Different Levels of Social Statuses in Treatment of Women Tang and Song Dynasty
- How Women were treated
- talk to be quiet
- not allowed to speak their mind
- sons preferred
- little voice in marriage partner
- expected to cook, take care of husband, make sons
- dominated by men
- All-China Women's Federation Survey
- 1/3 of respondents say that men are more able than women
- 1/2 of respondents believe home is the best place for a woman
- Song Dynasty
- women started binding their feet to make them smaller
- population explosion
- prosperous economy, culture, technology advances
- northern song (zhao kuangyin), southern song (zhao gou)
- Tang Dynasty
- emperor and his family were the most powerful
- then aristocracy
- the bureaucracy
- divided into two levels of honor (scholars and functionaries)
- then eunuchs (servants in the palace)
- then clergy
- then peasants
- lastly, slaves
- Tang Dynasty Laws
- made sure social classes behaved in the right manner
- Tang Women
- respect and power
- allowed to join in discussions and debates with men of high social rank
- men were intimidated of women with high rankings
Song Dynasty
- When
- 960-1279
- Northern Song ended as Southern began
- Key People
- Taizu- first emperor
- Taizong- unified China be restoring economy and rebuilding infrastructure
- Wang Anshi- tried to even out social classes but was opposed by the rich
- Yu Fei- military leader
- Before
- Later Zhou Dynasty
- After
- Yuan Dynasty (conquered Southern Song)
- Known For
- Chinese opera
- paper cutting
- China's Age of Invention
- discovered Marco Polo
- typography and compass invented
- application of gunpowder developed
- Fall of the Song
- Jin defeated Northern Song
- clansmen captured, Zhao Gou escaped
- Gou established Southern Song
- Yuan Dynasty captured Lin'an, ending the Song Dynasty
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