Young women generally refer to married women with independent economic ability. Now it generally refers to older married women with independent financial ability. It focuses on marital status, so married people can be called young women.

In the official dictionary, women are defined as adult women. Not just married women. In judicial interpretation, women above 14 are defined as women, and men and women below 14 are defined as children. Female refers to unmarried women. Women refer to married women, so women generally refer to women.

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Before the Qing Dynasty, "women" and "women" refused to appear together, and they had their own representative groups. Unmarried people are called "women" and married people are called "women".

The definition of "woman" in Shuo Wen Jie Zi is: a working woman with a left broom and a right dustpan who does housework every day and listens to her husband. It was in the Qing Dynasty that married women and unmarried women became one. Moreover, "woman" is not a word based on physiology, but a concept in kinship. Only women who can get married and have children are qualified to be called women.

A woman's well-educated performance is not that she is proficient in piano, chess, calligraphy and painting, but that she can serve her husband comfortably.

During the Republic of China, new women who went to work refused to call themselves "women" in order to draw a clear line with traditional foot-binding housewives. The name of female group has changed from "woman" representing family and kinship to "woman" based on physiology.