Beiyang reactionaries

Lost face.

The Zhao family really lost face this time, how will they walk around Xiangtan with their heads up in the future.Everyone in the Zhao family left the court hall angrily.

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"Mr. Tang."

"Mr. Tang, Mr. Tang."

Big news.

The woman sued her husband's family and won the lawsuit, and the family was ordered to return those assets.Such a sensational news made the reporters outside the court very excited.Of course, there are also many people who are very sad and indignant.

Not only the Zhao family clan was angry, but many other people were also very angry.

The world is going downhill, and people's hearts are immortal.

How could such a thing happen.

woman?

How can a woman do such a thing.

Since ancient times, the highest praise for women is to abide by the "three obediences and four virtues". When a woman wants to show her face, she can still go to court.Women can't even enter the ancestral hall, and how can they go in and out of the court if there is no big thing.

Still suing the husband's family?

So problematic.

It's just outrageous.

"Mr. Tang, since ancient times, sons sue their fathers and women sue their husbands. They have been accused by others. Because this is against ethics. You are agitating these people here, which is challenging the ethics and moral order of our country. You don't Do you think this is inappropriate? You are breaking your ancestors' etiquette."

ethics.

China is a patriarchal society.

Look at those imperial edicts, they all start with "this dynasty governs the country with filial piety".Since Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty used Dong Zhongshu to "revere Confucianism alone and dismiss all schools of thought", China has actually become a patriarchal society dominated by Confucian ethics.All rulers since 2000 agree with this point.

To challenge the current ethics and morality is to challenge the social order and ethical order in China for thousands of years.So some reporters asked very sharp questions.

Tang Qunying is a person in Hunan who violated ethics and lawlessness, and was accused by the whole society.

There were not one or two newspapers in Hunan that scolded Tang Qunying.

It's just that Tang Qunying didn't care at all.

"Now is the Republic of China, a republic. The characteristic of a republic is that everything is based on the law. The national law is greater than the patriarchal law. No one can be above the law. The national law is the foundation of all order. All ethics and morality must also be Obey the laws of the country."

Tang Qunying was in high spirits.

This is something she has pursued for many years.From participating in the revolution in the late Qing Dynasty to the founding of the Republic of China, Tang Qunying has been pursuing "equality between men and women", and has been pursuing women to have the same rights as men.

There are many things involved.

Freedom of love and freedom of marriage, of course, also includes that women have the same right to vote and be elected as men, which is commonly known as suffrage.

Beyond these, is property rights.

In fact, Chinese society has protected women's property rights since ancient times.Including the laws of the Ming and Qing Dynasties, there are clear regulations on women's property rights.

Women also have the right to inherit property.

It's a pity that these regulations are down, and they are nothing in front of the strict patriarchal clan.

Some enlightened clans still have some protection for women's property rights and will not suppress them too much.But for many local clans, there are many restrictions on women's inheritance of property.

Not enough protection.

Because in the eyes of the clan, men and women are different.Men are members of the clan, but women no longer belong to the clan because they want to marry.Including married daughters-in-law, once the man of the family dies, the clan will start guarding against these married daughter-in-laws.I am worried that once I remarry, these assets will not be guaranteed.

So very harsh on women.

Although there are laws and regulations, at the local level, no one cares about these.

why?

The affairs of the clan are left to the clan to handle by themselves.The local government also relied on these clans and gentry to govern the region.So unless some ethical tragedy happened, any government would ask for trouble to manage the property issues within the clan.So those legal provisions are basically useless.

Even if those women were really deprived of their property rights, as long as they could survive, they would never take these matters to law.Because women sue, there will be many difficulties.

This is the current rural situation.

After the establishment of the Republic of China, Tang Qunying was very disappointed with the government.

This includes disappointment with the Tongmenghui and the Kuomintang headed by Sun Yat-sen and the others, as well as disappointment with the Beiyang factions like Yuan Shikai.None of them really hope to promote "gender equality".That's why Tang Qunying returned to Hunan, mainly doing education work.

It is hoped that more women who have received modern education can be trained to promote "equality between men and women".

But now it's different.

Duan Xun, Prime Minister of the Cabinet, and Yang Wei, President of the Provisional Senate, these Beijing government controllers are currently very supportive of Tang Qunying, and support Tang Qunying's promotion of "equality between men and women."Although he did not directly express his position, it is completely different from the early leaders of the Beiyang Army such as Sun Yat-sen and Song Jiaoren and Yuan Shikai.

This time the lawsuit victory made Tang Qunying even more complacent.

I feel that the time has come to promote "equality between men and women".

So facing these reporters, Tang Qunying said in high spirits: "Patriarchal clan and etiquette, we must inherit the good ones and carry forward them. We must defeat the bad ones and cannibals. Some people use the patriarchal clan and rituals not to help the orphans and widows." Poverty, on the contrary, is bullying widows and widows. Some clans don’t care about face, and rob other people’s husbands of assets for profit. Is this bad behavior the patriarchal law that everyone respects, and the etiquette that everyone must abide by? We firmly cannot accept this patriarchal law and etiquette .”

"And there are many such things. I don't know how many sisters have been oppressed and bullied by the clan because of these so-called patriarchal and ritual laws. We established the Hunan Women's Federation to give these lonely and helpless sisters a backing. We want to let All women who are treated unfairly in this world can get justice."

"So we have decided to set up the China Women's Federation together with sisters from other provinces in Hunan and Changsha in a month's time."

"Wow—"

All the reporters were dumbfounded.

Some people who scolded Tang Qunying didn't know what to say.

It is not enough for you Tang Qunying to set up the Hunan Women's Federation and make a big fuss in Hunan. You also want to set up the Chinese Women's Federation?You are making trouble across the country.

You are going to turn the whole country upside down.

Damn.

woman.

Many people have never thought that women can cause such a big thing.