Chinese traditional values are people’s codes of conduct. It takes a long time to form. From the ancient China to contemporary China, people are always comply with it.Chinese traditional values have many aspects, such as: respect the old and cherish the young, respect the opinions of parents, family is No.1 in everyone’s mind, love of the mother land, modesty, thrift, hard work, be ready to help others, and so on. In our daily life, we can find out many examples to prove that people’s behave be affected by Chinese traditional values, and we can see how the Chinese traditional values influence the Chinese women. Firstly, modesty is the most aspect. There is an old saying in traditional Chinese: as described by the online site Baike “the modest receive benefit, while the conceited reap failure”.( The modest receive benefit, while the conceited reap failure) Thus, people, especially women, should never conceited to his (or her ) friends or strangers. Once the others find out a woman is conceited, they will think that this one is unfriendly, and they will never choose the one to make friend. If you are a girl, when others praise a your beauty, the right way is to say “ you are better than me” to the one who praise you . Then, the one who praise you will think you are modest and easy going, and he is willing to be your friend. If you say “ of course, thank you”, people will think you are not modest, you are proud. So, show your modesty is good for yourself. But, thrift is indispensable. In ancient China, the low productivity leads a low living standard, so, people are very poor , they must be thrift so that they can live. But, men are always go out to hunt, the housework be distribute to the women. The Chinese women is very smart, they use air seasoning to dried meat, so that meat could keep a long time. They distribute food reasonably, so that the whole family not suffer from hunger. Nowadays, Chinese people have a better life, even they have a lot of resources, they still keep being thrift. We all know that this good habit owe to the smart and great Chinese women. Thirdly, the thoughts of Confucius have a great influence on Chinese women. In this book Confucius, the author tell us: “Confucius advocate that monarch should use etiquettes to govern his country. If everyone was polite, the country will not need the policies to rule”(205); in this book The Analects of Confucius, the author tell us: “Confucius insists that love could influence others. He said that everyone born with virtuous, when someone being a bad man, the other people could use love to save him”(11); and he also insists that women should obey: as described by the online site Wikipedia “the three obediences and the four virtues. The three obediences: in ancient China a woman was required to obey her father before marriage, and her husband during married life and her sons in widowhood, and four virtues: fidelity, physical charm, propriety in speech and efficiency in needle work”.(Three Obediences and Four Virtues).I think the third one harm the interests of women. Because the women does not have any right to choose her life, they just a tool of their husband. It is unfair, if a man could not be a tool of woman, he should treat woman equally like himself. For example: the loyal and steadfast for love is an important value of Chinese traditional values, but many women get hurt from it. As described by the online site Baike “Meng Jiangnv, a pretty woman, born in Qin dynasty. Her husband, Fan Xiliang, dies for building the Great Wall. She is very sad when she knows her husband dies for the Great wall. Everyday she will go to the Great wall to cry for her husband. Even this thing has happened a long time, she still go to the same place and do the same thing. A man make a propose to her, but she answer him : “I am Fan Xiliang’s wife, and I am Fan Xiliang’s wife forever!” Finally, Meng Jiangnv died for her husband, and people build a Jiangnv temple to commemorate her loyal and steadfast for her husband”. ( Meng Jiangnv). Thus, we can see the Chinese traditional values have a great influence on China’s women. In ancient China, women have not spirit of resistance, they be treat like animals, but I wonder that why they have not spirit of resistance? If you keep your eyes on them, you will find out : the Chinese traditional values control them, and erode their minds. The loyal for love is good, but died for love is stupid. Chinese traditional values
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