The weather was getting colder, and there were fewer people coming and going on the main street than usual.
The northwest wind was howling, but the business of those lively teahouses was booming.
Tong Yingying, the daughter of Censor Tong, had not been as famous as Qiao Ruoyi in the past two years, but she had a good reputation among literati.
Today, she wrote an essay on filial piety, which was widely circulated among literati.
In the article, Tong Yingying praised the clan system
At the end of the article, she criticized Qiao Jinniang for ignoring her clansmen for money and scolded other imperial censors for not impeaching Qiao Jinniang for fear of offending her.
In the end, she questioned that if there were no clan system, what was the difference between Datang and the barbarians?
If there were no clansmen, there wouldn't even be an ancestral temple, and no one would worship you after your death.
