How did the human marriage system evolve to today?

Marriage in modern society is monogamous, but if we go back to the early days of human history, we will find that people at that time had a completely different marriage life style from now. In fact, the marriage system of human beings has gradually evolved with the change of productive forces in a long history.

Early human beings mainly depended on family labor for survival. The mode of production was mainly women weaving at home, while men were mainly responsible for hunting and providing food.

Therefore, at that time, human society was matriarchal society, and the marriage system was also established on this basis. The main form is "walking marriage system". After the marriage, the husband and wife still live in their own homes, raised by older women in the family, and the children are also raised by their parents.

Later, men had more development opportunities in the vast world outside the family, and their leading role in society began to improve, while women's work was still confined to the family. At this time, the status of men is higher than that of women, and women gradually become the accessories of men, and polygamy becomes the mainstream.

With the industrial revolution, the mode of production of human beings has made a great leap. Machines have replaced a lot of human work, and the importance of manual labor has obviously declined. As a result, in the field of work, disadvantaged women also have the opportunity to compete in relatively equal, and more and more women have the independent ability and the space to pursue themselves. Equality between men and women became a reality to a certain extent, and monogamy was gradually adopted by people and became the main marriage system in modern times.

The development and evolution of marriage system is of course accompanied by the gradual deepening of human understanding of love and marriage.

At first, marriage was mainly to survive and better resist the powerful external environment. With the growing strength of human beings, the function of marriage is gradually changing.

Now, we regard marriage more as a natural marriage in two of a kind and a faithful guardian of beautiful love.