【正文】 ary To sum up, despite that they have different personalities and different ways of emancipation， the four female characters share the spirit of womanism since they are“ mitted to survival and wholeness of entire people， male and female” and their sisterhood builds up strength and courage to fight for a better future for all black women and seek a harmonious coexistence between men and women． Even in modern times， the spirit of womanism reflected by the four females is of great importance and significance for women still in suffering, especially for those of color, for this spirit conveys hope， enhances strength and inspires action for a better life． 7 3. Unique Features of Womanist Culture Reflected in The Color Purple Blues music The blues music is black women?s tradition which manifests their creativity. It arrived in America approximately around 1900. It is another integral part of the African American culture, especially of the rural south on the 1920s. Blues usually expresses the real concerns of the women who sing them and those who regularly listen to them. The blues is rooted in religious songs, field hollers, shouts, and work songs. Its subject matter bears similarities to songs found in Africa, indicating a close kinship to traditional African songs. In form, the blues music follows the call and response pattern of the African tradition, which is based on the experience of the collective. It is an “individual style presented in an interactive performance.” (quoted in Walker 1982:71) Blues theme contains every kind of life experience, including love and hate, sex a nd death, sufferings and happiness. The blues singer intends to create a mood, a sense of togetherness among the people. Basing on the collective?s shared knowledge, a blues singer builds a strong bond with her audience and gives voice to the spirit of the blues in order to bring relief to the suffers. Contrast to the abstract Christianity, the blues is concrete, like the African music. Africans do not divide the world into spiritual and secular domains. The spiritual domain of the blues is different from the conventional Christian preaching. The blues begins a new relationship between the individual and the world. It is a profound transformation of the individual. Meanwhile, the blues sustains a fundamental African world view. It can be considered as a follower of African culture, which opens to the spiritual world and provides opportunities for the social and psychological growth of the individual. In The Color Purple, Shug?s music helps Celie to negotiate a new relationship with the world, one based on an understanding of the holiness of all living things. She teaches Celie to think of God in a new way, as a force that all people carry inside them. Black women?s songs have been a particularly radical site of feminist and African American resistance and selfaffirmation, a discourse that articulates a cultural and political struggle over sexual relations. In the novel, Shug and Mary Agnes are blues singers. By performing the blues, they “bring together the transformative powers of feminist politics and the African American blues matrix.” (quoted in Winter 1997:53) They articulate a struggle that is directed against the objectification of female sexuality within a patriarchal order, and try to reclaim women?s bodies as the sexual and sensuous subjects of women?s songs. The blues? theme of love, sexuality and freedom of expression is central to Shug. She crosses the boundaries which usually separate the sacred, by bringing the spiritual power of music to her secular performance. She is always sticking to her basic idea that God wants people to appreciate the good things of the world, including sexual pleasure, music and dancing, the wonders of nature, and “the color purple in a field”. 8 She extends the realm of sacred to include all creations. Obviously, the blues music forms clear clues in The Color Purple. We can also take the whole article as a piece of blue music. It expresses how the black women struggle against the unfair society with their intelligence. On the one hand, the blues music gives the major character in the novel more excellent space to live happily. On the other hand, the blues music bees a signal of cultural transmission. Sewing Sewing is a daily matter for housewives. The thread, shuttle and cloth are not only a kind of handcraft, and it?s more like an art media for people to express thoughts and emotion. What?more, sewing is a symbol of African American creativity. The critic Waters Dowson Emme once said. In The Color Purple , the black women defeats the racism and sexism by sewing pants and quilts.( Emme,1991:240259) Alice Walker thinks highly of the African American?s creativity in her prose In Search of Our Mothers’ Gardens: Womanist Prose. In the eyes of Walker, the daily behavior such as garden, sewing, cooking, telling stories is very important for black women. These are the ways to express themselves and achieve themselves, at the same time, these are the ways to liberate themselves. That?s why Walker links the growth of black women with sewing. And they succeed at last. Sewing Clothes for the Family The critic Tavormina says: “sewing clothes can help people in the munity establish the relationship, especially the family relationship.” （ Tavormina， 1986： 220300） Celie?s sewing quilts plays an important role in establishing and keeping the relationship between her sister and her daughter. For Celie, it is a way to express love for her daughter Olivia. Owing to the incest, Olivia is sold to others after her birth. Celie is deprived of the rights of mother. Several years later, Celie es across a woman with a girl .The intuition tells her that this girl is hers, but she isn?t sure. So she remembers that she