生活在傳統儒教社會的中國婦女，所受教育主要來自各種女教的文本與圖像，當中《列女傳》和相關的列女圖像是重要的參考來源。有感於學界對相關的列女圖像缺乏歷時性的探討，因此，本文擬在既有材料的基礎上，試著對列女圖像的發展脈絡作縱向探討，希望藉由圖像系統，觀察儒家倫理教化中列女圖像的演變概略。

For Chinese women living in traditional Confucian society, their upbringing and cultivation consisted primarily of texts and pictures of female education. Within the traditional female education, Lienu Zhuan, or Biographies of Exemplary Women, and related pictorial representations of women described in these biographies, became key references. In view of the lack of discussions on the historical contexts of these pictorial representation, this paper will analyze the current materials and trace the development of these pictorial representations. The aim of this paper is to offer a conceptual framework to understand how these pictorial representations evolved with the Confucian ethics.