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Q: what is a "traditional chinese woman"?

i am sick and tired of hearing "i'm a traditional chinese woman" , and i hear it from everyone. what are the aspects that go into a traditional chinese woman?

12 years 25 weeks ago in  Culture - China

 
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I suppose that is what they think you want to hear. Honestly, it doesn't really mean much if every girl says she is. She is a woman, she is Chinese, traditional really isn't necessary. Maybe she doesn't know what else to say about herself. After all, people have already complained on here that they don't have any hobbies, so what else can they say about themselves. Describe her family? Say where she is from? That her hobbies are eating and sleeping (like my students do)? I think my students were actually sad when I said those weren't hobbies.

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Traditional Thai women. Traditional Filipina. Traditional Malaysian women. Traditional Singaporean women. Traditional Australian. I have no idea what it means in reality.
I'm a bit like Njord - traditional male so I have something in common with them all!! It's a start.
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Traditional means boring. Traditional means zero ambition. It means she does nothing and has no future. Her life plan is to get married and have a baby, cook, clean and put up with everything. She is traditional because of this and because she will keep her mouth closed so as not to let known her absence of personality and ability to think for herself.

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Tired of dirt and lies.

 
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It's just a blanket excuse for anything. Casual fun, demanding marriage, not being able to describe herself, basically when she don't have a good reason or answer then she uses it.

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traditional = conservative with the unwillingness to embrace change.

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Ignorant and sheltered woman scared of penises.

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In my experience of having many friends who have chinese girlfriends and also having a lot of chinese girls as friends I can say this: Traditional Chinese woman is a blanket term they use with foreigners maybe with chinese men too I don't know. It is used as an excuse to not do anything they really don't want to. Have sex with a boy you are seeing? no I am a traditional chinese girl... you need to marry me first or buy me a phone or ipod. Drink beer with your friends? No I am a traditional chinese girl aka: I don't want to be around your friends especially if they are girls. you get the idea.

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Chinese traditional aesthetics of the female beauty of the evaluation include: emphasize the unity of emotion and reason, the unity of beauty and righteousness. It gives the Oriental woman with a unique sense of beauty.
Chinese aesthetic characteristics must be reasonable, determined to make beautiful and good combination. It is hard to avoid the traditional Chinese philosophy, Buddhism, Confucianism, Tao of Chinese social and cultural ideas, especially" deposed 100, only Confucianism number" of Confucianism, China's feudal society become orthodox, Chinese aesthetic tendency and moral judgment for thousands of years in which the immersion. Confucius said:" Hing in the poem, in the ceremony, as in music." " Book of Rites", said: "the ceremony, world order; music, and the universe is". Therefore, Chinese aesthetics to intercede with the ceremony, to the fusion, to follow the" order", the evaluation of female beauty, so much.
On the traditional female beauty of the evaluation criteria, Oriental beauty survey scale, agglutination of poetry, painting, music, books and other artistic essence of beauty. " Chufafurong, natural and lovely"," Pujinliexiu, carved multi-color eyeful". " Waterlilies" and" gorgeously wrought -- colourfully and dazzlingly embellished", these two kinds of beauty or ideal of beauty, in Chinese traditional poetry, painting, arts and crafts of various aspects, female beauty is the traditional Chinese four big beautiful women image, namely Shi, Diao Chan, royal, Zhaojun (say for another bun ), Xi Shi Sha Stream, fish so shy, is more beautiful; Diao Chan share, garden for religious worship, that the close beauty; drunken concubine, bath floating flower pool, called shy flowers beauty; Zhaojun's snow all over the sky, the wind, wild goose, that the beauty of the wild goose. Chinese traditional aesthetics. Pay attention to the person and natural unity, more, wild goose, close, shy flowers are extremely enjoyable to the indirect description the main outstanding beauty, human beauty is fused in the mountains and flowers and birds, the nature. At the same time, the four beauties are divided into two categories: the beauty and the Diao Chan QL and elegant, as the Chinese traditional opera in Tsing Yi, embodies the " waterlilies" fresh beauty; and the Royal and Zhaojun because of the identity and difference, a rich and generous, like the drama in the stage show," gorgeously wrought -- colourfully and dazzlingly embellished" flavor. Chinese traditional aesthetic perception is subtle and elegant. " Book of songs" to the woman beautiful shape description is indirect, and deserve careful taste," Jianjia gray, White Dew and frost, the so-called Iraqi people, in the water side"," pass osprey, on the river boat, a quiet and modest maiden, a gentleman's good mate", this word is in woman's face, and one of the missing love inspires readers to woman beautiful great association.
History of the classical four beautiful women, have their own touching and poignant story, carefully, in their bodies, in addition to the beautiful appearance, but also embodies a political force to the tragic charm. They are regarded as the traditional beauty, but also because their beauty and love and courtesy, consistent with a good, consistent with the feudal order.
In the TV series" Romance of the Three Kingdoms" in pursuit of freehand brushwork, picture, and attach importance to grasp in the style of characters, in the novel Diao Chan, and there is difficulty in convergence, is in front of Diao Chan Wang Yunxian series, to lay down one's life for justice, political struggle at the expense of their own, but when Cao Cao Pi behind the attack, the book has written:" cloth day not only, and Yan, Diao Chan," drinking with this description, so that Diao Chan was no personality, covet wealth frivolous woman, in order to keep Diao Chan affirms, swallow humiliation and bear a heavy load, strong personality, director Wang Fulin to let Diao Chan enter the stage with elegant quiet environment, at last, she again in the fire light out, at this time, all songs --" Diao Chan gone with the wind, a piece of cloud". We hear the voices: Diao Chan quality of the coming and going of purity. This successful treatment, because of their respect for historical relics beauty, also demonstrated the feminine personality. Similarly, beauty and was presented with Wu Wang, Zhaojun was married and luxuriant, Royal eventually committed suicide and three feet of Bai Ling, the United States, are derived from the feudal order maintenance. " The cultural implication of drama aesthetic characteristics, carrying forward the national cultural personality ideal, constitutes a beautiful world," Professor Ceng Qingrui in" TV principle" said," if one TV play, for the excellent tradition of the national culture to promote, for the national good personality to be developed, also reached the aesthetic realm of art."
Chinese aesthetics of the artistic conception theory, is the national culture treasure, we should carry forward, and feudal to oppression, fraud, greatly restricting the individuality, especially on the status of women and the liberation of personality problems, if the beautiful ideal personality to play, will form the modern correct aesthetic consciousness.

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https://www.scmp.com/news/china/society/article/2169127/young-chinese-women-angered-tv-blockbusters-twisted-patriarchal

 

Looks like gender studies will be a major in Chinese universities real soon.

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I have a traditional MIL. Free to good home. Hell, I will pay airfare to anyway in China. You can have an option on my Chinese wife too. But she is more complex cos she is mother of our child. So yeah.. wife no.. but the MIL is free:-)

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