A shadow as painful as death The book Commandments for Women by Ban Zhao of the Han dynasty prescribes that after the age of seven, girls and boys should not eat together, and especially after the age of 10, girls should be confined to the inner quarters.
在漢代班昭作《女戒》一書中，男女在七歲以後便不在一塊吃飯，女子尤其在十歲以後，就要養在深閨。