1. Were there really concubines in ancient times? When a man reaches marriageable age, he will find a suitable woman to marry. According to the Book of Rites of the Zhou Dynasty, ancient weddings were divided into the following six procedures: accepting gifts, asking names, concubinage, accepting gifts and welcoming relatives. As the saying goes, "parents' orders, matchmakers' words." "The ancients had to ask the matchmaker to propose to the woman's house first, and then get the woman's consent before they could make a dowry. The ancients paid attention to "the matchmaker should marry", and no matchmaker would violate the rules.
Ask the name later. As the name implies, ask a woman's name and birthday; The two sides set up a match, and then entered the Naji link, mainly to tell the woman the result of the name inquiry and give her a gift. After Najib, he will be recruited. The so-called recruitment is to send a bride price. Whether the bride price is expensive or not depends on the man's financial resources, usually gold, silver, Juan and so on.
After the dowry is delivered, the next step is to choose a sunny day to get married, which is an invitation. The last step is to greet the bride in person. The groom will go to the bride's house and take her home in a big sedan chair. In ancient times, men only performed six rites when they married their wives, and concubinage did not require any ceremony.
"Spring and Autumn Annals" says: "A woman is a concubine, but I am not jealous". Because the concubine room is "not in the right place", there is no place in the family. Those scenes of concubines bullying their wives are all for ratings. Real concubines, it's too late to curry favor with their wives, how dare you provoke them! Yu, a poetess in the Tang Dynasty, married Li Yi, the champion. Li Yi's wife is very strict. She often beats and abuses Yu, but she dare not say anything, let alone protect Yu.
Moreover, concubines can also be bought, sold or transferred. There is a cloud in the Book of Rites: "Those who buy concubines have the same property as their base." Here, concubines have been defined as an article and a commodity, so they can be bought and sold freely. The Law of the Tang Dynasty stipulates that "concubines are cheap" and "concubines know how to buy and sell". It is because of my "commodity" status that I am sometimes treated as a gift. It is common for ancient scholars to exchange concubines, which is regarded as an elegant thing. According to relevant historical records, Su Dongpo has sent his concubines away many times, and it is said that two of them are still pregnant.
The status of the concubine room is so low, so is it true that the concubine room in the TV series has a wife and then takes the upper position? The answer is almost non-existent. There were strict rules in the ancient marriage system, and concubines were not allowed to be upright. If the wife dies, you can prove that the media married a wife again. If you marry a concubine, you have to hit the ninetieth board. If the wife is still alive and helps the concubines, it is necessary to hit a hundred big boards and order them to correct.
2. The gap between wives and concubines can best reflect the different status of wives and concubines. According to the feudal system, a wife can be buried with her husband after death, that is, in the same cave, while a concubine can't, either buried aside or buried elsewhere, in short, buried alone.
In this way, the status gap between wives and concubines will be clear at a glance. The ancients paid attention to the right family, so a large family would definitely marry a woman of the same level. Concubines come from different backgrounds, some are small families, some are prostitutes, and some are handmaids. In a word, their status is not high. Generally speaking, it is impossible for my concubine to attack my wife in TV dramas. This huge status gap will continue to the next generation.
The children born to my wife are all born and authentic. The daughter born to his wife is the first daughter, not his wife's wing room, wing room or concubines. Their children are called concubines, and their daughters are called concubines, also called collateral. In ancient times, a large family or aristocratic family, although on the surface, concubines were similar, were all daughters of their masters and good girls. There is not much difference in food and clothing between them, but the status, interests and psychological level of concubine and concubine in the family are quite different.
In ancient times, the wife was often in charge of the board of directors. It is because of this economic power that a wife loves her children deeply. Therefore, it is very natural for Di Zi to be favored more, and being favored also marks a higher status and more benefits.
3. The status of wives and concubines When talking about marriage, the man's family mostly chooses concubines, because concubines represent the status of the woman's family, and concubines are the last choice after no concubines or concubines are married. At the same time, because the first mother is usually the daughter of a big family or a noble family, when she marries into her husband's family, most of them will bring rich dowry, including gold and silver, which are all owned by the first mother personally. When your daughter gets married, the dowry is naturally rich.
However, most ordinary female mothers are servants, and some even buy them from traffickers. When you get married, there is generally not much dowry, which means that private property is limited. So when her daughter, that is, an ordinary woman gets married, the dowry will be very different from the first daughter.
To sum up, I think everyone knows that the fate of ancient concubines is actually very tragic. They all rely on their husband's family to support them. Even their temples and genealogies do not record their names, and sometimes they are even moved like objects. Maybe they don't want to be concubines, but it is precisely because of their tragic fate that they can't get rid of their low status that they have to be concubines, hoping to spend their lives safely. How dare you have the idea of legally replacing Tang Huo!