Yuan Mei [an eighteenth-century author] wrote a poem in whicn he likened having a daughter to "passing the county exams on the supplementary rolls"; this bit of pedantic ostentation is interesting, but it also reveals the feudalistic way of thinking in which males were valued more highly than females.
袁枚寫詩，把生女兒說成「情疑中副車」；這書袋掉得很有意思，卻也流露了重男輕女的封建意識。