Essay

This is one of the greatest dishonors a girl can do to her family. The role of a women is to provide the family with boys so that they can bring honor to the family, at the time women are seen more as an object or a bargaining chip for families looking to gain either connections with other families or looking to further their ancestry.

All countries celebrate the union of marriage in a unique manner. From the beginning of China law and religious practice have regulated marriage. In Early China the marriage celebration was very different in many aspects than is know as the Traditional marriage of the 21st Century. In Ancient China, weddings embodied a woman’s dependency on money from her family to her new spouse. Also at the time there was a transfer of a woman's dowry, which embodied the brides father providing the husband with gifts. This was made if the marriage was voluntary or an arranged marriage where the woman's consent was not needed. Most times in these pseudohistorical account I have read we see that when a couple gets married it is the parents that arranged it, often where the couple have not even met. In the “Departed Spirit” the girl had an arranged marriage that her parents had agreed on. It was with a man that her father thought was fit for his daughter. In the text the father says “ One of these days I must marry Qianniang to him” this is a demonstration that during this period a woman did not have control over her future, it was something that the head of the family would determine for her.

In every area of the world, women have always had the stigma that it is their job to provide a duty for her husband. Although it has changed some through the years as cultures have adapted; there will always be some kind of discrimination following women in some way. Ancient China has seen this in there culture for years. Women were thought of as unimportant, but on the same note the Chinese couldn’t have prospered without them around. Early China was filled...