A Study Of Huizhou Women's Life In The Ming And Qing Dynasties

The Huizhou clan was powerful. It controled every people's daily life. Its influence of huizhou women's life was especially enormously. The female life norm seted by Huizhou clan reflected the social environment of huizhou women's lives. Also excellent quality of life was trained.The commodity economy of Huizhou was developed in Ming and Qing Dynasties. The Huizhou merchant becomed the biggest businessman gang. But also aggravating the differentiation of the social classes in Huizhou. Different classes of women's lives were obviously different. The upper women had generally accepted education,their cultural level was higher,and they had comparative amateur life. But they also needed to take on family responsibilities,for example,looking after their parents-in-law,doing their housework,teaching children,and so on. The middle-level women participated in productive labor universality.They not only engaged in needlework,the spinning and weaving,but also engaged farming and so on manual labor.Because in the case of most Huizhou men were in business,women had to assume the burden of family. They maded for huizhou social development of great contribution. The social status of Middle women was moving.Some of they by means of supporting husband reading or entrepreneurship,or educating children successfully,received the government awards,moved in the upper class. Huizhou in the Ming and Ming Dynasties, the lower class women lived in the bottom of society. This class's representive was slaves class. This group of women in the hierarchy of huizou is the most insecure. They couldn't change the fate of their own efforts. They can only have been slaves,and their children were the same. Sometimes they even abused by the owner. There were still exist the custom of Ban maidservant in Huizhou Ming and Qing Dynasties. In the influence of Ming and Qing Huizhou chastity women and Martyr women, the Huizhou slaves class ashamed to evil deeds.