在海外华文文学作家中,严歌苓的小说创作取得了显著成就,对海外华文文学和中国文学具有重要意义。其中的一系列母性形象更是丰富了中国当代小说中的母性形象,对于母性美的的表现更是寄托了作家的文化追求。严歌苓是一个推崇东方母性美的作家,对于中国女性延续数千年的性格的美德有一种深切的迷恋,于是在作家的笔下的理想的女性都带有中国传统女性的性格特点,这些特点反映在人物的行为、语言和形象上。这种传统性格特点,更多的是从原始性上 Among the overseas Chinese literary writers, Yan Geling’s novels have made remarkable achievements and are of great significance to overseas Chinese literature and Chinese literature. Among them, a series of maternal images enriched the images of maternity in contemporary Chinese novels, and laid emphasis on the cultural pursuit of writers for the performance of matrimonial beauty. Yan Geling is a writer who advocates oriental motherhood and has a profound fascination with the virtues of Chinese women for thousands of years. Therefore, the ideal women in the works of writers carry the traits of Chinese traditional women, which are reflected in the characters Behavioral, linguistic and figurative. This traditional personality traits, more from the original sex