Women are literate, but those who can understand the great righteousness are inherently virtuous, but they are rare; others like to read songbook novels, provoke evil hearts, and even dance and play with the law, and do no ugly things, but it is better not to be illiterate, and to keep the clumsy and peaceful division is healed. A woman's talentlessness is virtue, which can be described as the most important word - Chen Jiru
From the beginning of the transformation from a matrilineal clan society to a patrilineal clan society in the tribal period to the basic elimination of feudal ideas, China has always been in a pathological society in which men are superior to women. In fact, because of the existence of some women with real power such as Wu Zetian, Princess Anle, and Princess Taiping, the status of women during the Tang Dynasty has been improved. However, by the time of the Two Song Dynasties, a branch of Confucianism such as Cheng Zhu Lixue appeared, and the status of women was completely broken into the bottom, and by the Ming and Qing dynasties, Cheng Zhu Lixue was enshrined as a grand ceremony, especially the Qing Dynasty also distorted the original meaning of Cheng Zhu Lixue to a certain extent. Therefore, during the Ming and Qing dynasties, the status of women was very low, and there was such an ugly custom as foot binding.
In fact, as early as more than a thousand years before the birth of Cheng Zhu Lixue, some people have expressed a similar concept of "women without talent is morality" in their own books, she believes that women do not need and can not compete in front of men, and it is best not to show their faces outside. The most ironic thing is that the woman who has this kind of "female talentless theory" is called by many people as the first talented woman in ancient China, and she is the talented woman Ban Zhao in the Eastern Han Dynasty.
Ban Zhao was born around 45 years ago, and her family lineage was very prominent: her father Ban Biao was one of the most famous Confucian masters of the Eastern Han Dynasty at that time, and also a historical official enshrined in the court. However, Ban Biao used the sage way of Confucius meng from an early age to demand his son Ban Gu and daughter Ban Zhao, so the brothers and sisters spent their childhoods under the discipline of their fathers.
However, it is also a strict master and a high apprentice, and the achievements of Ban Gu and Ban Zhao's brothers and sisters two days later are also incomparable. In 1989, Ban Gu followed the Eastern Han general Dou Xian on a campaign against the Northern Xiongnu as an accompanying recorder, and after Dou Xian attacked the Northern Xiongnu, he wrote the famous "Feng Yanran Mountain Inscription" under the Yanran Mountain, in which "Angu's heirs, restoring the realm of the universe, and vibrating the heavenly voice of the Great Han." "It's extremely heroic. In his later years, Ban Gu also collected a lot of historical materials and wrote the Book of Han, which made great contributions to modern archaeological work.
Her younger sister Ban Zhao was also a woman who did not allow Su Mei to take over her father's and brother's work in the middle of the dynasty, collecting historical materials and compiling and continuing to write the Book of Han. Even the emperors at that time, Han and Emperor, praised Ban Zhao's exploits, and often asked their concubines to visit Ban Zhao as a student and call her "everyone". After Ban Zhao's death in 117, Empress Deng of the Eastern Han Dynasty at that time was still wearing mourning clothes to pay tribute to Ban Zhao, and as a historian, Ban Zhao could be described as a favorite.
Ban Zhao's works have not been left to modern times, only a few dozen, but each one can be called a masterpiece, but the "Female Commandment" is considered to be a poisonous book that has poisoned chinese women for nearly 2,000 years, because the existence of this book Ban Zhao can be said to be late and unsafe, and he completely wants to impose his childhood bondage on all women in future generations.
Ban Zhao repeatedly emphasized in the "Female Commandment" that the role of women is to have children and teach their husbands and children, and the greatest merit is to cultivate a good next generation for their husband's family. After studying the Female Commandment, historians believe that Ban Zhao's thought is too harsh, especially the core idea in the couple's chapter: if a man cannot control a woman, it is equivalent to abandoning the etiquette system and losing its majesty; if a woman does not listen to the man's teachings, it is equivalent to deviance.