Why was there a serious patriarchal mindset in ancient times? Why didn't mothers, who were also women at that time, resist it?

The idea of son preference in ancient society can be explained from the following aspects:

One, the inevitable product of the ancient clan society, the need for clan succession

The clan in order to develop and strengthen the power of the desire to reproduce male offspring to ensure that the realization of this desire, if all the girls, grow up to be married into other clan families, so that their own clan power will gradually decline. Other clan families, so their own clan power will gradually decline, and even "cut off the children and grandchildren", so, in ancient times, there is the idea of son preference. Even if it is not an ordinary family, or in the imperial family, the normal situation is that imperial power in the hands of the emperor and the father's family, if the mother's family and his wife's family is considered to be the exclusive power of the relatives within the relatives. That's why in ancient times there was a practice of "the son's mother died" in the royal family.

Second,The inevitable product of a self-sufficient agricultural society

Men are better suited to agricultural production methods than women, and the structure of the character for "man" is 田 plus 力, which means that the man is a laborer in the fields. As men became the main supporters of the family's economic life, the family structure became father-centered and the father had absolute power, so the idea of emphasizing men over women was formed in the society. As a result, the demand for labor in agrarian societies has created a long-standing preference for boys and a disdain for girls.

Third,Limitations of survival conditions

Ancient Chinese society was economically backward, and often in a war environment, natural disasters, famine, poor medical care, etc., so that infants and young children die at a high rate, in order to be prosperous offspring, and to give birth to more children in order to ensure that the people are prosperous. The character for "good" is composed of the characters for "woman" and "son", and having children is "good", so people pray that they will have both children. So, people prayed to have both children, and in this way, women became the tools of reproduction.

Four,Ideological and Cultural Influence

Ancient marital relations in the ideological aspects of the emphasis on the difference between men and women to highlight the inferiority of men and women, emphasizing the absoluteness of the power of the husband, the authority of the woman, requiring the woman "from the end of the line". The woman was required to "remain faithful to her husband". For example: seven out of the ancient Chinese system of repudiation, the main content is: "disobedience to parents to go, no children to go, prostitution to go, jealousy to go, have a bad disease to go, talk to go, theft to go." In the pre-Qin period, the "seven out" was a kind of ritual, but later it was included in the law, and became a legal means to protect the husband's right.

So the low status of women's life and social status in family life reflected a serious patriarchal ideology.

Since there was such a serious patriarchal ideology in ancient times,why didn't the mother, who was also a woman at that time, resist it?

Since there was such a serious patriarchal ideology in ancient times, the mother of the same woman was incapable of boycotting it, because it was already a deep-rooted social concept, which could not be changed by a single woman, and if any of the mothers of the families really tried to boycott it, they would certainly be opposing the social system of the time and the laws of the time, and so it was impossible to boycott it.