HIST 11B Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Physical Attractiveness, Foot Binding, Patrilineality
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Zhang zhai focuses on 2 elements: li and chi. Li - patterns /pricip found in nature and universe standard for human behavior there is li and everything oneness of principle (daoist idea of unity) pervades everything eternal, unchanging. Qi - material essence/ether/life force. physical maifestation li interacts with qi to give shape to all things accounts fo multiplicity of manifestations. Southern song - another shift in new elite can"t all do well and become officials turn attention to charity at local levels and family relief association clustered around schools and shrines. Fr was in the tradition of family instructions words of wisdom for lineage elders real life applications for philo weddings, funerals, capping, rights to venerate ancestors equally powerful legacy. Neo has been blamed for female infanticide and foot binding. Song dynasty is a watershed era for women as well. Tang paintings: women are bigfooted, on horses, fleshy.
