It is said that the hatred of taking a wife is not shared, so what are the serious consequences of cuckolding people in ancient times?
A long time ago, the ancients had the concept of marriage, once a man and a woman become husband and wife, they must be loyal to the marriage, and secretly cheating and adultery are absolutely intolerable.
Therefore, all dynasties have always been very strict about cuckolding people in marriage.
For example, in the Qin Dynasty, if a man and a woman were found to be cheating in marriage, the cuckolded party could beat the adulterer to death on the spot, and if it went to the government, the cheating parties had to go to labor together.
In the Han Dynasty, the punishment became heavier and heavier, and once it was found that there was cheating, the man's direct palace punishment could be regarded as a permanent confiscation of the tools of the crime.
In the Tang and Song dynasties, the official punishment for adultery was slightly lighter, basically exile for one or two years, which was lighter than the previous dynasties.
And in the Yuan Dynasty, it became stern again. If they are caught committing adultery, both parties will strip naked and be beaten with boards, and if they don't die, they will have half a life, not to mention being punished without clothes in public, and even if they live, they will have no face to see.
In the Ming and Qing dynasties, it was basically similar to the Yuan Dynasty, and it was also the first to obey the board, but there were more and more of them, and the Qing Dynasty also stipulated that the husband could resell his adulterous wife to others, of course, the lover was not qualified to buy.
In addition to these regulations stipulated by the government, there have always been various lynchings in ancient times, such as the pig cage that everyone is familiar with.
As a punishment in the old days, the frequency of soaking pig cages in the clan is relatively high, and it is a cruel punishment that makes people die physically and psychologically.
Pig cages, as the name suggests, are cages for pigs, which are bamboo products made to facilitate the transportation of pigs.
Using a pig cage to pretend to be a person is already a very insulting behavior, not to mention that they will put the wrongdoer ** up and put it in the cage, and then put it in the river to drown, according to the severity of their crimes, either death or injury, mainly depends on the will of the executioner.
Because adultery is dishonoring, even if there is a death, the deceased's family has no face to go to the government to make trouble, even if they don't want to make trouble with the government, the government will not do anything, and most of them will be gone. So even if you really kill the adulterer, it won't actually be good.
Therefore, in many ancient literary works, after the cheating adulterer was discovered, he would rather take the risk to kill his husband than be found out, or lynched.
And the same is true for cheating women, in order not to be discovered, they will help the adulterer to hide the cheating together, and even help them get rid of their husbands together, so as to achieve the purpose of hiding from the world.
For example, Pan Jinlian poisoned Wu Dalang, the deep-seated reason behind this is that the price of cheating is too high, and they would rather kill Wu Dalang first than have their derailment stabbed out.
Therefore, the ancients often said, "gambling is close to theft, rape is close to killing", because in the context of that era, once there is adultery, either the husband is killed, or the cheating man and woman are lynched, anyway, no one will get any benefit.