"What the girl said, Miao!"

As soon as Yang Ying's words fell, a young scholar stood up and retorted, saying, "It's useless for a woman to study!" ”

"A daughter's family should be at home with her father, married from her husband, and her husband should sing with her wife."

"It is a natural thing for a man to earn money outside and a woman to take care of the elderly and children at home, so why should a girl argue?"

As soon as she heard this, Yang Ying said lightly: "I can't agree with these remarks." ”

"The same people, why are men inferior to women? Women can go out to earn money, and men can stay at home to take care of the elderly and children. ”

"I have heard that in ancient times, young men were responsible for hunting, fishing, and defending against wild beasts, and women were responsible for gathering, barbecuing, sewing clothes, and raising the old and the young, and so on, and the old and children were from it."

"At that time, women played a much greater role than women, so they were dominant, and the head was generally held by older women......"

Yang Ying is talking about things in ancient times.

That is, "matriarchal society"!

Women were much more productive than men, and prehistoric men could only search for dead animal carcasses, often empty-handed, and later learned to hunt, but often suffered heavy casualties.

Women collect 80% of their food, mainly plants and animals (including reptiles, birds, insects, etc.).

Basically, it was the time when women fed the whole tribe, and the greatest duty of men was to protect the tribe.

Matrilineal clans are maintained by matrilineal blood and are passed on by matrilineal relations, i.e. from grandmother to mother, mother to daughter, daughter to granddaughter, and so on, forever.

Having a daughter is not considered a broken root, but having only a son is a broken root, and the stepgirl must be the heir......

Among the ancient surnames, such as Jiang, Yao, Fei, Yao, An, Yan, Lou, Chang, Fei, etc., are mostly from the female character, and the surname itself is composed of female and sheng, which can be said to be the surname from the female, and the lineage is matrilineal.

Even to this day, there are still some remote areas in Dawu that belong to matrilineal clans.

They practice extragamy, and their children follow their mothers, so they are fatherless and husbandless.

"Miss Yangying, time has changed, and now it is not what it used to be!"

The gentleman retorted, "You have to admit that there are some aspects in which women are indeed inferior to men. ”

"For example, ploughing and fighting, there is no greater need for ploughing and warfare than strength, and women have less strength than men. As for learning talent, it varies from person to person, but I think women are still inferior to men in this area. ”

"Good!"

"Color!"

The scholars all applauded.

The final outcome of this debate is clear.

A woman's lack of talent is virtue.

In fact, the people of this era are civilized, and it is not the so-called "male superiority and inferiority of women", and the status of men and women is roughly the same.

In the family legislation of the Great Wu Dynasty, women can have an equal status with their husbands in certain aspects, such as a woman can kill her adulterous husband, and a husband can beat his wife and his wife beat her husband in the same way, and so on.

Reflected in the issue of women's remarriage, it is also very tolerant, and there is a provision that "if the husband dies and the wife marries herself, the one who takes it is not guilty".

However, even so, the scholars believed that girls should not be allowed to join the sequence of compulsory education in Dawu......

Once a woman has a book to read and has achieved exactly the same status as a man, how can the hen Si Chen's words not be messed up in the future?

They kick their noses in the face, like this?

The vigorous development of feminism is very likely to cause some unnecessary social contradictions, which is something that Qingji does not want to see.

In the end, the scholars and women voted, and the number of votes obtained by Yang Ying's side was only 136 votes, and the proposal was not passed.

Seeing this, Yang Ying couldn't help but be overshadowed.

She knew she couldn't achieve her goal, but she tried anyway.

This kind of sheep Ying makes Qingji quite appreciative.

"The second and third sons, I mean, a compromise, after obtaining the consent of their parents, girls can also enroll in school and join the free education sequence."

"Your Majesty Shengming!"

The crowd shouted.

Qingji's approach can be regarded as better than nothing.

It is not easy for the girls to get their parents to agree to read and write.

Traditional ethical perceptions are an important influencing factor.

Even in modern times, many people still think that raising girls is for someone else!

In ancient times, even if there were families who were open-minded and capable of cultivating their daughters to read, they taught more of the way of husbands and children......

"Yang Ying, I want to make you a living housekeeper, with an official rank of 600 stones, and I will be responsible for serving the holy driver in the future, recording my words and deeds, and sending you to the History Museum at the end of the season to repair the "Living Note". Would you like it? ”

As soon as she heard this, Yang Ying immediately knelt down flattered, kowtowed to Qingji, and said, "People's girl...... The courtiers bow and thank the Holy Grace! ”

"Good."

Qingji believes that some people should indeed record their words and deeds, and then compile them into a book, just like the Analects of Confucius.

It makes a lot of sense!

In fact, there are also many people around Qingji who have recorded his words and deeds and compiled them into some books, but they have not yet been sorted out.

It will probably wait until Qingji dies before it will be made public!

"Your Majesty, the courtiers have something to do!"

"Say."

Yang Ying, who had just been named a resident by Qingji, immediately had something to do, which made Qingji quite curious.

Did she come "prepared"?

"Your Majesty, after my Great Wu swept away all the countries and ruled the world, his descendants either took the country as their surname, or their surname as their surname, or their surname as their surname, and their surnames have been confused."

"In that case, why doesn't Your Majesty let the surname and the surname be combined into one, without distinguishing between each other?"

As soon as Yang Ying's words came out, it immediately caused an uproar among the scholars.

I have to admit that Yang Ying's proposal is too bold.

As we all know, surnames and surnames have different meanings, and they are also strictly distinguished.

In ancient times, with the multiplication of the population, the primitive tribes divided into a number of new tribes, and the new tribes gave a separate common code name in order to express their specificity, which is the "clan", and the clan is a branch of the surname.

It was on this basis that the later Taihao Fuxi clan had the initiative of "positive surname", which made the descendants of China gradually prosperous.

Men are called names, women are called surnames!

The rule of "etiquette does not marry the same surname" continued until the Zhou Dynasty.

The system of marriage and the system of surnames have been constantly enriched and established in the form of law......

Now, Yang Ying is trying to break this patriarchal system?

"No!"

Immediately, a scholar stood up against it, saying: "Your Majesty, don't marry because of your surname, and don't be noble or cheap because of your family." If the surnames are confused and the two become one, how can there be a distinction between nobles and commoners? What is the difference between marriage? ”

"Not marrying with the same surname, this is a rule of the ages, how can it be overturned?"

"Your Majesty, please be aware of it!"

Hearing this, before Qingji could speak, Yang Ying retorted: "What a person with the same surname is not married!" What the gentleman said is ridiculous! ”

"If there are people with the surname Ji, how many people are there in the world?"

"Your Majesty is surnamed Ji, Wu, didn't you also marry multiple women surnamed Ji?"

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