Mother Cultural Studies In Modern China

The poetry A Traveller’s Song of Meng Jiao written in Tang Dynesty said:“Athread is in my fond mother’s hand moving. For her son to wear the clothes areleaving. With her whole heart she’s sewing and sewing. For fear I’ll be roving androving. Who says the little soul of grass waving. Could for the warmth repay the sunof spring.”The topic of conversation about mother is an eternal and sacred topic inhuman history. In the era of the matriarchal clan society， the position of femininitywas the top and femininity dominated in every aspect of the society life. In a family，the position of mother was also the top and generation was inherited by femininity.So， we can say that it was the booming time of the culture of mother. And manymyth of femininity also derived from that era. The beautiful myth Nu Wa CreatedMankind could be the best representative of them. So， Nu Wa was taken as thefemale ancestor of the Chinese people generation by generation and worshiped.Femininity suffered unfair treatment when the human society entered the era ofpatriarchy. In the Chinese feudle society of thousands of years， the Chinesefemininity were tied seriously by feudal ethical code. At that time， the Chinesefemininity had no right to receive education and be a bureaucrat， so the majority ofthem just were the characters to help their husbands and raise children. After theSino-British Opium War， China entered modern time and impacted by occidentalculture. So some advanced Chinese pursued the equality of genders and tried tochanged the phenomenon of valuing the male children only and ignoring the femalechildren. The voice from women for liberation kept warming up and the women’s libdeveloped vigorously. Under the whole circumstance of modern Chinese society， thetraditional culture of mother changed a lot and connected with the occidental one. TheChinese mothers were no more the characters to help their husbands and raisechildren and they get out of doors of houses， so they asked for the equal rights withmen. The character of mother had great changes in both family and society. Thefuddle-oppressed traditional culture of mother also changed a lot and connected with occidental one but kept its own virtue.The maternal worship came from ancient time and still existed in modernChinese society， especially reflected in religious culture. Kinds of religious culturechanged and developed， but the topic conversation of the maternal worship still hadsome influence in each social field， especially in folk culture. There were lots ofreasons about this， such as historical reasons， social reasons， and so on.There are three great kindness for children from mother， giving the birth，bringing up and educating. From ancient time to now， mother still has theresponsibilities of above-mentioned. The modern Chinese has more different andprogress， compared with traditional Chinese in giving a birth to a child，bring up achild and educating a child. So， they not only inherited and developed the essence ofthese aspects， but also absorbed and imported occidental advanced ones.In modern China， there were many famous mother. Some were inherited thevirtues of traditional mothers; some became the member of women’ s lib and becamethe new women with knowledge and culture. These were the inevitable result of thedevelopment of the era. As mothers in new era， they played important parts inmodern Chinese society and pushed the development of modern society and the causeof national liberation.All in all， modern Chinese culture of mother， inherited kinds of good virtues fromancient mothers， but express more characters of time under the whole circumstanceof modern Chinese. Modern Chinese culture of mother effected the development ofChinese society actively， so we should promote modern Chinese culture of mothervigorously!...