Analysis of the female image in Chinese Proverbs: A Cognitive Study

The present work aims to highlight the female image in Chinese proverbs, from cognitive perspective based on theory of metaphor and metonymy Lakoff Johnson (1986), a corpus more than two hundred examples analyzed, assessing their physical appearance, vices virtues, status family life, which cultural world has created around them. resultsof study allow following conclusions: 1) exist great discrimination against women proverbs,most them are rural agricultural environment centuries 2) patriarchal andandrocentric ideology permeates proverb through metaphorical metonymic elaboration 3) theemergence decline these have justified evolution mentalities change ofthe social framework.