Many people are attacking those traditional feudal ideas, and the earliest origin of these ideas originated in the Shang Zhou Period, but when it comes to the controversial idea of male superiority and female inferiority, it must originate from one person, that is, a talented female Ban Zhao in history, then many people will wonder, how did it originate from her? And listen to the author slowly.
Ban Zhao was born in 45 AD in the northeast of Xianyang, Shaanxi Province, from Shuxiang Mendi, there are three children in the family, Ban Zhao is the third oldest, his father is a knowledgeable scholar, but also specialized in the study of history, and his two older brothers, one inherited his father's legacy, one is fighting in the battlefield, invincible.
Among them, the elder brother Ban Gu is a general on the battlefield, it is worth mentioning that Ban Gu was originally a scholar, but did not want to copy historical materials for the imperial court, so he abandoned Wen Congwu, while his younger brother Ban Zhao was a person who loved to learn, full of talent, and later went to the official palace to work for the imperial court, but when he arrived at Ban Zhao's side, his life was more miserable.
Ban Zhao has been married to Uncle Cao Shi since he was 14 years old, but it was not long before Uncle Cao Shi died young, and since then, Ban Zhao has been widowed, his ears do not hear things outside the window, and he is bent on studying historiography, and others see that Ban Zhao is a very gentle and elegant woman, because her behavior is very in line with the etiquette of the time, and she has not disgraced the Cao family at all.
At that time, Ban Chao's brother Ban Chao was working in the imperial court, but Ban Chao was a nostalgic person, very much wanted to return home, Ban Zhao knew, and even sent a letter to the then Han He Emperor, Han He Emperor was very moved after reading it, so he let Ban Chao directly return to his home, which is a wish of Ban Chao, but it is also in view of this, Han he Emperor admired Ban Zhao's literary talent very much, and after the death of his brother Ban Chao, let Ban Zhao go to write Ban Chao's unfinished "Book of Han".
But it is also because of this, Ban Zhao has borne the insult of up to two thousand years, when Ban Zhao helped Ban Chao revise the unfinished "Book of Han", when Ban Zhao had already entered his old age, the history books recorded that at this time, Ban Zhao thought that the women in the family had reached the age of talking about marriage, and then after marrying and then making the people of the world laugh because of basic etiquette, then how could they be respected?
During the ten years of Ban Zhao's revision of the book, the first thing was to sort out the "Book of Han", the second was to complete the eight tables, and finally to disseminate the Book of Han. Ban Zhaogong, who was worried that women did not understand etiquette, added seven chapters of the "Female Commandment" to the "Book of Han" to motivate the women at that time, and the "Female Commandment" was divided into seven chapters, namely "Humble", "Husband and Wife", "Respect", "Women's Behavior", "Concentration", "Qu Cong" and "Uncle".
Generally speaking, it is this "Women's Commandment" that women at that time must abide by the way of women at home, first of all, to admit that they are very humble in society as women, they must never commit the following crimes to collide with their husbands, husbands sing women are the most fundamental quality, at night they must wait until their husbands fall asleep before they can sleep, get up to make breakfast for their husbands, the husband's status is even greater than his parents, he cannot rebel against his husband because of anything, and he must obey his husband unconditionally.
Among them are four guidelines, the first of which is not to dress up brightly. The second thing is to have rules, not to be fooled. Third, you can't laugh and play, and you have lost your posture. After the fourth is suspended, he cannot marry anyone else and is regarded as chastity. For the in-laws, they should also be treated as their own biological parents, they need to be unconditionally obeyed, it is normal to be angry in front of relatives, they cannot return their mouths, and they must maintain a state of harmonious coexistence is the most fundamental upbringing as a woman.
This book is considered by many people to be a "bad book", probably because the book is too oppressive to women, many people feel that Ban Zhao is really unreasonable, for this reason, the reputation of Ban Zhao has gradually become mixed, and gradually declined.