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What does "woman" mean in "women don't want men"

Women's scarves and ornaments on women's hair.

Dong, the ornament on a woman's hair. Scarves and ornaments in women's hair. Zhuge Liang sent someone to send a woman to Sima Yi, which means that Sima Yi likes women. Later, "woman" was used as a synonym for women. The ancients called men beards.

Feudal tradition discriminates against women, so when a woman is very successful, she is called a woman without a man, which means that a woman is no worse than a man. From the Biography of the Three Kingdoms and Wei Zhi, Pei Songzhi quoted Wei's Spring and Autumn Annals: "Liang repeatedly sent envoys to hand in books, and was angry to give women ornaments to announce the king."

Zhuge Liang sent messengers many times to send gauntlets and headscarves and jewelry worn by women to anger Sima Yi.

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There is a saying in Xu Shidong's Yu Yan Lou Ji in Qing Dynasty that "the ancients called men men". There is also a saying in A Dream of Red Mansions that "I am a handsome man and I am an honest man". Why do you call men, men, men? One explanation is that in ancient times, men regarded beards as beautiful and thick, but only men's beards were thick, so they regarded beards as synonymous with men.

However, it must be unique to men, with eyebrows for both men and women. Therefore, another statement seems to be more practical. It turns out that ancient women had the habit of shaving their eyebrows and then painting them. After all, the painted eyebrows are not "real". They seem to exist, but they are not. In this way, eyebrows can also be regarded as "unique" things for men. This is why men are called men.