Imagery And Gender Role——Comparison of Female Images in Wen Tingyun's Ci Poems and Wei Zhuang's Ci Poems

Depiction of female characters is basic creation orientation of Huajian Ci writers.Both Wen Tingyun and Wei Zhuang are masters of Huajian Ci.But there are great differences between their writing styles.Wen pays a particular attention to imagery of things,while Wei always describes female's appearance and feelings with a light style.The languages in Ci of Wen Tingyun and Wei Zhuang are both strongly characterized by femaleness in content as well as form.Wei's Ci describe female image in a calm spectator perspective and females in his Ci are the other and object seen,while Wen's Ci speak a beautiful and melancholy sadness in position of female.The formation of their different writing styles is closely related to their life and education.