Are traditional media all official media?

The reason why the ancient matchmaker was both a matchmaker and an ancient civil servant was that the matchmaker was also an official in ancient times. In ancient times, there were two kinds of matchmakers, one was private media and the other was private matchmaker enterprises. Such a matchmaker is not a civil servant. There is also an official media, which is actually an official of the court, so it is also paid by the court and can also receive a salary every month, so these people are civil servants.

In ancient times, the official media had many other functions besides introducing men to school-age women. At that time, riots often occurred in the border areas, and the Xinjiang issue has always been a very serious problem that plagued the king. At that time, in the Qing Dynasty, there were many single men in the border areas of Xinjiang, and the king often sent them to the border areas when dealing with criminals at that time, resulting in many single men in Xinjiang.

But the existence of these men is likely to make Xinjiang restless, so the official media at that time needed to introduce these men to marry women in Xinjiang to prevent riots and chaos in Xinjiang. In addition, another function of official media is to prevent ancient men and women from eloping. These official media also need to patrol at night, such as in the streets.

Because in ancient times, men and women could not meet before marriage, let alone have sex in private. These people can't meet at ordinary times, but they like to meet secretly at night, and the official media is to prevent these people from meeting privately, so the official media also need to shoulder the responsibility of patrolling at night. At that time, the official media actually played a role in maintaining the balance between men and women.

At that time, the ratio of men to women was in the hands of the official media. If there are more men than women in a certain area, the local official media will arrange for the widowed widow to remarry. If there are more women than men in a place, it is likely to try to match men with three wives and four concubines. So the official media is not that simple.