children, filial piety, filial respect, love and kindness, stepmother
Lu Kun, a famous literary scholar and thinker during the Ming Dynasty, compiled the book Virtue for Women. In this book, he emphasizes that the most important thing for a biological mother is to teach her children correctly and not overindulge them. However, for a stepmother, the most important thing is to be more patient and ...
Stepmothers are often stereotyped, perhaps in part due to the treatment they receive in stories like Cinderella, as being wicked, unreasonable, and cruel. But in ancient China, in the state of Wei during the Zhou Dynasty, there once emerged a kind-hearted stepmother who, with virtues that are unimaginable today, positively influenced her five stepsons who ...
