Study room.

Room of the lord's daughter.

Embroidered clothes the ladies made themselves.

Women did receive some of the same education given to men, but a priority was placed on learning needlework and how to be a good and obedient housewife.

The Funeral Room

Family tradition had it that couples had to be buried together at the same time. If the husband or wife died, the deceased wasn't to be buried until the other party died. Before that, the coffins were placed in a special funeral room. This rule was broken by a widow named Jiang Zhengguo in the 1930s. She held a grand funeral for her husband, son, father-in-law, and daughter-in-law, even though she and her mother-in-law were still alive.

On the funeral day, the procession stretched more than 5 kilometers. Hundreds of burial objects were burnt and the fire burned on for three days. Some 6 tons of wheat and 4 tons of yellow wine were consumed.

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