Traditional Culture Encyclopedia - Traditional stories - Why do they drown baby girls? Such a bad habit has been practiced in China for thousands of years.

Why do they drown baby girls? Such a bad habit has been practiced in China for thousands of years.

Anciently, the situation of "son preference" was very common, in China's ancient divination that the birth of a boy for the Jia, the birth of a daughter for the Jia, and then appeared the son of the inheritance of the fire, so many families in order to "not after", regardless of how many girls were born before, must also be born a son.

The Qing Dynasty was greatly influenced by the Cheng-Zhu school of thought, which was also distorted to make it more restrictive for women. In the late Qing Dynasty, social unrest, heavy labor, the birth of a baby girl is even more miserable, many will be thrown into the "abandoned baby tower", to be destroyed.

And the daughter is going to be married when she grows up, from the family out of the people, married out of the mother's family will not have much contact with the family, the family pile up things and who will do? And who would be there to see the old man off? This has led to the widespread belief that having a daughter is not a good idea.

Even if some parents love their daughters, but considering the situation at home, they have no choice but to send the baby girl to the "abandoned baby tower", hoping that there will be a good person to pick up their daughters back.

But this "tower" is not the official construction, but the people of the civil **** with the construction, after all, the abandoned child is also their own flesh and blood, inevitably some intolerance, but also can not be abandoned in the wilderness, so the "Tower of abandoned babies" appeared! The first thing you need to do is to get the best out of your car and get the best out of your car.