Introduction to Chinese Fertility Culture

Author: Pan Guiyu, Editor-in-Chief
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Publish Date: 2002-12-01
Features: Culture is a very broad concept, encompassing a vast array of categories. People can casually mention various types of culture, such as national culture, community culture, corporate culture, food culture, and even countless cultural terms like tobacco culture and alcohol culture. When it comes to fertility culture, some might think it is just one of the many general cultural categories, similar to tobacco culture or alcohol culture. However, a closer examination reveals that: fertility culture is quite different from general culture. It emerged with the birth of human society and has developed alongside its progress, always closely tied to the broad masses of people. It can be, it is the culture of the masses, the culture of development, and the eternal culture of human society. Fertility culture refers to the ideological consciousness and corresponding normative systems that people form in the context of reproduction and related activities, including the thoughts and theories, value systems, knowledge and skills, customs and habits, ethical morals, and behavioral norms that arise in activities such as marriage, family, reproduction, and birth control.