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Bai Shouyi's Outline History of China - China History Forum, chinese history forum (6224 words) |
 | Bai's concern with Chinese myth and legend is mostly what we can infer from it about the state of Xia and pre-Xia society; he's not interested in learning mythology for its own sake or to understand the mental image ancient Chinese had of their world. |
| Matriarchy again: Bai writes "That the tribal chiefs were said to be sons of gods actually reflects the fact that in a society of matriarchal clans people knew only who their mothers were but not their fathers." Balderdash. |
| According to Bai himself in the previous chapter, the Longshan culture was patriarchal, and simple chronology shows that the tribal chiefs described in the chapter must have been born long after the foundation of the Longshan culture and the end of the theoretically matriarchal Yangshao. |
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