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The Song dynasty Wushi Zhongkuilu (Chinese: 吳氏中饋錄; pinyin: Wushi Zhoungkuilu), the earliest known culinary work written by a Chinese woman, reveals the wide variety of dishes essential for daily consumption and the significant amount of curing, pickling, and preservation done by women in households at the time. [99]
The Biographies of Exemplary Women (Chinese: 列女傳) is a book compiled by the Han dynasty scholar Liu Xiang c. 18 BCE.It includes 125 biographical accounts of exemplary women in ancient China, taken from early Chinese histories including Chunqiu, Zuozhuan, and the Records of the Grand Historian.
The Three Obediences and Four Virtues (Chinese: 三 從 四 德; pinyin: Sāncóng Sìdé; Vietnamese: Tam tòng, tứ đức) is a set of moral principles and social code of behavior for maiden and married women in East Asian Confucianism, especially in ancient and imperial China. Women were to obey their fathers, husbands, and sons, and to be ...
Women in ancient Chinese warfare (1 C, 21 P) Pages in category "Ancient Chinese women" The following 7 pages are in this category, out of 7 total.
Archaeologists opened an ancient Chinese tomb and found someone they never expected to see inside: a blonde, bearded man. ... including everything from women pushing stones to grind flour to men ...
Chinese women's sport by year (36 C) A. Ancient Chinese women (21 C, 7 P) C. Chinese empresses (24 C, 10 P) Chinese princesses (5 C, 21 P) Chinese women by century ...
In 1982, Chinese working women represented 43 percent of the total population, a larger proportion than either working American women (35.3 percent) or working Japanese women (36 percent). [139] As a result of the increased participation in the labor force, women's contribution to family income increased from 20 percent in the 1950s to 40 ...
One of the earliest references to qualities later associated with the canonical Four Great Beauties appears in the Zhuangzi.In one chapter, the women Mao Qiang and Lady Li are described as "great beauties" who "when fish see them they dart into the depths, when birds see them they soar into the skies, when deer see them they bolt away without looking back".