Stories from a ming collection.

Since 2200 B.C.E. they alternated in governing the empire different dynasties, the first of which was the Hsia dynasty and from it periods of unification and fragmentation occurred. In 221 B.C., Quin Shi Huang, founder of the Qin dynasty and proclaimed himself emperor unified under his command throughout China. The Great Wall of China was built by Emperor Quin Shi Huan to fend off the Asian peoples and has now reached 6,000 kilometers long. Human construction is best seen from space.Subsequent dynasties expanded the territories and cemented the splendor of China, although there were periods of decadence and foreign invasions.

Traditional Chinese society was strongly hierarchical. At the social summit members of the imperial family and the powerful class of the mandarins, lawyers who controlled the government officials were. Below is a minority of merchants and craftsmen was, and, finally, the peasantry.

Chinese culture reached a dramatic development from the V century B.C.E. Confucius preached the need to form a group of virtuous knights to lead the country and serve as an example to the people. Religious doctrine, Taoism sought a return to the primitive agricultural society with more natural forms of life.

Family was considered the social structure. Family life and social organization were inseparable. It was, in the family, where the State had its foundation. The family was the institution responsible for guaranteeing social stability, harmony and social system. Thus, in its scale of values important to the formation of large families it was granted, with grandparents, parents, children and grandchildren. This type of family, which lived three, four and even five generations was normal and ideal, and dividing it, would be considered shameful. Each large family was governed by a very strict patriarchal organization, based on a strict system of hierarchy. Within which the duties, obligations and rights were based on gender, age and generation, grounded, all in respect for parental authority is established.

Men and women in China had some differences, but not many. A good example to demonstrate this is the first reading of the book. The Lady Who Was a beggar, is a story that showed the power of the wife of a man. in many other civilizations wife had no right to opine, and worse, despise her husband. in the story the husband never react violently with her or attempted to put some kind of punishment to his wife for having offended him. This couple took a decision together, they got divorced and the women got married again with someone else. In the end, the only punishment the woman received was seeing the success of her husband, and she felt so bad that she decided to kill herself.

The woman had some power in medieval China, she could express her opinion freely and not feel oppressed by it, she could also remarry. In the same story, we can take as an example to Jade Slave,

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