In ancient times, because male superiority and female inferiority usually had to divide the male and female hierarchies upwards and downwards, where did the male left and female right habits we talk about today come from?
In ancient China, the philosophical relationship between men and women was very close. They believe that the two opposites of things and people in the universe are yin and yang. Things in nature are large, long, up, down, left and right, and so on. The ancients classified it into large, long, upper, and left yang, and small, short, lower, and right yin. The masculine is strong, the feminine is weak. As far as human personality is concerned, men's sexual violence and strength belong to the yang to the left, and women's sexual tenderness and yin to the right. In the application of traditional Chinese medicine, the male left and the female right indicate the physiological difference between men and women. As far as the diagnosis of pulse habits is concerned, the man takes the qi and divides the pulse in the left hand, and the woman takes the blood pulse in the right hand.
The habit of male left and female right has been inherited to this day, as early as more than 2,000 years ago in the Warring States period. In the ancient feudal society, many things were distinguished between high and low, even the east, west, south, north, and back, left and right. In ancient times, the south was regarded as supreme, and the north was symbolized as defeat and submission. Therefore, the palaces and temples are facing due south, and the emperor's seat is facing north and south; from the Han chinese point of view, losing a battle and submitting is regarded as losing the north. It is precisely because the south is honorable, the ancient people built houses, and no one dared to take the south of the meridian, all of which were far east or west, so as not to commit taboos and get guilty.
In addition to the south and the north, the ancients also led by the east and the west in the direction. The residence of the empress and the concubines is mainly from the East Palace and the West Palace, and the owner and landlord in modern Chinese also come from this.
As for the front and back, the ancient emperor was the supreme, he sat facing south and north, and his left side was the east. Therefore, while advocating the East, the left also became noble. During the Three Kingdoms period, Eastern Wu occupied Jiangdong, also known as Jiangzuo. The ritual system of wenzuo and right, the concept of male left and female right, etc., are all reflections of the respect for the left.