Abstract：The role of Chengying's wife are not given enough attention in the tragedy, The Orphan of Zhao opera, Ji Junxiang's the Great Revenge of the Orphan of Zhao in Yuan Dynasty, the Eight Heroes in Ming Dynasty and Pihuang Opera in Qing Dynasty;while Idame, a heroine is firstly added by French writer, Voltaire, to his adaptation the Orphan of China.The importance of Chengying's wife had not been realized in Chinese literature until the late Qing Dynasty, in a Peking opera, Seeking and Saving the orphan.This phenomenon, to some extent, reflects the discrepancies between Chinese and western females in terms of ethic cultural context and feminine consciousness awakening.

Keyword：Chengying's wife;tragedy;ethic cultural context;feminine consciousness;