Adult healthy women during the Qin and Han Dynasties were required to undertake corvee labor in turns.In the second year of Emperor Jing's reign,the imperial decree that men start registering tax obligations when they were 20 years old was not proven that women were exempt from changing labor.Gen-erally speaking,adult women in the Qin and Han Dynasties were equivalent to minor workforce among adult men.They usually undertake light physical labor.This is also fully reflected in the records of disabled people and"Dingzhong Zhi"(丁中制)in the Western Jin Dynasty.The commoner women in the Qin and Han Dy-nasties undertook the labor with the identity named"Danü"(大女).There is no division from light to heavy or heavy to light about women's labor.The age that women starting service was earlier than men of the same age.This was one of the fundamental reasons why adult men need to FuJi(傅籍)when they meet the condi-tions of corvee.The women had their own registration methods for practicing corvee labor,which was differ-ent from FuJi.In the Qin Dynasty,women used marriage as the starting standard of labor,supplemented by height and age,while in the Han Dynasty,women mainly relied on age or marriage.Their height is usually six feet or more,and their age should be around fifteen years old.Civilian women can also enjoy the privilege of exemption from labor based on their husbands'title of nobility."Chanzi Fu"(产子复)means that pregnant women who give birth are exempt from tax and corvee for two or three years,while their husbands are ex-empt from one year of tax and corvee."Chanzi Fu"was one of the national policy to encourage childbirth.
The Qin and Han DynastiesCorvee LaborQiyi(起役)Exemption from CorveeChanzi Fu
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