared with the two,women's identity construction is passively completed under the prying eyes of others and in the imagination,while male intellectuals,as elites with political and cultural privileges,actively use the screen as a medium to highlight the spiritual outlook of intellectual groups.
screenscreen paintingpoems of the Tang DynastyCi of the Five Dynastiesgender typing