Abstract: Yuan Yang is one of the main maids in the maid community, who is quite characteristic and plays an important role on the novel of A Dream of Red Mansion. She is completely different from any other maids. This gentle, kindhearted and beautiful woman outpours a kind of temperament all over as well as her unique sublimity moves so many people and make them reluctant to forget. Yuan Yang is brave enough to revolt her marriage, it is the very resist spirit that make her distinguish from others in the maid community of the maid of the novel. The article will compressively analyze the lightening pot of character of Yuan Yang, for example, sincere, kindness, rigidity and aptitude, through the four aspects as well as her slavish personality which is inevitable and her tragedy life which seems to be doomed to her destiny. From the 46th chapter of the description in the original novel especially Yuan Yang’s action, language and phychology, we will accurately, comprehensively, objectively analyze that she is a brave maid who knows her own mind and insist on her own belief about life by Cao Xueqin’s writting. I belive that this image can enspire us on our real life, through we understand the character of Yuan Yang.
Key words: Yuan Yang; lightening pot of character; Mrs Jia; resist