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 Re: The Three Pillars of Chinese Society – The Tao Foundation – Part 3.
Author: Tin-Kay Goh 
Date:   05-01-12 21:51

What good is a surname unless it is related to a dignitary or to continue ancestral worship. If there is no male line, the female can still continue with the family blood line. Your father and brother should accept destiny and let your niece and her children carry the family name.

The most distressing situation is that of a woman who keeps bearing girls. The in-laws would berate her wrongly because it is actually the son's fault for giving her the X sperm and not the Y sperm. Many a Chinese men have unkindly cast aside the wife and taken a second wife to get a male line. I hope your father and brother understand X and Y sperms. Indians are just as bad as Chinese in this blaming.

As for Confucian philosophy, the ethics are superb. The only failing is sexual discrimination. Under the Confucian philosopher, Mencius, a woman has to obey the father, then the husband, then the Eldest son. Until modern times, the girls of respectable family are kept locked up except to follow their mother to the temple. Hence, the temple in many love stories is where the girl meets the boy.

An interesting movie from a book by Lisa See called "Snow Flower and the Secret Fan" bears out the hardship and sufferance of Chinese women.
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