Many people believe that during the Ming and Qing dynasties, Chinese women’s social status was very low and they were severely oppressed in all aspects of social life. Isn’t that true? Recently, history stated in an article that the social status of women in the Ming and Qing dynasties was not as low as we thought.
Let’s talk about foot binding first. In fact, foot-binding is mainly popular among the middle and upper classes of Han Chinese. Working women rarely have foot-binding, and women from ethnic minorities do not, so for most women, this persecution does not exist.
Besides, women’s low family status is actually determined by many factors. In addition to gender, there are also various factors such as generation, blood relationship, and gender. In many cases, gender is not that important. The most typical is "Dream of Red Mansions". In Jia's house, the man with the highest status is not Jia's mother .
What’s more interesting is that from an international perspective, the status of Chinese women is not necessarily lower than that of other countries. Let’s talk about beating wives. In the West, beating wives has been legal until 1871 in the United States. Only then did legislation prohibit beating wives. It was not until 1880 that similar laws were enacted in Britain. By this time, the Opium War had been fought for 40 years. In China, as early as the Qin Dynasty, it was legally prohibited to beat wives. . . . .
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