人都死了 还讲什么男女大防？
“The dead care little for the barriers drawn between men and women.”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
是啊 不如县主稍安 等温县令他们带衙役来查验
“That's right. Why doesn't Your Ladyship wait for Magistrate Wen to bring people?”
人都 死了 还讲什么 男女大防？
“The dead care little for the barriers drawn between men and women.”
“Even if Your Ladyship doesn't care, someone else does.”
“Solving a murder is far more important than worrying about ridiculous decorum between men and women.”
Traditional Chinese ethics strictly forbade physical contact or close scrutiny between unrelated men and women; here, modern investigative urgency directly clashes with feudal etiquette.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
the person is already dead
Used rhetorically to highlight that life-or-death realities outweigh formalities or petty disputes.
strict separation of the sexes / propriety boundary between men and women
A traditional four-character idiom referencing rigid classical gender boundaries and social avoidance.
Indicates a change of state to being deceased, reinforcing the futility of maintaining living taboos.
