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Ancient women were immature. Why did they get married and have children when they were thirteen or fourteen?

2 1 century today, we all know that the legal age for marriage is clearly stipulated by our national laws. Boys are 22 years old and girls are not allowed to get married until they are 20 years old. If they are underage, they can't get a marriage license. But in ancient times, many women were married and had children when they were only 14 years old. There are many practical reasons for this, such as the deep-rooted traditional feudal thought.

In ancient times, we all knew about foot binding. We heard from the elders at home that in the generation above our grandmother, many girls bound their feet in order not to let them go far. They just stay at home every day to educate their children and do their part. In ancient times, men were encouraged to stay outside and women stayed inside. Therefore, girls don't have to travel far. We can also watch the video of foot-binding on the Internet. It's really golden. Now we look terrible, but in ancient times, it was a kind of beauty, which did great harm to girls and embodied the feudal thought of giving preference to boys.

Also, in ancient times, marriage was all about advocating parents' orders and matchmakers' words. Parents don't care about their children's inner thoughts until they reach marriageable age, which is what we call finding someone to marry you, and the water spilled by the married daughter. They think that as long as they get married, they belong to someone else's house. That's why I have this idea. I have worked hard to raise my daughter, and I don't have to marry someone else when I grow up. In ancient times, because of the low living standard, parents hardly spent money to send their daughters to school for education. At that time, only boys could go to school, so it was a manifestation of inequality between men and women and preference for boys, so I would marry my daughter very early.

But now, with the improvement of social living standards, these problems naturally do not exist. Now the equality between men and women advocated by many feudal ideas has gradually disappeared.