Why is everyone so disappointed to give birth to a girl? (The Good Earth by

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Pearl S. Buck)? In chapter 7, Wang Lung walks into O-lan's room to retrieve some silver and he smells the blood from his wife. When he finds out that she has given birth to a girl, why is he so upset? Can't his daughter work in the fields too? What's the big deal?
 
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