father-daughter

the father-daughter relationship, although confucius did not consider it important, came closer to his ideal of respectful and tender love than did the father-son relationship. the clever and beautiful girl who is her father's favorite is as common in chinese poetry, novels, and stories as in our own. chinese history and fiction also contain heroines as devoted to their fathers as antigone was to hers. there are many energitic girls who perform deeds of bravery to avenge their parents such as the "Rainbow Girl" heroine of one of the modern and new strange stories. a seventeenth century collection, who allowed herself to be captured by several men in succestion in order to find her father's murders or Ho Yu-Feng, the brave and wise heroine of story of a courageous girl, a favorite nineteenth-century novel of adventure. the greatest exploits of Mulan, the famous girl soldier, were inspired not by patriotism but by filial piety. mulan joined the army to substitute for her old father.