赛珍珠以自己的养母为原型创作了小说《母亲》,文本中塑造了中国农村经典的母亲形象。一辈子生活在方圆几里的小村庄里的女人,在包办的婚姻里,为家庭付出一生。无知善良的性格,让她在自我愚昧的安慰中度过了苦难的一生。这一形象代表了中国上千年底层妇女特征:固执,守旧,狭隘,却又是无私奉献的女性。 Pearl S. Buck created the novel “Mother” with her own adoptive mother as the prototype, and the text shaped the mother’s image of China’s rural classic. A woman living in a small village a few miles in life, in the arranged marriage, give her family a lifetime. Ignorance of good character, let her in the self-ignorance of comfort through the suffering of life. This image represents the characteristics of the bottom three thousand years of Chinese women: stubborn, conservative, narrow, but selfless dedication of women.