In the feudal society, the people at the bottom of the society lived very hard, and some of them even had problems with food and clothing, and they worked hard in the fields for a year, but in the end they were working hard for the harvest of the landlord's family, not to mention marrying a wife and having children, and continuing the incense.
Then we can't help but wonder, how did the life of the ancient commoners continue to be so difficult for future generations?
In ancient times, poor families wanted to continue the incense in two ways, but both of them were somewhat unacceptable.
First of all, the first is the rotation system of "polyandry". This system is understood literally, that several families in the same situation, most of them close companions, neighbors, or brothers, will marry a wife.
This may sound appalling, but it was a real thing in ancient society, and the woman was considered to be the common wife of the men. In this way, whether it is the cost of the wedding or the subsequent economic expenses, etc., can be borne by these husbands' families.
Although this method can alleviate the financial burden and continue the incense of multiple families to a certain extent, it is an out-and-out Xi, which undoubtedly ruined the woman's life. In fact, this was also a helpless move in that society at that time.
The system of "polyandry" was more synonymous with mediocrity and fornication at that time, just like in the Spring and Autumn Period, the monarch of Chen State, together with his ministers and the same woman, openly fornicated in the court, which eventually caused the dissatisfaction of the ministers and ruined his reputation.
This kind of bad custom is an inevitable experience of the change of marital status in a primitive society to a certain degree of civilization. Of course, this also includes some factors of mediocrity and fornication in the ancient court, and this is not the inevitable development of the times.
The second is to "borrow other people's wives to continue the incense", this way sounds more bizarre, the essence of this way is to borrow some wives from wealthier families to be temporary couples for a period of time, usually for three to five years, and through this time to get the woman pregnant, in this way to continue the incense.
During this period, the woman can also go back to the original family to visit, but it is forbidden to be with the original husband**, only when the woman gives birth to a child for the family she is staying in now can she return to the original family to live a normal life, but she gave birth to a child during the period of being "borrowed", and she cannot recognize it later.
This method was somewhat sensational even in feudal society, and most of the families who practiced this practice were living in extreme hardship at that time, and had to use this kind of subordinate strategy to continue the incense. And it is undoubtedly women who suffer the most from this practice.
If the woman returned to her original family, what would she suffer?What's more, this practice is to borrow a wife from a wealthy family, and the woman who is "borrowed" knows without thinking that she must be from a poor family and a low-status person in the family.
In the social background and social atmosphere at that time, this kind of behavior was actually very common, which was undoubtedly a contempt for women's human rights, and at the same time, this practice would ruin a woman's life. The woman who falls into this kind of marriage has no right to make her own choice, and even her family takes it for granted.
In this form, women are more regarded as a commodity, without the right to choose and resist, and at the same time, under the oppression of the background of the times, they can only choose to go against the grain, and what is even more outrageous is that some of these women will often be resold many times until they are old and decrepit.
Regarding these two ways of marriage in ancient times, it is undoubtedly inhumane now, women's rights were ignored at that time, and women were not respected, which is undoubtedly the sadness of an era. However, the ideology of feudal society is proud of this, and it has to be said that it is a distortion of human nature and thought.