Why were men superior to women in ancient China?

? In fact, there was no concept that men were superior to women at first, but women's status was relatively high. In ancient matriarchal clan society, women were the main labor force, and men often took care of some trivial matters at home. At that time, women could have many male partners, so the children born to women at that time were often not sure who the father was. At that time, women were the main labor force because gathering, fishing and hunting were the main tasks at that time, and handicrafts also occupied a very important position.

Women can play a greater role in labor, can make more elaborate handicrafts, and have lighter posture and more agile skills in collection. You can also make fishing tools.

Great development of agriculture and animal husbandry in the later period. During this period, food was mainly obtained through farming and hunting rather than gathering, so men with greater physical strength became the main force of the labor force and gradually formed a patriarchal society dominated by men. During this period, the status of men is gradually higher than that of women, and relatively speaking, men can marry multiple women.

In the following hundreds of years, the small-scale peasant economy with farming as the main mode gradually emerged and developed, and the dominant position of men was continued and consolidated. For example, Dong Zhongshu of the Western Han Dynasty put forward the "Three Cardinal Principles and Five Permanent Principles", demanding that women abide by the principle of "husband as wife", and we often hear that "from father at home, marry as husband", and these concepts gradually penetrated into everyone's thoughts in society.

"Men are superior to women" appeared in this process, and was gradually praised as the mainstream thought by rulers and some upper-class men.