¹Taemonim one day declared, “Wives are the hallowed boji of heaven and earth. Do you know what boji means?²Bo (寶) is ‘treasure,’ ji (地) is ‘earth.’³It is wonderful that wives prepare and serve you meals; it is wonderful that they sew and provide you clothes; it is wonderful that they hold ancestral memorial offering rituals; and it is wonderful that they give birth to your sons and daughters and continue the family line.⁴Therefore, you men should prostrate yourselves before the boji.⁵So why do you instead scorn it? You wretches!” With this, She beat the male disciples over the head with Her tobacco pipe.

⁶Taemonim also declared, “To properly uphold the dao of your household, show humility to your wife and honor her, treating her with utmost care.”