readx;? The development of agriculture was accompanied by the emergence of animal husbandry, pottery, weaving, etc., which were mainly carried out by women, while men were still largely retained in fishing and hunting production, and did not participate much in agricultural and animal husbandry activities. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 Agriculture, animal husbandry, combined with ancient gathering practices, have made women the main seekers and processors of the means of subsistence. At the same time, women are also responsible for the management of shelters, the protection of fires, the raising of children, and the work of pottery, weaving and sewing, which are stable and important compared to men's fishing and hunting activities, and thus establish the leading role of women in the overall socio-economic activities. This is the basis of respect for women and matrilineal clan society. Later, women were reduced to slavery precisely because of the loss of this important economic base.

The basic unit of matrilineal culture and social functioning is not the individual or the small family of the husband and wife, but the house. Therefore, in the value system of matriarchal society, the prestige of the family house is valued over the reputation of the individual, and the harmony of the family house is valued over personal achievement. Therefore, in a matrilineal society, the public perception is weak, and the problem is mainly solved by family consultation.

The most important characteristic that distinguishes human beings from other animals is their social and communicative nature, as well as the adequate nurturing and education of young children and children. It is this that has led to humans becoming more and more intelligent and overcoming other animals that fight alone and prey on the jungle in the struggle for survival.

Since mothers have always had the great responsibility of raising and educating their children, mothers, aunts, and grandmothers in primitive tribes share the task of raising babies. Women take on an important part of interpersonal communication, language, the core components of primitive religious beliefs, and daily labor.

Therefore, in the minds of all people during the matrilineal clan society, a sense of maternal love will naturally form from an early age. Believing that the mother is the closest and loveliest person, and that future generations respect her, trust her, and obey her discipline and arrangement. This state of affairs will inevitably gradually form into a general social consciousness that is rooted in the hearts of everyone at that time, and will naturally develop into a social habit that is recognized and consciously observed by everyone. In this way, the high prestige of women in the society of the time will gradually be gradually formed.

Although endogamy was prohibited during the Pangu period, due to the extra-clan group marriage system between the matrilineal clan and other clans, it was difficult to determine who the father of the child was, so it was also difficult to avoid marriage between close relatives and deformed children. But due to the great development of the Suiren clan, the surname Feng is everywhere in the world, so it is still impossible to tell who the child's father is.

In addition, after entering the semi-agrarian society, the ancestors of clothing, food, housing, and transportation have a basic guarantee, the social wealth began to have savings, interpersonal exchanges, trading relations gradually grow and prosper, communication occasions, trading markets, trading means, trading order urgently need to be established and perfected, in order to facilitate contact, communication, trading personnel must also have a fixed title symbol, there is a call and response, in order to achieve the equilibrium of the two sides after the transaction. In order to create a trading order, each has its own place.

For these two reasons, Nuwa asked her clan to have their own surnames (the germ of the patrilineal line). "Surname" is the sign of the family lineage, and "clan" is a branch of the surname. The basic function of the surname is to distinguish the bloodline, distinguish the marriage, and at the same time, overcome the genetic consequences of "not having a child" caused by the result of marriage with the same surname (close relatives). Nuwa demanded that all people should have a surname, and later people either took the surname of the animal they raised, or the surname of the plant, the dwelling, or the official position, in order to prevent promiscuous marriages and consanguineous marriages (endogamy is prohibited), so that the Chinese surname originated and continues to this day. Since then, people are no longer bothered by the question of "who is the father of the child", which greatly avoids the probability of endogamy, and completely ends the primitive group marriage state in which children only know their mothers but do not know their fathers for a long time.

Chen Di is an important birthplace of Chinese surnames. Many Chinese surnames originated from ancient Chen Huaiyang, and then spread to the whole country and even around the world. In ancient times, some surnames were derived from totems and from female characters. For example, Jian Di swallowed the eggs of the Xuanniao and gave birth to the deed (ancestor of the Shang Dynasty), and today there are still people who call the chicken eggs "chickens", and the merchants take the son as their surname. Jiang Yan was born from the traces of giants and the ancestors of the Zhou Dynasty were abandoned, and the Zhou people took Ji (trace) as their surname. The ancestor of the Qin people, the female cultivator, swallowed the eggs of the Xuanniao and gave birth to a great cause, which was the Ying family. This is a testimony of the union of their matriarchy and some kind of totem to give birth to human beings, and it is a reflection of their fatherlessness and husbandlessness. Among the ancient surnames, such as Jiang, Yao, Fei, Yao, An, Yan, Lou, Chang, Concubine and other ancient eight surnames, most of them are from the female character, and the surname itself is composed of female and sheng, which is a reflection of the surname from the female and the lineage calculated according to the matrilineal bloodline. It is different from the concept of surnames in the pre-Qin era and later. At that time, the surname can be branched and can be set again. This is a surname initiated by Nuwa during the matrilineal clan society.

Nuwa changed the customs of marriage, advocated the marriage customs and etiquette of men and women, and implemented the dual system of men and women. She prayed to God, and Yin decreed that she would act as a matchmaker for marriage matchmaking, establish a matchmaker system, and formulate the etiquette of marriage and employment. When a man proposes to a woman, he must present the woman with exquisite and neat animal skins and fresh and fatty meat as a certificate of employment, so as to show the norms and solemnity of the "couple" marriage system.

In the Nuwa era, people were able to identify their biological fathers in addition to their biological mothers, as they had done in the past. At the same time, in the fight against nature, the role of man is becoming more and more significant, and there is already the domestication of animals and the cultivation of plants. All this led to the gradual formation of the concept of the opposition between man and animals, the idea that man is superior to animals, and the infinite affection for one's immediate family, which led to ancestor worship, and the hope that the souls of one's ancestors would also be able to protect the members of their clan as they did when they were alive.

The duality system led to the emergence of ancestor worship, and at this time it entered the third stage of development of primitive religion, and primitive religion matured. During the Youwa period and after, Wicca became the main primitive religion and belonged to the primitive polytheistic religion.

At the same time as ancestor worship was produced, full-time priests also appeared. These priests were considered to be intermediaries between gods and humans, able to "connect with the gods" and "remove ghosts", and became the upper echelons of society. In the beginning, most of them were women, they were not elected or hereditary, and most of them were people who were cured from abnormal diseases. It is believed that the reason why such a person survives must be that he has been helped by interacting with the gods, and that others will also have good fortune if they pray to the gods through him. Such priests were not religious professionals and did not have a certain systematic belief and religious doctrine. They are sick and plagued, and they engage in all kinds of witchcraft activities, which they consider to be their duty. For a considerable period of time, this type of priesthood had a distinctly consanguinity character, i.e., there was a priest within each clan, and its religious activities were also confined to the clan.

With the advent of priesthood, polytheistic worship was further developed, and the personification of gods led to the humanization of gods, and the worship rituals became more and more complex.