Another person chimed in, "If their views were correct, they should completely stop eating pork. Lard is refined from pork, so eating pork means ingesting lard. So, you see, a thousand-mile dike can collapse due to an anthill; don't underestimate these small details."
Du Heng fully agreed with this statement.
Yet, it was this simple truth that many ordinary people still believed, even regarding it as gospel, which was both laughable and sad.
Du Heng sighed and then said slowly, "Let me tell you another thing. There was a time when they heavily promoted the Western female lifestyle, encouraging our women to adopt those Western standards. This meant that during their menstrual periods, women should not have dietary restrictions or worry about raw and cold food. After giving birth, they should also be like Western women and abandon the tradition of the confinement period. They claimed the confinement period was a feudal remnant, a shackle on women that should be discarded.
