Why does the idea of "many sons, many blessings" still exist in rural China?

Because of the deep-rooted ancient thinking, and secondly, the rural areas need a lot of laborers, so they want more sons.

As the saying goes, "Many sons, many blessings." In traditional Chinese concepts, having children but not raising them is categorically incomprehensible. The former farming society, the cost of living is small, the people live mainly rely on farming, mainly manual labor, more sons are more men, more manual labor, food will be collected more.

And, in the past, it was male chauvinism, the daughter married over to the male side of the people, and more work. The first thing you need to do is to get a new son or daughter, and then you will have grandchildren, and the family will prosper, and you can't be sure which one of them will be successful and which one of them will be dutiful.

There is also the legacy of agricultural society. The cost of childcare in an agricultural society is almost zero, and having more sons is a big deal, but the returns are high. Grow up to be a few years old and you can go herding goats for hogweed or whatever, and sell them for a fortune if you don't. Grow up, best case scenario, son mixes it up, then the whole family moves up in class.

Medium, the son is also a strong labor force, the family can open more fields, more competition for water, the worst case scenario, the son into a gangster, that can also threaten the neighbors and clan not to hit their own ideas, and then again can be in the family and other families to fight group fights when to help hand. Who wouldn't do such a profitable thing? The first thing you need to do is to get your hands on some of the most popular products and services in the world, and then you can get your hands on some of the most popular ones.

So, because of men's innate factors and the formation of the concept of the latter, so that the concept of more sons, more blessings y rooted in people's hearts, and still exists today. Ancient people a concept that more sons will be prosperous, the future of their own will be more blessed A family can be united as intended to be happy and fulfilled . Nowadays, this is considered to be some of the blessings, blessing some of the newcomers, mostly used in the blessing of the parents of the newcomers.

So, in rural China, there is still the idea of "many children, many blessings".