The Status of Women

➢ home. Women had higher status

in Tang and early Song times
than they did later.
➢ Women had had great authority ,
Managing servants and Family
finances.
➢ Families valued boys more than
girls when a young woman
married, She became a part of
her husband’s family.
➢ In late Song times custom of
foot binding emerged.
➢ Foot binding reinforced the
Confucian tradition that women
should remain inside the home.
 The Tang and Song Develop a Rich Culture

The Song period saw the triumph of Chinese landscape painting steeped in tradition, painters sought
to capture the spiritualessence of the natural world.
 A CHINESE HOUSE

➢ Ideally , all type of Chinese homes were

built facing south so that they received
warmth from the sun in the winter.