Ideal womanhood

[Marcos Rico]

This essay talls about the ideal woman according to Chinese tradition based on Confucian and Daoist ideology. I feel that this text could be a little challenging for 4th graders but we could used for Shared Reading over a couple of days. The first part talks from the Confucian ideology about how to be a ‘virtuous wife and good mother’ with virtue, talent, and beauty according to Liu Xiang. The second part talks from the Daoist ideology about the 4 stages of  development of body.   Building a foundation, cultivating essence to transform qi, cultivating qi to transform the spirit, and cultivating spirit and returning to emptiness.