Traditional Culture Encyclopedia - Traditional festivals - Do women have to cook?

Do women have to cook?

Not only during the Spring Festival, but also when entertaining guests at ordinary times. Men and guests drink and eat at the table, but women can't eat at the table.

This is a part of China's traditional culture, which has its reasonable and natural connotation, not all of which are dross. This is a reasonable division of labor according to the social status and quality of men and women. Do your job, do your job.

These traditions originated from Confucianism founded by Confucius. On the surface, men are superior to women, men are born noble, and women are born humble, but in fact they have not done their best.

With the changes of the times, many women can do the same jobs as men, and all women and men enjoy the same social status. However, people are still consciously or unconsciously inheriting the traditional custom of "men are the masters outside and women are the masters inside".

Modern science has proved that the characteristics of men and women are very different, and they are natural and objective. It is unrealistic for women to engage in high-intensity work like men. So men and women should have different division of labor.

With the progress of society, people's consciousness has long lost the remnants of the so-called "men are superior to women." After cooking, women and men eat at the same table.