Why do many rural people favor sons over daughters? How did this idea come about?

The reason why rural people emphasize men over women, a thought that has been passed down from ancient times, is mainly due to the following two reasons. I will briefly analyze the reasons for this.

1. In ancient times, it was an agrarian society, and people living in the countryside valued their land, and men were strong enough to help their families.

The physical strength of a girl and the physical strength of a boy are still no match for each other, and in the farming society, everyone listened to the sky and ate the land, and if there is a boy in the family, then when the boy grows up, he can help his parents to plant the land.

To plant the land, you need to sow seeds, you need to use the appropriate tools to turn the land, and when the crops are ripe, you also need to harvest these crops, remove the skin on the top of the crops, and then only leave the seeds of the crops, and of course, you also need to load these crops into the truck, and then pull back to their homes to turn the sun, truck after truck.

It was because the total process of plowing the land was so tedious and exhausting that families wished they could have a boy to help them when they grew up.

2. The reason why rural people emphasize the importance of boys is that, in everyone's mind, it is the boy who can carry on the family line.

With the development of traditional customs, after giving birth to daughters in many rural areas, the daughters are eventually married off to other places, while only the sons are able to stay with their parents.

Most people's conception is that a married daughter is like splashed water, and a daughter who marries elsewhere no longer belongs to her own family, but rather to her in-laws daughter-in-law. But a boy can marry another girl, and the boy still belongs to his own family.

With this notion in mind, it was felt that after the birth of a boy, the boy stayed at home to carry on the family line for himself, but his own daughter was not able to do so, but married into someone else's family to carry on the family line for others. The child born to his son is his grandson, and the child born to his daughter is his grandson.