The classical china renaissance is a different role in women than europe renaissance. The golden age of song dynasty china was less than the golden for many of its women, its another turning point in the history of chinese patriarchy. The paintings and statues shown women riding horses, while the queen mother of the west a daosit deity was worshipped by females daoist priest. There was a rapid growth in women and restore some of the earlier han dynasty notions of female submissions and passivity. Confucian writers highlighted the subordination of women to men and the need to keep men and women separated in everyday life. There is a song dynasty examples of the boys and girls.
"The boy leads the girl, the girl follows the boy, the duty of husbands to be resoulted and wives to be docile beings with this" For men it came to be defined less in terms of horseback riding, athleticism and etc. Women qualities emphasized women's weakness, delicacy. Women were frequently viewed as a distraction to men's pursuit of contemplative and introspective life. The remarriage of widows was condemned for "to walk through two courtyards is a source of shame for a women."Many women became a rite of passage and source of some pride in their tiny feet and beautiful slippers that encased them even the occasion for poetry for some women. In other ways the song dynasty witnessed more positive trends in the lives of women. The chinese renaissance is not true because the renaissance is rebirth of classical greek humanism. People in the renaissance become humanist and that was the point of it.
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