The definition of “beauty” is a combination of qualities, such as shape, color, or form that pleases the aesthetic senses, especially the sight (Oxford, 2017). There are wide differences between ancient Chinese culture and the Western culture. The differences depend on the current culture of the dynasty. There are two types of the standard of beauty, which include the inner beauty and the outer beauty (Brand, 2000). Outer beauty is practicing their talents such as dancing or singing skills; inner beauty is the virtuous nature of the women, and those women with high ambitious will involve in political intrigue (Sun, 2011). Other than that, the behavior, body appearances, skin tone, hairstyles, the costume, and jewelry that can represent the ideal beauty at that time (Pompeii, Yuen, & Fresard, 2016).
Thousand of years ago, gender stereotypes already occur in ancient and tighter and collective …show more content…
Most of them follow the social norms, values, attitudes that the culture did. The belief system of the ancients are same, the ancients don't want to create conflict, they have less query to the laws and rules because it creates a sense of belonging to them and get adopted by the society. The socialization agents including parents, the environment that exists help to ensure the socialization process develops. For instance, being a good woman is not allowed to hang out or having physical touch with males before married, this behavior can bring shame to a family and the consequence is the woman will put in a “pig cage” and drowned, and shouldn’t talk too much and spread the rumors. Virtue is the most important element of being a good woman. In other words, a good woman doesn’t need any special talents and the folk saying, a woman without talents is virtuous is still widely known today (Sun,
Thousand of years ago, gender stereotypes already occur in ancient and tighter and collective …show more content…
Most of them follow the social norms, values, attitudes that the culture did. The belief system of the ancients are same, the ancients don't want to create conflict, they have less query to the laws and rules because it creates a sense of belonging to them and get adopted by the society. The socialization agents including parents, the environment that exists help to ensure the socialization process develops. For instance, being a good woman is not allowed to hang out or having physical touch with males before married, this behavior can bring shame to a family and the consequence is the woman will put in a “pig cage” and drowned, and shouldn’t talk too much and spread the rumors. Virtue is the most important element of being a good woman. In other words, a good woman doesn’t need any special talents and the folk saying, a woman without talents is virtuous is still widely known today (Sun,