Cultural Implications of the Female Characters in the Fu Poetry of the Han Dynasty

Statistics and classification of the existing fu-poetry works in the Han Dynasty show that the fu-poetry works involving female characters take one-fifth of the total of fu-poetry works,which go far beyond our imagination.In numerous poetry works,the poets focused their description mainly on goddesses,beauties and dancing girls,the images of which exceeded far common working women.An analytic study of such characters presents us enough knowledge of aesthetic value and cultural significance represented by these female characters and makes us deeply recognize the internal reason for the focus and blind in the horizon of those fu-poetry writers,which is of very important significance to a wholesome understanding and knowledge of their literary writing and social politics and cultural life in the Han Dynasty.