Girls were considered an expense to their birth families, since they only became valuable when they married and bore sons for their new families.
I feel as if the girls were being treated poorly only because the Chinese society was run by men rather than nobles. Once they become of age then they have their purpose of serving for their husbands and children.
The Chinese, who valued silver higher than gold, called this the silver rule. Confucian social morality is based on this reciprocity and on empathy and understanding others rather than on divinely ordained rules.
Confucian is like saying " Treat people how you want to be treated" When he asked the student about the one word and he says "reciprocity" is saying that you should really put all of your factors into consideration before speaking or acting on something the way you don't want to.
Most Chinese words are made of one or more characters. For comparison, the English alphabet uses 26 letters and the average American has a practical vocabulary of about 10,000 words.
Along with my other annotation, Chinese characters are very important and someone that is not familiar with their culture and their characters that they use, I feel as if it would be a challenge to understand and try to learn these characters instead of letters and I believe that the Chinese culture should really cherish and be proud of that!
Chinese language is based on characters rather than on an alphabet, and is said to be the world’s oldest continually-used writing system.
I believe that this is a very important fact because people need to realize that the Chinese language is sacred and is very important to their culture. I also just think that its really cool they are able to use characters and not letters like I am using today!
Staple crops produce the foods that provide the greatest percentage of the calories people eat. It might surprise you that today only about fifteen staple crops account for 90% of the calories people eat every day. The top five are responsible for nearly three quarters, including feed for the animals whose meat we eat. They were all discovered/invented by ancient people between six and ten thousand years ago, and three of the five were invented in the Americas. The world’s five top five staples today (in order of importance) are maize (corn), rice, wheat, potatoes, and cassava. Only rice and wheat were known to Europe, Asia, and Africa before contact with the Americas.
it was really interesting to find out that only 15 staple crops account for about 90% of the calories in todays food. The five top staples in American are the foods that are used in our everyday lives with meals, and to think that's those items are giving you these amount of calories is really really interesting.