Women in the Ancient Chinese Culture (#1) http://www.buzzle.com/articles/women-in-the-ancient-chinese-culture.html The women in ancient Chinese culture led a tough life. They were humbled and humiliated before men. They were not allowed to attain literacy. They lived their life according to the Confucian principles. Read this article to know more about women in the ancient Chinese culture...
The women in ancient Chinese culture lived according to the rules set by Confucius in his analects. According to Confucius, women were not equal to men and were not worthy to have literary and education. For almost two thousand years, the life of the Chinese woman was unbearable. During the years of growing up, a Chinese woman had to listen to her father and other male members in the family. A woman in ancient China was not given a name; instead she was called "daughter no1", "daughter no2" and so on. …show more content…
It is said that in ancient China, men were allowed to have more than one wife. If the husband of a young Chinese woman died, she was not allowed to remarry. Death penalty was given, if she remarried. The main job of a woman in ancient China was to bear sons. Here we look at a few famous women in the ancient Chinese