a rich family, they would marry their daughters to the creditors' families.
             Love is nothing but a word that is usually meaningless; women trade their life for men's money. Because in Chinese society women cannot do away with the thinking that man is superior to woman; they look down upon their own wives, especially those who have lower education and those who come from rural areas. When they look for lovers, what concerns the man most is whether the woman is pretty or not; what concerns the woman most is whether the prospective husband is wealthy and has a high position, usually disregarding all the other elements for a good relationship.
             In feudal China, men had the ability to divorce their wives for reasons ranging from infidelity, laziness, loss of manners, or just being useless. Yet the wife never had the right to divorce the husband. The lack of freedom in nearly all aspects of their lives rendered them at the whim of their husbands. If the husband divorced the wife, she is put to shame and is looked down upon in there society. If the wife committed adultery she was condemned. Any ill actions towards the husband was forbidden and scorned. Yet, in feudal China, the most common practice was the betrothal marriage. If a man fell in love with a girl, or his parents wanted him to marry her, they would send a matchmaker to the girl's home. Because the middle and lower class was the majority, many marriages were not necessarily economic based. Yet this was how the culture was, it was accepted among the masses. Women accepted this kind of treatment because it was part of the culture, from the day of th!
             eir birth, they dealt with the notion that they were the lesser in society and that this was how it is done.
             In Confucian China, women and men were different in not body, but in yin and yang. Yin being of cold, dark, female, waters, and earth. Yang is everything light, bright, heat, male, fire and heaven. A new ide...