Analyzing the economic reasons for peasant families to have many children in traditional society

The Chinese farmers have a long history of the idea of having many children, because in their traditional culture they believe that only sons can carry on the family line, and daughters are married off and splashed out of the water.

In addition, in the rural areas, the labor intensity is very high, and a lot of physical work really needs to be done by men.

There is also the influence of family power in the countryside is also very large, the son of the family in the village is very powerful, although some sons are not filial, but on the surface of the scenery is beautiful, many people.

The new era of farmers has long changed the concept of men and women are the same, but the son of the family is a heavy burden, many poor places and even appeared in the village of the bachelor, the good son is not in the more, a good son of the top ten.