The Master said, "While his parents are alive, the son may not go abroad to a distance. If he does go abroad, he must have a fixed place to which he goes.".
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We can't start to phantom daily life in previous centuries and what people were thinking. I don't know about China, but here a quote from 'A Distant Mirror, The Calamitous 14th Century' by Barbara Tuchman:
"If children survived to age seven, their recognized life began, more or less as miniature adults. Childhood was already over. The childishness noticeable in medieval behaviour, with its marked inability to restrain any kind of impulse, may have been simply due to the fact that so large a proportion of active society was actually very young in years. About half the population, it has been estimated, was under twenty-one, and about one third under fourteen."