Based on the continuous fieldwork and case records of female Buddhist and laywomen in Chinese society (2009-2020), this study addresses the issue of Chinese women born after the 1980s seeking spiritual resources from Buddhism. In this regard, these women, entrenched in the specific historical and social context of Chinese patriarchal society, tended to explore new aspects of the experience of being a woman: self-experiences, self-explorations. In 1980, China began to implement the one-child policy. The 36-year strict implementation of this policy, ended by 2016, nevertheless played a crucial role in the disintegration of the traditional Chinese social structure. The conventional Chinese peasant society, the core system of "family inheritance" and patriarchy's structural concept have encountered significant challenges due to the existence of numerous only children produced by this policy. Hence, the social system and culture built around the patriarchal society and "ancestry" also faded away. Far from satisfying the only-child class who have mastered tremendous social resources, contemporary Chinese society has not even provided them with a corresponding spiritual space and social position. As an alternative spiritual resource, Buddhism has become one of the few effective choices, considering its equality and social isolation. In individual cases, we have observed that some female lay Buddhists eventually choose to become nuns. However, their life experiences are closely connected with the era background of China's opening reforms, and one-child policy, which jointly shaped their destiny: the mobility generated by the reforms allowed them to find their own path, through study and work. Then, by maintaining a geographical distance from their original family, social distance was also created, preventing the influence of collectivism to a certain extent, as well as providing some individualistic autonomy; With the one-child policy, the successor found some economic independence, athwart the concentration of family resources.
