Upstairs, downstairs In reality, the Confucian idea that "a maiden obeys her father, a wife her husband, a widow her son" predates the writing of Ban Zhao, having been previously introduced in Bai Hu Tong, a work written in 79 AD.
事實上，最早提出三綱五常言論的，是東漢時代紀錄儒士議政的《白虎通》。