Men worked in the fields it help fend for their family. They worked long hours in the sun day after day trying to farm the best crop By tilling the tell the soil was so soft it ran through your fingers like a bunch of fine sand. Then they would go row by row planting seeds and watering them. Then later once they have grown they have to go up and down the rows to check to see if their plants are doing fine and watering them day after day tell it is time to harvest, their wheat rice or vegetables. …show more content…
The one major difference in China is that there where no weekends you go to school each and every day from 6am to 4 pm. all you had to sit on was a stool in school you would learn to read and write and draw and memorizing page after page of confucian philosophy. that was the extent of the eliminatory school education. and that is what you did tell you where 16 or 17 after that you took a test and that test is what made you able to work in the government. It was not because you where a farmers son or a rich politician. This was the best way to advance your social status. One more thing that men did was teach there kids lessons, like not to steel from any one. In the book “The Good Earth” Wang Lung beat his son because he was skipping out of school and was walking the streets every day instead. This made wang lung mad because his son was letting go of the best thing his son has ever had and letting it go down the drain. This is big because Wang Lung was a farmer and he never had these opportunities, so Wang Lung did what he thought was the wright thing to do and that was to beat some sense in to his son. One other time wang Lung taught his kids a lesson was when they went to the south and needed food, and one of his sons went to a butcher and stole a pice of beef. Wang Lung was furious because he is an honest man and he works hard for every thing he gets and earns so Wang Lung took his son out side and beat some sense in to his son, until he learned a lesson not to steal ever