Why were Tang Dynasty women keen on cheating?

Then women not only dared to fire their husbands, but also cheated on their husbands to find an affair as a fashion, like losing weight, popular all over the country. What is this all about? That is to say, Confucius that year in the establishment of Confucianism, in order to ensure the long-term stability of patriarchal society, to the women put on a very strong tight band - chastity. Don't think that chastity only means that a woman should be insulated from pre-marital sex, but it also includes not remarrying, sticking to widowhood in case of widowhood, and so on. At that time, the majority of women compatriots, not to mention the divorce, is to produce such ideas are quite shameful behavior. However, after the fall of the Eastern Han Dynasty, with the five ethnic groups of Capricorn, dizi, Qiang, Xianbei and Xiongnu moving into the Central Plains, a variety of non-mainstream ideas and customs were integrated into traditional Chinese thought. Since the Yellow Emperor, the Chinese race, which had always been pure-blooded, began to mix with other ethnic groups, and even Emperor Li Shimin, the Emperor of Tang, was a descendant of the Xianbei people from a barbaric family name, Ono. Under such circumstances, the traditional view of chastity was subverted. Without subversion, there is no progress, so subversion itself is a kind of beauty. Tang Dynasty women that is called a happy, "Tang Law" stipulates that before marriage can be free to love, private life, if the parents do not agree that is the parents, as long as the two people love each other, the law will give absolute support, only underage and not from the elders of the honor of the person counted as a violation of the law, can be said to be my love I make the decision.

The lawmakers of the Tang Dynasty, in addition to taking care of women's pre-marriage treatment, also greatly improved the treatment after marriage. In previous generations, women were marriage slaves and had to wait for their husbands to get tired of them and then kick them back to their families, commonly known as "repudiation". In the Tang Dynasty, the situation changed drastically. If a woman was unfortunate in her married life, she could take the initiative to file for divorce and have her husband laid off. There were three kinds of regulations on divorce in the Tang Law: I. Divorce by agreement. This refers to the so-called "divorce by mutual consent": "If the husband and wife do not harmonize with each other and divorce, do not sit." Divorce by adjudication. This refers to the forced divorce initiated by the husband, the so-called "out of the wife". The Book of Rites provides seven grounds for divorcing a wife: disregard for parents, childlessness, adultery, jealousy, malignant disease, doleful speech, and theft. The Tang Law also largely adopted these provisions, if the wife violated one of them, the husband can justifiably repudiate his wife, without having to be judged by the officials, as long as the document is made, signed by the parents of the party and the witnesses, the marriage can be dissolved. But at the same time, the "Tang Law" and inherited the ancient women "three not go" rules, that is, had been for aunt and uncle mourning three years not go, married poor and then rich people shall not go, now homeless people shall not go to the wife. Any of the "three do not go", although the "seven out", the husband can not file for divorce; Third, forced divorce. Where a husband and wife are found to have "rightly rejected" and "married in violation of the law", they must be forcibly divorced. "Righteous extinction" includes assault and murder, adultery and murder, and murder by a husband against his wife's family, and by a wife against her husband's family. When the government judges that one of the parties has committed a crime of righteousness, the law forces a divorce and punishes those who refuse to divorce. For those who "violate the law by marrying and presuming to have become married," divorce was also mandatory. These explicit provisions in the Tang Law were essentially intended to strengthen the feudal patriarchal system and to consolidate the power of the husband under the patriarchal system. But we also see the positive and open side, in the feudal era, emphasizing the children from the end of the feudal era, can be stipulated in the form of legal provisions of the husband and wife "do not agree with each other" can be divorced, whether in the previous dynasty or in the later dynasties, its wife without "seven out" and "righteousness" and "righteousness" of the wife, or although blunt "seven out" and is "three not to go", the husband is not allowed to unauthorized divorce, or else be sentenced to one year's imprisonment, undoubtedly on the husband's right to be a restriction, on the This is undoubtedly a restriction on the husband's right and a protection of women's interests. In addition, the Tang Dynasty did not encourage women to be widowed, and after the death of their husbands, they would hand over a lot of their youth and years to the fence and the dog, and spend half of their lives in the boring life of "the star is still the same star". In the Tang Law, there were no constraints or restrictions on the divorce and remarriage of a woman's son or the death of her husband, which legally created certain conditions for the relative freedom of marriage. The relative loosening of marriage restrictions and the dilution of the concept of chastity also resulted in another consequence, which was the relative decline of social morals. Various forms of polygamy were more commonly practiced among the men of the upper classes in the Tang Dynasty. The emperor concubines such as clouds, hundreds of thousands; aristocrats and officials also borrowed a variety of pretexts, widely set up concubines. Even with his wife's deep love of Bai Juyi is no exception, in addition to concubines, the scholar class and the pleasure of aping prostitutes. With the men's concubines and prostitutes, looking for flowers and willow corresponds to the women in the upper class, but also often perform many lovers, extramarital affair. Take Wu Zetian as an example, as early as when she made Taizong talent, and Prince Li Zhi had an ambiguous relationship, when the emperor, more broadly set the face of the head, the election of beautiful young man as a chamberlain. There is an interesting story in the "Kaiyuan Tianbao": "Yang Guozhong went on a mission to Jiangsu and Zhejiang. His wife misses y. Suddenly, she dreamed of having intercourse with Guozhong and became pregnant, and later gave birth to a man named Help. Guozhong make return, his wife described what happened in the dream. Guozhong said: 'This cover husband and wife miss each other emotionally.' The people at the time were all laughing." Pregnant in a dream is just a deceptive front, and Yang Guozhong to his wife's behavior is not only not to blame, but to excuse it, which in addition to their own reputation, can only say that there is a husband and wife are not forbidden to the tacit understanding. The upper beam is not correct, the lower beam is naturally crooked. In the Tang Dynasty, women eloped, fornication and other gossip, almost every day, endless. The Tang Dynasty's novels provided many examples in this regard. These examples show that, in the Tang Dynasty marriage, monogamy is not only for the husband, but also for the wife's restrictions are not very strict, women in the "no taboo" situation, also enjoy the same men with the same freedom of extramarital affairs. As the advertisement said, to be a woman is really very comfortable.