Actually, it's not. The Yuan Dynasty was a Chinese Central Plains dynasty, and at least most of the time, Han people and Han women had status.
The society of the Yuan Dynasty was relatively free and open, so that the famous "Zhang Sanfeng" was still obsessed with the Yuan Dynasty after the establishment of the Ming Dynasty.
The woman we are going to talk about today is a typical example of the Yuan Dynasty. She is a famous talented woman. She is Guan Daosheng. .
Guan Daosheng was a famous painter and poet in the early Yuan Dynasty. She is from Zhejiang. She was smart and talented since she was a child.
She later married Zhao Mengfu, a famous painter in Yuan Dynasty. Guan Daosheng came to Beijing and met Zhao Mengfu. They fell in love at first sight and got married.
Zhao Mengfu, a descendant of the royal family in Song Dynasty, is versatile and brilliant. Later, he was appreciated by Kublai Khan in Yuan Shizu and was appointed as a senior official.
As Zhao Mengfu was an official of the DPRK, his official duties were constant at ordinary times, so Guan Daosheng assumed the responsibility of being a housekeeper.
Both of them are like-minded literati. Zhao Mengfu was born in a noble family and was very cultured, so his marriage was still happy.
But there will be conflicts between husband and wife for a long time. As a descendant of the nobility, Zhao Mengfu is inevitably arrogant and stubborn.
When two people are together, they need one party to compromise, or compromise with each other, so that the marriage can last. It is Guan Daosheng who is responsible for their marriage compromise.
Guan Daosheng can always use her gentleness and wisdom to resolve the contradictions between them.
Guan Daosheng is not only a virtuous wife, but also a good mother who is good at teaching children.
Her children are very cultured and respect their mother very much.
Later, Zhao Mengfu was canonized as a subordinate by the Yuan government, and Wei Gong and Zhao Mengfu were named "Mrs. Wei", which was the highest title of folk women at that time.
But Zhao Mengfu resigned because he was tired of the internal struggle in the Yuan Dynasty, and Zhao Mengfu supported her husband's decision.
Legend has it that Zhao Mengfu was tired of Guan Daosheng's old age and declining color, and planned to take a concubine. Guan Daosheng neither agreed nor opposed it, but wrote a poem "I Nong Ci", which is a famous Yuanqu. The content is to tell her husband that you have me and I have you between husband and wife. It is not that you can divide it if you want, nor that you can break it if you want.
When Zhao Mengfu saw his wife's poems, he was both admired and ashamed, so he gave up the idea of concubinage.
Later, when Guan Daosheng died, Zhao Mengfu wrote an epitaph for his dead wife, expressing the regret and pain of a generation of writers.
The love between Zhao Mengfu and Guan Daosheng was atypical, but Guan Daosheng's experience was typical in Yuan Dynasty. The Yuan Dynasty was not like many people imagined that Han people had no status and women had no status.
The yuan dynasty did divide the people in China into several classes, with privileged classes. In the past few years, there has indeed been an extreme policy of excluding non-Mongolians.
On the whole, however, the society in Yuan Dynasty was free and open, because the management of Mongolian aristocrats was relatively extensive, far less meticulous than that in Ming and Qing Dynasties. The social classification in Yuan Dynasty was still classified according to the official property, which was a typical "class contradiction". Han people can do whatever they want with money, while Mongolians become untouchables without money. "Ethnic contradiction" is just a fascinating soup that Han literati later poured on the people of the whole country.