Encircle a City, which ever provoked as stir in Chinese literature history, was considered to be a picture to show the images
of Chinese women and literator. It gave a profound portray of women in those era, so as to reflect a wide and deep significance of social culture. The author described different female characters, which their personalities and images are respective. Among them, Su Wenwan, Tang Xiaofu, Sun Roujia, those three females, who played the most important roles in the life of the hero Fang Hongjian, have strikingly different idiosyncrasies. The author, however, didn’t depend on the description of persons to reflect persons, but to exploit the springheads behind each character, and further more,to reveal the cultural particularity which bears the different images. The author, started from their different marital attitudes, aimed at the description of each female. They followed the new style of the females in the society, while their minds are deeply affedted by and can’t break off the old,
traditional attitudes of marriage style, and finally play a particle in the traditional marriages, whereas some points of new ideas can be found from the character of Tang Xiaofu.