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- Small Feet
- Respect
- Education
- Order
- Having Koi Fish as household pets
- Foot binding (woman 'bind' wrap their feet up when they were young to stop it from growing so that they had small feet)
- Living in caves
- Marriage
- Children being treated equally
- Believing in Spirits
- Woman were valued for their ability to weave
- Small feet were considered extremely beautiful
- The King was to be respected
- The world is a spiritual place
- Ancestors respected and worshiped
- Believing in spirits
- Hard work is rewarded
- Polygamy was not encour-aged but was accepted (having more then one partner)
- Koi fish symbolised wealth
- The wicked will be punished
Norms
Values
Ideas
Beliefs
Values, Norms and Beliefs in the Time of Yeh - Shen
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