A concrete example of the low status of ancient women

1, "Jealousy" in the seven ancient books specifically pointed out that it was legal for men to take concubinage in ancient China.

2. "Three Obediences" is the product of the ancient society in which men are superior to women, requiring women to obey men unconditionally; "Three obedience" means that when a woman is young, she follows her father and brother and marries her husband, who dies of her son.

3. "Four Virtues" is also a narrow moral requirement formed by the fact that women in ancient society have no right to set foot in the public sphere. "Four virtues" refer to the four qualities that a woman must possess after receiving education and training in her husband's family: chastity, obedience, decent speech, dignified appearance and skillful housework, that is, female virtue, female speech, female appearance and female merit.

4, ancient women's foot binding, according to legend, foot binding began after the Southern Tang, Ming and Qing Dynasties, and even the road was unstable.

5. Ancient women were not allowed to go out at will. Women need to behave dignified and steady, so don't expose them easily, lest they be considered unstable and extroverted.

"Three Obediences and Four Virtues" violates the equal spirit of modern rule of law. Article 48 of the Constitution of China clearly stipulates: "China people and China women enjoy equal rights with men in political, economic, cultural, social and family life."

This means that women enjoy equal rights with men in social and family life. "Three Obediences and Four Virtues" requires women to "not marry from their fathers, marry from their husbands and die from their sons", which puts women in a subordinate position to men and reflects the dominant and subordinate relationship between men and women in ancient society.

References:

Baidu encyclopedia-three obedience and four virtues