What is `the role of women and children in the chinese society? i need it for my history class?

Question

What is `the role of women and children in the chinese society? i need it for my history class?

Answer 1

Chinese society when?  Women in present-day Chinese society are obviously very different from women in medieval chinese society.

Generally speaking, I think women in Chinese society were always regarded as subordinate to men, as they generally have been in most societies for most of history. Confuscius, whose philosophy was extremely influential in China, certainly regarded women as inferior.  Wives were expected to obey their husbands, and a man who could afford it could have more than one wife.  Peasant women, who would have made up the majority of women in chinese society, would mostly have had hard lives, working in the fields and doing all the domestic work at home as well.

However, some women were very well-educated and some managed to attain positions of power.  The Empress Wu in the 7th century for instance, worked her way up from being a concubine to being Empress of Chine, and ruled in her own right for many years. She created the first civil service exams, and reduced the power of the army. She encourage scholarship, consolidated the T'ang dynasty and unified the empire.  And the empress s**+ Dun is credited with inventing paper, in about 105 AD.  There were some exceptional women poets, like Ts'ai Yen, who lived in around 200 Ad, and Xue Tao (768-831).  Li Fu-jen (c907-960) is credited with inventing bamboo painting.  Li Ch'ing Chao (c. 1084-1151) is recognised as china's greatest woman poet. Kuan Tao-Sheng (1262-1319) is China's best-known bamboo artist and calligrapher.  Many of her works are still extant.  When Wang Duanshu published her Classic Poetry of Famous women in 1644, it contained the poem of over 1000 women of the Ming dynasty.  So in spite of the officially low position of women in society, many women were well-educated and respected for their literary and artistic work.

Respect for the old was an important aspect of Chinese society, ancestors were worshipped, and young people were expected to be very respectful to the old.  Mothers as well as fathers were treated with respect, and the old of both sexes were revered.

Children were very strictly brought up and expected to be very respectful and obedient to their parents.  The children of peasant families and artisans and tradsemen would have been expected to help with the work as soon as they were old enough.  children of the middle classes would be intensively educated, boys would mostly be hoping to join the immense chinese civil service, which involved passing exams.  Although girls would probably have been less intensively educated than boys, it is evident that many were educated, from the number of women poets and artists who are known in chinese history.

Answer 2

Are you expecting us to come into the exam hall and write the answer paper for you as well?!!

Answer 3

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