What are the characteristics of human civilization entering a patriarchal society?

In ancient times, people lived by picking wild fruits, hunting, keeping small animals in captivity and planting simple crops. In this case, women's dexterity and diligence adapted to the working conditions at that time. Women's labor income is often higher than that of men, and their economic status is also higher than that of men. Therefore, their social status and family status are dominated by women, which is the root of matriarchal clan.

At the end of primitive society, with the development of productive forces, a large number of farming times appeared. Men are more suitable for labor and production than women, creating greater economic value, so their social status and family status surpass those of women, and the matriarchal society has gradually changed into a paternal society.

Modern society is still a society suitable for the development of men. Men generally create greater economic value than women, so they are still dominant in the patriarchal society. Only those backward and uncivilized nations are still primitive modes of production, and there is a matriarchal social phenomenon.

When science and technology are developed and more suitable for women's development, the patriarchal society will gradually transform into a matriarchal society.

However, the change of Dawenkou culture shows that the transformation from matriarchal society to paternal society took about 1000 years, while the matriarchal society in China lasted for 3000 to 7000 years under the mode of agricultural production. Therefore, it is difficult to convince people that the change of production mode or productivity is the main reason for the disappearance of matriarchal clan society.

Taihao Fuxi said in history: "Correct surnames, match and attach importance to couples of all people, recommend them by skin, and show that their surnames are difficult to spell with courtesy, and people's feelings are not blasphemous." In other words, China people perfected the surname system at that time and formulated the rules of marriage.

When people find that only the paternal line can better mark the blood relationship, children no longer inherit the mother's surname, but inherit the father's surname. This change makes men become the main body of marriage instead of women.

The marriage system is becoming more and more strict. In the Xia and Shang dynasties, it was stipulated that people with the same surname "married after five generations." In the Zhou dynasty, the rules were stricter, and people with the same surname "lived forever but could not get married." In order to facilitate people to abide by the marriage system, a kind of intimacy scope such as "five clothes" has been formulated, and foreigners with five clothes can talk about marriage. Of course, Fu and his people don't know the truth about biology. They just found this rule. As the saying goes, you know what it is, but you don't know why.

China culture's emphasis on consanguinity markers should be related to China's early entry into farming society. People in farming society are confined to the land, most afraid of leaving their homes, and the population rarely flows. If the blood is unclear, they are most vulnerable to intermarriage. On the other hand, nomads are highly mobile and do not live in compact communities. Even if the consanguinity is unclear, they will not be hurt too much by intermarriage.