When I saw the title “Snow Flower and the Secret Fan”, I know that this book will definitely have interesting information about Chinese cultures for movie adaptation. The book has two fascinating point that could be used in today’s life. Even though the book is categorized in fiction, but it including real and factual historic details about Chinese cultures. For example, Chinese ladies had the weird beliefs that having small feet made them look more attractive or at least marrying a rich guy, so that she could get money from her husband to support her family and herself. This process called “Foot Binding” or “Lotus Feet” is extremely painful because to prevent feet from growing and stay small, a girl needs to distressingly tight her feet to
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The explanation is that every woman had to follow whatever the society forces her to do, think and act because of the norms and social beliefs. For instance, “the two Confucian ideals ruled for women, first, the Three Obediences: “When a girl, obey your father; when a wife, obey your husband; when a widow, obey your son,” Second, the Four Virtues, which delineate women’s behavior, speech, carriage and occupation: “Be chaste and yielding, calm and upright in attitude; be quiet and agreeable in words; be restrained and exquisite in movement; be perfect in handiwork and embroidery” (See 24). This quotation shows the audience how painful these women needed to go through is the great historic facts that could be taught to the later generation for many years; moreover, in the 19th century, the role of the women in most countries were very similar, so every woman can related to it even they were in different continents. Furthermore, to put the special bonding between women and partiality in thoughts are quite a rare condition, but it could happen to anyone of us, not only to the women. All of these points make Snow Flower and the secret fan, the great story to continuously recount for
The explanation is that every woman had to follow whatever the society forces her to do, think and act because of the norms and social beliefs. For instance, “the two Confucian ideals ruled for women, first, the Three Obediences: “When a girl, obey your father; when a wife, obey your husband; when a widow, obey your son,” Second, the Four Virtues, which delineate women’s behavior, speech, carriage and occupation: “Be chaste and yielding, calm and upright in attitude; be quiet and agreeable in words; be restrained and exquisite in movement; be perfect in handiwork and embroidery” (See 24). This quotation shows the audience how painful these women needed to go through is the great historic facts that could be taught to the later generation for many years; moreover, in the 19th century, the role of the women in most countries were very similar, so every woman can related to it even they were in different continents. Furthermore, to put the special bonding between women and partiality in thoughts are quite a rare condition, but it could happen to anyone of us, not only to the women. All of these points make Snow Flower and the secret fan, the great story to continuously recount for