What were the bad habits in ancient China? (except foot binding)

The ancient people married three wives and four concubines, the main purpose of which was to carry on the family line. The meaning of three wives and four concubines should mean polygamy. The ancient emperor also had seventy-two concubines in three palaces and six courtyards. The so-called three wives and four concubines in ancient times mainly refers to a marriage system in feudal period.

This is the persecution of women. If a man is widowed, it is a mistress for him to remarry, and it is a bad habit for a woman to remarry. Men are superior to women, and women can only be attached to men, which is the result of the social system, and this result has intensified the hierarchical differentiation between men and women, so there are groups of men's wives and concubines, while women can only be loyal to each other.

2, refers to the abdomen for marriage

Old marriage customs. It is popular in vast areas of the country. That is, before the child is born, both parents agree to get married. Others are afraid that men and women will not recognize each other when they grow up, or that one party will not keep its word, so they cut the skirt into two pieces and hold one piece as a voucher, which is called "finger-cutting" or "finger-cutting".

3. Don't read.

As the saying goes, a woman without talent is virtue. Ancient women had few opportunities to study, let alone go to private schools. Only a few enlightened families support their daughters to study, and most women are illiterate and unable to enjoy the right to education.

4. Child brides

Child bride is a baby girl, a young girl raised by her husband's family. When an adult is formally married or an adult woman marries an underage man, there is a big age gap between husband and wife, and there is a phenomenon of "little wife and little sister", which has no emotional foundation. Child brides have to undertake all the housework since childhood, and their status is as low as that of handmaids, which makes them miserable.

5. Widowhood

"Hunger is a small thing, but shame is a big thing." In ancient times, if a woman didn't serve two husbands, she had to be loyal to her husband. A husband could remarry if he lost his wife, and a widowed woman had to be sober, even if her unmarried husband died. It is considered immoral for widows to remarry. In order to encourage more widowed women to be widowed, the court even set up chastity memorial archways to honor chastity women. Countless women, after their husbands died, died alone and the evening scenery was bleak.

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