Male-centered Mentality in Cao Zhi's Poems on Female Resentment

摘要

With distinctive male-centered mentality, Cao Zhi's poems on female resentment express the confirmation and maintenance of the central position of male dominance and indifference and negation to female value and life experience. The male-centered mentality is mainly reflected in the following aspects: firstly, the beauty of females is taken as the object of male appreciation and desire; secondly, female virtue is in fact the morality imposed on female according to the demand of male in male-dominated society; thirdly, the love to female and the responsibility to family of male are absent; fourthly, the construction of female social gender is completed through imagination and fiction. The male-centered mentality and the humble status of female are in close relation to the social class of Cao Zhi and the supreme authority of the monarchical power.