 And give him jade to play with. How lordly his cry is! May he grow up to wear crimson And be the lord of the clan and the tribe. When a daughter is born, Let her sleep on the ground, Wrap her in common wrappings, And give her broken tiles for playthings....  Chinese Women Through Chinese Eyes - Pàgina 2per Yu-ning Li - 1992 - 251 pàginesPrevisualització limitada - Sobre aquest llibre
 | Elisabeth Croll - 2000 - 228 pàgines
...her in common wrappings, And give her broken tiles for playthings. May she have no faults, no merit of her own May she well attend to food and wine And bring no discredit to her parents.14 There is much ethnographic evidence in the late twentieth century that such attitudes have... | |
 | Donald B. Pope-Davis, Hardin L. K. Coleman - 2001 - 520 pàgines
...Wrap her in common wrappings, And give her broken tiles for playthings. May she have no faults, no merits of her own May she well attend to food and wine, And bring no discredit to her parents. This favoritism of sons over daughters has been a manifestation of filial piely where expectations exist... | |
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