Does chastity belong to traditional culture?

Chastity is a China word, which means that people have no stain on their chastity. More refers to the moral norms that women have no virtue stain, no virginity and no remarriage. Language "poetry? Nan Zhou? Han Guang? Han has a wandering girl, can't you think about it? Han Zhengxuan wrote:? Xing, although Yu Xian's daughter walks on flowing water, she has no desire to violate the ceremony, and she is also done by Zhen Heng. ?

In different historical periods, the tolerance of society for women's remarriage is very different. The concept of chastity in Qin and Han Dynasties was different from that in Song and Ming Dynasties. Princess Pingyang remarried three times in Han Dynasty. After Zhuo Wenjun remarried, she eloped with Sima Xiangru, and so did Cai Wenji. It can be seen that the promotion of chastity in Qin and Han Dynasties did little harm to women.

At the beginning of the Han Dynasty, women not only had the right to seal marquis, knighthood and fief politically, but also acted as the head of the family economically, inheriting husband, viscount and property. In addition, the concept of chastity of women in Han dynasty was relatively weak, and women had the right to remarry.

With the rise of Neo-Confucianism, the moral requirements for women's chastity have gone to extremes. During the Ming and Qing dynasties, the ruling class praised and rewarded women's chastity in the form of law, and the concept of chastity was popularized and institutionalized, and the requirements for women's chastity developed to a crazy level. When the husband is dying or the war is coming, the wife and concubines die first to show their loyalty. Abstinence is a moral that women consciously abide by, but it has become the only unfortunate choice for women. Yes, they can't live or die, and it has become a killing tool that deprives women of their lives and freedom.

In ancient China, under the bondage of feudal ethics, the only wish of many widowed women was to get one when they were old? Chastity archway? Immortality is a bondage to women, and from the perspective of modern people, it is also a strangulation to human nature!

To a great extent, it is the oppression of human nature, but in order to maintain feudal ethics and social order, this invisible pressure has always been needed.