中国封建社会是父权社会，男性在血缘家庭中担任家长，要求女性从属。但即便如此，在“孝亲”观念的影响下，女性凭借母亲的身份，获得并行使“母权”，仍有自身的生存痕迹。清代小说《红楼梦》中，辈分最高的贾母成为家族内部的最高权威代表。贾母权威因父亲形象缺失和贾府男性品行低下而加强；其母权施行过程中存在着不同的外在表现形式，充分展现出母权的张扬，又隐含着内在的施行困境，从中体现出贾母形象的立体与矛盾。贾母形象具有较高审美价值。她是宗法宝塔之上的艺术母神，是传统樊笼之内的自由折光，是中华母性文化的臻美代表。

Chinese feudal society was a patriarchal society, with men acting as heads of blood families and requiring female subordination. But even so, under the influence of the concept of "filial piety", women still have their own traces of survival by virtue of their motherhood, obtaining and exercising ‘maternal rights’. In the Qing Dynasty novel "Dream of Red Chamber", Jia's mother, who has the highest seniority, becomes the highest authority representative within the family. The authority of Jia's mother is strengthened by the lack of father's image and the low character of men in The Jia family, and there are different external manifestations in the process of motherhood, and there are also internal dilemmas in the implementation of matriarchy, which reflects the three-dimensional and contradictory image of Jia's mother. The image of Jia's mother has high aesthetic value. She is the artistic mother goddess on the patriarchal pagoda, the free refraction in the traditional cage, and the perfect representative of Chinese maternal culture.