In old China,women were just child bearing tools,and they were often persecuted by their parents-in-law or abandoned by their husbands because they were unable to provide any offspring,let alone a son.

• 旧中国，妇女是生育的工具，因不育或没有生男孩而被公婆歧视、被丈夫遗弃的现象比较普遍。