Chang Yung-fa, a history professor at National Taiwan Normal University, has written: "After they were seven years old, girls could no longer sit or eat together with boys, and after the age of ten, they were hidden away deep in the women's quarters and taught needle-work by their mothers.
師範大學歷史系教授張玉法曾為文描述：「在家中七歲以後，男女不同席、不共食；十歲以後，女子要深處閨房，由母親教以女紅，和外面的男子，不能有任何往來。」