What are the eighteen skills a woman must learn in ancient times?

Ancient women must learn 18 kinds of skills, including qin, chess, calligraphy and painting, three from the four virtues, women's red , husband and mothering and so on.

In fact, there are a lot of skills that ancient women need to master, but the ancient feudalism preaches that a woman's lack of talent is virtue. This idea is no longer applicable in modern times, and with the development of society, many traditional skills are no longer necessary to learn. However, when time was put in ancient times, the main learning of the rich family's thousand gold miss was a little more free, while the green house women focused more on the learning of zither, chess, calligraphy and painting.

"This year, mulberry leaves are as cheap as dirt, Wu silkworms ji ji more than Lu. The bottom of the leaf when the sound of healthy food, tree head soughing the first rain. Hard work out of the fire abruptly three sleep, Huai to collect ten million strands. County officials can not bear for cocoon silk, women red do not thing codification group. The foolish scholar please leave the world clothes, so that the living beings have a ring block. At the end of the year, when the sky is cold, Tianshu Weng, with his gray hair blowing in the frosty wind, will be able to work on both sides." -quoted from Yu Companions' "Spring Silkworm Row".

Women's red is the most basic skill of ancient women. In ancient times, women's hong mainly referred to spinning, weaving, embroidery and sewing. There are some folk who have very high skills in women's red, but also can enter the palace, for the royal family to teach their skills, and even handle a special women's red training center. Like the Three Kingdoms period of Mrs. Zhao can be woven on the fingertips of the brocade of the dragon and phoenix, the Tang Dynasty Lu Meiniang can be embroidered on a foot of silk seven volumes of the "Dharma Sutra", show a scaled-down version of the word is still not the slightest difference.

Ancient women from ordinary families could study only books such as "Inner Training," "Female Discipline," and "Female Training," among others. Whereas a lady from a rich family could often learn more. For example, The Three Character Classic, The Hundred Surnames, and The Book of Poetry.

Women's red (gōng), also known as "women's work", "women's work", or "women's affairs", belongs to the ring of Chinese folk art, mostly refers to the needlework done by women. It is a part of Chinese folk art, mostly referring to needlework done by women. All traditional skills produced by women by hand, such as spinning, weaving, sewing, embroidery, quilting, patchwork embroidery, flower cutting and dyeing, etc., are called "women's red".

This skill has been passed down from mother to daughter, from mother-in-law to daughter-in-law, and is therefore also known as "mother's art". The most famous of these is embroidery.

Embroidery, commonly known as "embroidery", is already processed on the fabric, the needle lead, according to the design requirements for piercing, through the operation of the needle will be embroidery threads into a variety of patterns and colors of a technology, is one of China's traditional folk handicrafts.

Embroidery penetrates the wisdom and good wishes of countless women, ten fingers of spring, full of passionate vitality and beautiful emotions. The needles and threads in their hands are just like the brush and ink in the hands of painters, which can embroider brilliant and exquisite pictures and express the personalities of the embroidery women, showing the cultural styles and artistic achievements of different times.

As we all know, China has been known as the "country of silk" is famous all over the world, the vast area of southern China has been producing silk since ancient times, which promotes the development of embroidery, brocade craft. Embroidery is known as "embroidery", is in the fabric has been processed, with a needle lead, according to the design requirements for piercing, through the needle will be organized into a variety of embroidery patterns and colors of a technology.

Embroidery is both an art and a culture, which is inextricably linked to the history of our Chinese nation. It is the crystallization of women's hard work and wisdom. It is of great practical significance for us to inherit the traditional culture and develop modern art creation. In the eyes of foreigners, embroidery is one of the representatives of Chinese culture and art.