Why do western women change their surnames after marrying their husbands, while China does not have this custom?

The custom of a woman changing her husband's surname after marriage is a very old one. It is very, very old, so old that the custom has been around since the advent of patriarchal societies. It is a cultural practice that is a cultural legacy of patriarchal societies.

The reason for this is because in ancient times, women were subservient to men, and in a family only the man was the heir to the family legacy, and women would eventually marry into other families, so women were more like guests of the family in ancient times, and relatives of foreigners. That is why western women will change their husband's surname when they get married to show family affiliation. Although we have always thought that westerners' concept of family is not as good as China's, it is actually perhaps weaker than China's, but it is still stronger. Human beings are social animals, however, the first social belonging of human beings is the family, so the family name is the same cultural characteristic of human beings ****.

This cultural phenomenon has actually occurred in China as well, only it was a change of surname, but a change of name. Must be surnamed Zhang married surnamed Liu, then outsiders call it Liu Zhang's name, and in the future on the tombstone will also be written as the tomb of so-and-so of the Liu family Zhang's name. So it's not that this is not the case in China, but it's a different form. This phenomenon still exists in Hong Kong and Taiwan, where a woman has to add her husband's surname before her name when she gets married, such as Chen Feng Fuzhen. It's still popular in the Chinese community in Southeast Asia.

Now the status of women is not what it used to be, not to mention half of the sky, this piece of heaven almost all of them, but this ancient custom is still preserved, in this kind of near-feminist society, this custom is the patriarchal society left us one of the few cultural imprints.