After human beings entered the patriarchal society, male superiority over female inferiority has become a trend. However, the Confucian emphasis on "three cardinal guides and five permanents" has made "male superiority over female inferiority" a kind of ethos, which is like a catalyst, accelerating the formation of this ethos!
In ancient matriarchal clan society, mothers were respected and worshipped, and people knew that they had mothers but didn't know they had fathers. Women occupied a dominant position in the clan commune, and the matriarchal inheritance system and the marriage and residence system of men marrying women and living with women were implemented. At this time, it is equivalent to the late Paleolithic period to the Neolithic period. When the patriarchal clan society was established, men gradually occupied an important position in the main production departments, while women retired to a secondary position in production. The matriarchal line was calculated according to the paternal line, and the system of patrilineal inheritance and married residence in which women married men = lived from their husbands began to be implemented. At this time, it is about equivalent to the Bronze Age and the Early Iron Age. It gradually changed from the worship of female yin to the worship of male root, and the consciousness of male superiority and female inferiority was born. From the Huaxia nationality in China to the Zhou Dynasty, a patriarchal society was formed, with men subordinate to the family and women subordinate to men. After the Eastern Zhou Dynasty, the aristocratic class practiced the concubine system of multiple wives, and strictly separated them. Confucian ethics made various regulations on women's behavior. In the Han Dynasty, there was a further development of laws to praise chastity. The seven articles of Women's Commandments by Ban Mingli, a female scholar in the Eastern Han Dynasty, systematically expounded the concept of men being superior to women, the principle of husband being a wife, the principle of three obedience and the instrument of four virtues. Since then, the concept of men being superior to women has penetrated into the whole society, widely manifested in all aspects of ideology and real life, and brought deep oppression, discrimination and endless pain to women. It was not until modern times that the enlightenment thought came into being and the western democratic thought was imported that this ideological imprisonment was gradually broken.
Here are some ancient books about the inferiority of men over women in China.
On the Book of Changes: "Heaven respects the earth and condescends to it, and it's up to you to be humble, and it's up to you to be humble .................................................................................................... Han Ban Zhao's "Women's Commandments. Couples": "The husband has the meaning of remarriage, and the husband and wife are the father of two fitness, so it is said that the husband is also heaven; Heaven can't escape, and the husband can't violate it ... The story of a husband is like a wife, and he is the same as a dutiful son and a loyal minister. " Liezi Tianrui: "Men and women are different, and men are superior to women."