Confucianism changed the lives of people in classical china; the Confucian laws were well and truly unfair to women. “The Philosopher Confucius came from a noble family. As he grew older he developed strong beliefs about society.” (Jacaranda, History Alive.) Confucius wanted to achieve peace in the community and to do that he thought everyone needed to follow rules and then it would be a peaceful society because nothing would go wrong. He started coming up with rules for people to follow. He taught that family was the ‘basic building blocks’ of a society and as a ruler he needed to act like he was the father and everyone else was the family. Some of the rules that had a big impact on women included:
A woman’s greatest duty was to produce a
A woman’s greatest duty was to produce a