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The Role Of Women In Ancient China

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Women in ancient China were inferior to men. This meant that their whole lives were spent being subservient to the men in their families. Confucius taught that women's roles we to look after the men in their families. He believed that it was not acceptable for a woman to have her own ambitions and that she should have barely any life outside her own home. …show more content…

When she is young, she must submit to her son. These are the rules of property.” By Mother of Mencius (a follower of Confucius). Women were expected to produce male children. In order to be accepted by their family and experience feelings of belonging in the family. To bring honour they must have a birth of a baby boy or have marriage. It was a part of the three unfilial acts. To illustrate this, source 2: Ban Zhao female writer from the Han dynasty “On the third day after the birth of a girl, […] Now to lay the baby below the bed plainly indicated that she was lowly

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