1. Wrapping feet

Foot binding is an act that destroys the normal development of limbs. A woman who binds her feet should bind her feet from an early age and slowly bend the bones of her feet to make them deformed.

A pair of small feet after foot-binding, not only have various inconveniences in real life, but also women have to bear great disability and pain in the whole process of foot-binding. This kind of thing, which has no practical effect and makes the sufferer extremely painful, has become popular and social custom for nearly a thousand years.

2, wives and concubines in groups

The ancient people married three wives and four concubines, the main purpose is to carry on the family line. The meaning of three wives and four concubines should mean polygamy, and the ancient emperors also had seventy-two concubines in three palaces, six hospitals. The so-called three wives and four concubines in ancient times mainly refers to a marriage system in feudal period. It is a persecution of women.

If a man is widowed, it's a bad habit for him to remarry, and for a woman to remarry. Men are superior to women, and women can only be attached to men, which is the result of the social system, and this result has intensified the hierarchical differentiation between men and women, so there have been groups of men's wives and concubines, while women can only be faithful to each other.

3. Finger-belly marriage

Old marriage custom. Popular in vast areas of the country. That is, when the children are not yet born, the parents of both parties agree to be married. There are also people who are afraid that when men and women grow up, they will not recognize each other, or that one party will not keep its promise and cut the skirt into two pieces, each holding one piece as a voucher, which is called "finger-belly cutting" or "finger-belly cutting". Rulers sometimes forbid it, but it has no practical effect.

in the northern and southern dynasties, the phenomenon of finger-belly marriage spread to the people, which made this phenomenon very popular.

in the yuan dynasty, the law began to stop this bad habit. "Records of Criminal Law in the History of Yuan Dynasty" records: "When men and women discuss marriage, those who decide to cut their fingertips are forbidden."

fingering marriage is also prohibited in Ming and Qing dynasties. After liberation, the bad habit of finger-to-belly marriage was truly fundamentally reversed.

4. Superstition

When faced with a huge unknown space, people often put forward their own explanations. The ancients were awed by the thunder, so they put forward their own explanation "Raytheon, Heaven" and worshipped it. Later people call it superstition.

Superstition refers to people's blind belief or worship of things. Superstition in a narrow sense, according to the established habits after the liberation of our country, refers to people's thoughts and behaviors of believing in astrology, divination, geomantic omen, fate and ghosts.

5. Women's lack of talent is virtue

According to the research of Professor Liu Yongcong, a Hong Kong scholar, the origin of the famous saying "Women's lack of talent is virtue" should have been in the works of Ming people.

It is mainly believed that it is the words of Chen Jiru (Mei Gong), a Ming Dynasty: "Women are literate, but those who can understand the righteousness are solid virtues, but they are rare; Others like to read Quben novels, stir up evil spirits, and even dance literature and tricks to make a scandal-free thing. Instead, it is better to be illiterate and keep quiet.

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