中国古代小说关于女性容貌描写的植物化比拟

自宋元以后 ,中国古代小说的女性容貌描写逐渐出现了以“花”、“柳”等植物为喻象的倾向 ,这意味着以藻饰女性容貌为快意的世俗文化心态已渗透到小说文本之中。这种女性容貌描写的植物化比拟既建立在原始的“诗性的”隐喻思维基础之上 ,又吸取了传统诗词以及戏曲以植物喻人的经验 ,创造了一种以隐喻象征为特点的诗意韵致。同时 ,中国古代小说女性容貌的“植物化”喻象的特点是“可观”、“可餐” ,是男性作者在性别错位的社会里对女性容貌所进行的满足自身欣赏欲念的误读

On the "Foliaged" Metaphor about the Female Facial Features in the Chinese Ancient Stories

Since Song and Yuan dynasty, the female facial features in Chinese ancient stories was depictd to be “Blossom" “Willow" and other plants. This means that the embellishments in writing female facial features which act as the joyful in worldly culture have seeped into the stories texts. This kind of “foliaged" trend about female facial features are not only established on the base of the aboriginal verse metaphor thinking, but also sucks up the experience which usually metaphor women with vegetables in the traditional verse and opera. It creates one kind of poetic flavour that takes the metaphor emblem as the distinguishing feature. At the same time,the trait of the “foliaged" imagoes about female facial features in the Chinese ancient stories is “to view" or “to eat". It is truly a mistake comprehension to the female facial features which is made by the male writers in the sexual distinction community in order to satisfy themselves' desire.