First, ancient women didn't go to school. In Empress Xu's Internal Training in the Ming Dynasty, it was written that the ancients must teach well. Men enter primary school at the age of eight, and women listen to Mu religion for ten years. In other words, in ancient times, boys could go to school for primary education at the age of eight, while girls had to be educated at home at the age of ten.
Boys can have teachers at school, but girls have no formal teachers at home. It is usually taught by parents or nannies at home. If the family conditions are good, teachers can be invited to teach at home. For example, in A Dream of Red Mansions, Jia Yucun once worked as a tutor for Lin Daiyu. In Do You Know, Sheng, Sheng Moran and Sheng Rulan asked for private education, because their brothers were studying and they followed them to class. This type was very rare in ancient times.
In ancient times, there were very strict boundaries between men and women, so they could not touch each other casually. After the age of ten, women generally stay at home and can't go out casually. Even if you want to go out, you should cover your face with a headscarf or gauze hat, and then hurry home after you finish your work. You are not allowed to flirt with men outside.
Second, the content of education received at home Girls are taught by their parents or nannies at home. The content they study is generally mainly the content of "three obedience and four virtues". They are not married to their fathers, husbands and sons; Female virtue, female speech, female appearance, female merit.
Besides these, they must also learn some practical skills in daily life, such as cooking, sewing, textile and household chores. Conditional women will also learn some literary knowledge such as poems and songs.
Women in aristocratic families pay more attention to knowledge of poetry and literature. For example, the old lady Sheng in Do You Know specially asked someone to teach her granddaughters the knowledge of illustration, tea tasting and aromatherapy, so that they can understand this knowledge in the future, so as not to make people feel shabby and look down upon it. This knowledge belongs to a kind of social knowledge in the aristocratic circle.