What is the main content of the section "archway" in Yu Qiuyu's "Cultural Journey" and what does the author want to express?

In "The Archway", the article begins with a young stonemason telling Pan Mugong that the tombs where he built chastity archways for women are all empty, which proves that in that era, women would be punished if they married and remarried. Criticism from others affects the family image.

First of all, there are many chastity memorial arches in my hometown. When a woman's husband dies, she will build a chastity memorial arch if she doesn't get married. Some even committed suicide after hearing that the man was dead without even meeting him. And my beautiful female teachers are also in closed villages, never married, and their lives are suppressed. In order to preserve the image of the family and protect the life and happiness of their daughters, wealthy families build chastity memorials for their daughters and secretly send them away at night. Most of them feel helpless, sad and lonely.

"The Archway" contains the author's criticism of China's traditional "chastity" culture and the repressive ethics of human nature. With the help of implicit symbols, clever hints and appropriate metaphors, the protagonist's miserable and monotonous life and lonely and miserable state of mind are expressed in a twists and turns. From one side, it reveals the evil of feudal ethics that kills youth and destroys beauty, and has a negative impact on the story. It deeply analyzes and criticizes the feudal dross that suppresses women, and issues a deafening call for the liberation of human nature.

Extended information:

"The Archway" is an essay written by the modern writer Yu Qiuyu, which is included in the first chapter of the new edition of "Cultural Journey" published in April 2014.

This memory essay "The Archway" describes the archway in the countryside and the nunnery in the village through the eyes and voice of a child, and focuses on the fate of several female teachers from other places. . The flower garden in the primary school (nunnery) and the embroidery hidden on the beams are used as a metaphor for female youth and the beauty and splendor of female life, and the memory ends with the suicide of a female teacher.

Some of the men who walked out of the mountains came back, but left again a few days later; some never came back, or died - the world outside is more exciting than the one in the mountains. And women embroider day by day, waiting day by day, from cardamom years to gray hair. "Starving to death is a small matter, but losing one's integrity is a big deal." Youth, blood, life, and years have been exchanged for one tall chastity archway after another. Mr. Yu described: "...the archway is higher than the sky, dark and gloomy, as if it is going to be pressed down."

In the article, "cannot understand", "confused", "very muddy", " Phrases such as "Confused thoughts" quietly expose and criticize the cruelty of China's feudal ethics. "Women's Way" is an extremely important part of traditional Chinese morality, and it is also the page most soaked in blood and tears in traditional Chinese culture.