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As the saying goes, "Better die poor than marry". What is a wife? Why can't you marry the poor?

As the saying goes, "Better die poor than marry and have children." The wife mentioned here is a divorced woman, because it was feudal in ancient times, and divorced women were regarded as the embodiment of bad luck, so people were very afraid and would rather die of poverty than marry a divorced woman.

Nowadays, many people are no longer unfamiliar with this sentence. Many proverbs contain profound truth, so they can be circulated for thousands of years. There is a saying that "it is better to persuade gambling than whoring, and it is better to be poor than to marry." The first half of this sentence is easy to understand. Gambling has been a bad habit since ancient times. Once I like gambling, it's hard to give it up. Many people lose their money because of gambling.

But if you persuade people not to go whoring, people may not appreciate you, because this kind of thing is a matter of two people and a taboo. If you discourage you again and again, people will be very disgusted with you. Better die poor than marry and have children. In ancient times, some women were divorced, that is, divorced women. They must have done something very bad and outrageous. Such a woman is definitely not allowed to get married, which means that divorced women in ancient times were unlucky. The ancients were very afraid of having wives. So I would rather die poor than marry a wife.

But this sentence is so extreme that no one wants to die of poverty. Besides, feelings are two people's business, and the failure of marriage is not the fault of one person, nor should it be entirely attributed to divorced women. This statement is a prejudice against women. Fortunately, there is no such feudal concept now.