There is virtue without talent. —— Zhang Dai, a litterateur in the late Ming and early Qing dynasties, "Public Memorial to Mrs. Qi"

Ming Dynasty Zhang Dai's "Public Memorial to Mrs. Qi" quotes Ming Dynasty Chen Mei Gong's words. The main idea of ??this sentence is: A woman's best virtue is that she has no talent. Preferring boys over girls and discriminating against women are one of the most unreasonable social phenomena in feudal society. Chen Meigong said: "A husband who is virtuous is a man of talent, ~." Once this fallacy came out, it spread widely and had far-reaching influence. ~ In Muduhui, it has become a popular word among people and a standard for measuring women's virtue at that time. It blatantly promotes women to be docile and incompetent and to depend on men's surnames, which is the spiritual opium that stifles women's intelligence. It can be used to illustrate the discrimination against women in the old society. This sentence also means "It is virtue for a woman to have no talent".