Ban Zhou: The Lessons For Women

The Lessons for Women reflect Confucian attitudes because these people were all about sticking to the role your supposed to play in society, especially as a woman. All women were to be submissive and modest. Ban Zhou would define an ideal woman as one who has what she calls the four womanly qualifications. First, what is named womanly virtue, where a woman need not be different from other women. Second, what is named womanly words, where a woman must not speak out of turn or in a conversational manner. Third, what is known as womanly bearing, where a woman is suspected to look appropriate. And last, but not least, womanly work where a woman need not be more skillful than others. Ban Zhou definition of the ideal husband is one who has complete