Why is rural China a stable society with different sexes?

In rural society, people's mutual behavior is completed through understanding, and the physiological differences lead to the inability of men and women to understand each other, so the social activities of men and women are almost separated. For example, in the old countryside, men went to the fields together and women did needlework together. In modern social organizations, boys and girls study together, work together and do the same job.

In rural society, it is individual physiological differences that prevent people who live together from fully understanding each other. This difference is not due to the disparity of genetic characteristics, but it will not be too significant in a small community where several generations have married.

It is men and women who always divide people's physiological differences. It is precisely because no one has personally experienced the differences between the two sexes that our understanding of this difference is always indirect; The difference that can be said is more or less limited to the surface. In real life, everyone will feel the estrangement of the opposite sex, but different content is always a guess and can't be understood.

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Creation background

"Local China" originated from the content of "Rural Sociology" taught by the author at National Southwest Associated University and Yunnan University in the late 1940s. At that time, the author serialized 14 articles in stages at the request of the century review, and based on these contents and articles, he compiled Native China.

In Native China, the author summarizes and analyzes the main features of grass-roots society in China with simple and popular language, which fully shows the face of grass-roots society in China. The book mainly discusses the pattern of difference order, the difference between men and women, family, blood relationship and geography. The language of this book is fluent and easy to understand.

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