North China Patriarchy Analysis

Roughly around the first century C.E, Northern China was ruled by the Han Dynasty. This Dynasty promoted a philosophy that was based off of Confucianism through their own government. Confucianism was built around social order and peace through patriarchy. Majority of the time men were the only gender to have a say in government. North Chinese women were always left out of their beliefs in community. Their role was to honor her husband and take care of the house chores and to reproduce. North China was a society that followed a patriarchy way of life. The government relied on the relationship of husband and wife to make themselves look like a successful society. Patriarchy was a way that the community functioned. You had the higher government officials at the top and the women and children at the bottom. The men were often right above women as they were the ones controlling them in the …show more content…
Women aren’t getting treated the same as men, but women matter more in the household than men do. Evidence of that was put in the third paragraph of this paper as well as in her document. Without a wife, I believe that men wouldn’t know what to do because around this time of the first century C.E. The way of life was solely surrounded by that men did his contribution to the success outside of the household where as women served inside the household. I think this piece is a brilliant way to address the North Chinese women at the time because Ban Chao was of higher class and was born into the Han Dynasty. But these women had no say, they didn’t know how to speak up, they didn’t know what was right. This was finally giving women an education on what they should expect and how to improve their role in the household. I strongly believe that if Ban Chao didn’t write this article then the way of life today in North China would be the same as it was in first century