In ancient times, everyone didn't go to work, what did they do in the boudoir all day long?
used to describe those ladies who don't go out of the door and don't step out of the second door, as if they have to be locked in their homes every day and can't interact with the outside world.
But then again, if these girls really stay at home every day, what are they going to do to pass the time? You can't just stare at the wall every day, can you?
In fact, the rules about not allowing women to go out are not ancient to the present.
At first, the status of women may not be as good as that of men, but the right to move freely was still there, especially in the Shang Dynasty, but there were female generals who could lead the army and fight.
They can all come out to fight, so naturally they can go out casually.
In the Western Zhou Dynasty, although with the formation of the ritual music system, women's political status was greatly suppressed, but this does not mean that women have no rights at all.
Needless to say, the women of the nobility did not need to be mentioned, according to the rules of Zhou etiquette, when Zhou Tianzi and the princes held a ceremony together, the queen would also drink and chat with the wives of these princes and doctors.
As for the women of the common people, they are also quite open, for example, "The Book of Songs" and "Hooligans", there are sentences about sending children to Shiqi, as for Dunqiu.
In other words, women can also move out with men at this time.
There are even some bold women who will take the initiative to recommend themselves, such as the famous saltless woman, who took the initiative to advise King Qi Wei after learning that King Qi Wei was extravagant, leaving a good story and becoming a representative of virtuous women.
In addition, the concubines of those princes will often accompany the princes to participate in some banquets, as a means for the princes to win people's hearts.
For example, once when the king of Chuzhuang had a banquet for his ministers, he asked one of his concubines, Xu Ji, to toast the courtiers, but a gust of wind blew and the lights were extinguished, and a bold general took the opportunity to scare Xu Ji lightly.
Then Xu Ji took off the red tassel on his helmet, and he ran into Chu Zhuang because he didn't find the bold general, but asked everyone to take off the red tassel, which was the baby meeting that people talked about.
After that, until the Song Dynasty, although the political status of Chinese women was relatively low, but the life was still relatively free, such as the chastity archway that later had to be observed for their husbands was a joke!
In those years, the widow remarried, but there was nothing to be ashamed of, not to mention anything else, just say that the mother of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, the Queen Mother, had a daughter before marrying Emperor Jing of the Han Dynasty!
As for the women of the people, they can not only come out generously and wander the streets, but also do business.
For example, there is such a song in "Yuefu Song": Today, there is Huo Jianu, surnamed Feng Mingzidu, relying on the general's power and flirting with the restaurant Hu.
Although it is a satire on the bad atmosphere, it can also be seen that women at that time could sell alcohol and open shops.
In addition, there was also a famous physiognomic Xu Cheng in the Western Han Dynasty, who was also a woman.
By the time of the Tang Dynasty, when the atmosphere was also open, Chinese women played more playfully, and many women, including Princess Taiping, were good at playing polo, which was really heroic.
In addition, Li Yuan's daughter, Princess Zhaoyang, who was also a famous general at that time, made the first contribution to the capture of Guanzhong by the Tang Dynasty!
It can be said that before the emergence of Cheng Zhu Lixue in the Song Dynasty, Chinese society was still very open to women.
It's also quite ironic, obviously the Song Dynasty was the beginning of the dynasty that imprisoned women in the courtyard of a deep house, but in such a dynasty, there will be a novel about the widow of the Yang family, and I really don't know who is satirizing whom?
It's just that although there was a fashion of binding small feet in the Song Dynasty, and the physicists represented by Zhu Xi also put forward the idea that women should die for their husbands, but because Zhu Xi was not very popular in the Song Dynasty, he was even beaten into a traitorous villain for a time.
Therefore, the women of the Song Dynasty were not so restrained, and even in many Song Dynasty documents, scenes of women's gladiatorial battles were depicted.
It was the Yuan Dynasty that really put Han women in the norms.
The reason is not because of the rise of the so-called science, but because the status of the Han people is so low that if a Mongol kills a Han man, he only needs to take 47 strokes of the board and then pay for the silver burned.
In this case, if a Mongolian robbed the wife and daughter of the Han people, it was really a robbery for nothing, so the Han had to put his daughter in a deep house compound.
Then, it is Xi that becomes nature, and naturally becomes rules, and rules become shackles.
So, how do these girls pass the time?
The first is to do needlework, in ancient times, a girl who could not be a female red was to be laughed at, so learning to Xi needlework in the boudoir to be a female red is an important way for them to pass the time.
But you can't just be a female celebrity every day, right?
People from wealthier families will hire a private school teacher for their daughters, let their daughter Xi s learn some books like women's virtues, and if they are particularly wealthy, they will let their daughters learn Xi piano, chess, calligraphy and painting, and train their daughters to become talented women.
As for poor girls, they have to do housework at home.
