Is Louie a Chinese Name?

["steve fong" <stevefong22@hotmail.com>]

And as far as a Hakka "connection" with royalty? The foot-binding
tradition of women is the ultimate connection to royalty, nobility, &
the merchant classes which was a tradition passed down from mothers to
daughters as a passport to upward mobility. My own grandmother's mother
had her feet bound but made the decision not to pass down the feet
binding tradition to my grandmother which would have been a liability
especially during the events leading to the Fall of the Qing Dynasty and
the uncertainty of China after Manchukuo was established by the
Japanese. My understanding about why Hakka women didn't bind their feet
was more so economic than that of the Mulan syndrome. Yaks & water
buffalos used for tilling the fields were an expensive commodity which
the average peasant class could not afford. A Hakka woman who can work
the field was a marketable commodity than one that couldn't walk. Women
were used in placed of yaks and incidently were treated like yaks.
That's the product of our Confucian legacy in all (not just Hakka)
traditional Chinese cultures that did not bind their feet.



Sincerely,
Charles Louie
San Francisco
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Charles,

Get yourself a Chinese surname before discussing anything
Chinese. Hearing some one named Louie talking about Chinese
culture really doesn't sound convincing.

About foot binding. I read in another article that Zhu Xi
actually codified it in his writings. Is he really
a Hakka? Since he is from Fujian and I feel a strong
tendency of Yue people to support foot binding, I guess
Zhu Xi is of Min-Yue, not Hakka. He is just a copycat of
Confucian thought.

Yue descendents tend to have a memory span less than
600 years since this is the time land-of-Hundred-Yue
become enlightened due to northern infusion.

Talking to Yue people about things and culture 1000-2000 years
old is like playing music to cows--because some of them
still don't have the genes yet.

Steve




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