Why the Qing Dynasty? In fact, the requirements for women's three obedience and four virtues were gradually tightened with the deepening of feudalism, and the Qing Dynasty was known as the most thorough and peak period of feudalism. However, the suppression of people's thoughts in Qing Dynasty has reached a high level. If nothing else, Daxing Wenzi Prison and the revision of Sikuquanshu are both means to imprison people's thoughts. It can be said that the Qing Dynasty perfectly achieved the three elements of "the people are in poverty", "the centralization of imperial power" and "the stability of the system". But it is precisely because of this that the feudal rule of the Qing Dynasty persecuted and strangled the people in an unprecedented way. As a vulnerable group, women naturally become the most oppressed part.
Chastity, a seemingly simple word, is one of the imprisonments to women in ancient times. The feudal imprisonment in China is much worse than the religious imprisonment in Europe, and you should know that the Qing Dynasty completely inherited the concept of "keeping justice and destroying human desires" of Zhu Cheng Neo-Confucianism, and even extended it greatly. "Women's precepts" and "women's training" are limited to women in middle and high-rise families, while the memorial archway and chastity monument are locked up by ordinary people. Under the complete control of "husband power" and "man power", the whole female group in China was completely ruined and enslaved in the Qing Dynasty. ?
Therefore, in the Qing Dynasty, you can't see the women who were dressed openly and brightly in the prosperous Tang Dynasty, nor can you see the women who were full of heroic spirit in the Song Dynasty. You can only see women in the Qing Dynasty, with flat breasts, short stature, legs wrapped in pig's trotters, and a numb face squatting in a dark room. Even at that time, the demand for female chastity had reached the level of abnormal condition. Not to mention that being close to the skin is a woman's infidelity, even touching her hand and seeing a wisp of skin are all infidelity. Even when they step out of the house, they are considered to have lost their virginity. The most ridiculous thing is that they stood with men and lost their virginity. This has far exceeded the standard of three obedience and four virtues, but people at that time kept saying that it was three obedience and four virtues. Oppressing women is really cruel.