[ nángēngnǚzhī ] men tilling the farm and women weaving; men do farm work and women engage in spinning and weaving.; the men plough and the women weave
The moral economy of the peasant in the traditional rural society had been challenged under the new historic conditions since it was the twentieth century , because of the shock of the commodity wave , the pressure of the population and all kinds of the natural calamity . the only mode of production of the " man ploughing and woman weaving " in the past could not keep pace with the demand of the times 20世纪以来,受商品化浪潮的冲击、人口的压力及各种自然灾害等原因,传统乡村社会农民的道义经济在新的历史条件下受到了挑战,过去单一的男耕女织的生产方式已不适应时代发展的要求。