<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="1" > Liu Bannong invented a Chinese character, but was scolded by women for three years, and now everyone uses it</h1>
As we all know, china was a feudal society in ancient times, and in the feudal history of our country for more than two thousand years, it has always been the practice of male superiority over women, resulting in a very low social status of women, and ancient women were attached to men all their lives and were appendages of men. In ancient times, the polygamous system was practiced, and men could have three wives and four concubines hugging each other on the left and right, spending time and drinking outside, and women were bound by moral etiquette. From an early age, women are taught three from three to four virtues from one to the end, and after marriage, they do not go out of the door and do not go out, teach their husbands and children at home, and serve their in-laws. Under this social atmosphere of male superiority and female inferiority, it is a serious preference for sons over daughters, and in ancient times, it was believed that men could pass on the generations, inherit their father's business, and serve the country, so from the princes and nobles to the common people, everyone was happy to have boys, which also led to the social status of women getting lower and lower.
With the end of feudal society, this idea of male superiority and female inferiority also disappeared into the red river of history. After the fall of the Qing Dynasty, in the Republic of China period, equality between men and women began to be advocated, and women also got rid of the shackles of feudal customs, could read and go to school, and dedicate their own strength to the country. But at that time, there was still no good word to replace the title of women, with the rise of the vernacular movement, English prevailed in our country, in English will use she to refer to women, but this word was very inconvenient to translate at that time, people will always translate she as "his daughter", "that woman's". And our modern refers to women's "she", when it was invented, it was also scolded by women for three years, when the feminist movement has risen, women began to yearn for freedom, advocating equality between men and women, and because of this, when Liu Bannong invented "she", she was scolded by women for three years.
Liu Bannong is a pioneer of China's new cultural movement, and has also left a strong and colorful stroke in modern history, Liu Bannong has been extremely intelligent since childhood, and when he is 6 years old, he can do couplets and poetry, which can be said to be a little prodigy. In 1917, Liu Bannong served as a professor of preparatory law at Peking University, and also participated in the editing of "New Youth", actively participating in the literary revolution, opposing literary language and advocating vernacular language. Liu Bannong has been dealing with words all his life, and because of this, he found that the distinction between male and female titles is blurred, which greatly affected literary creation. In many literary works, the reference to women has always been used "other woman" and "that woman's", and later began to use "Yi", but this word can still be used by both men and women, not unique to women. So Liu Bannong turned over a lot of books, spent a long time, decided to use "she" to refer to women, Liu Bannong's move caused a great response at the time.
Many women believe that Liu Bannong's move is disrespectful to women, contrary to equality between men and women, leaving him next to the herringbone to men, while women use the female character next to the female character, is it a metaphor for women who are not human, at that time, while advocating equality between men and women, while in the Chinese characters, they specially separated men and women, is this not a contradiction, in this way, Liu Bannong has been scolded for three years. Later, with the passage of time, people found that when using the word "she", it can be more intuitively expressed as a woman, which is very convenient to use, and gradually people have slowly accepted this word, and we are still using this word until now.
In the Republic of China, which has just got rid of the feudal concept, some very simple things will be magnified by people, because the injustice caused by feudal society to women has become a shadow, so it will be so resistant to this word at that time, but good things can stand the scrutiny of time, for Liu Bannong, we should all thank him for his invention.