Sun Quan's daughter's marriage Why she can marry three husbands
There is a misconception about ancient history that women were severely restricted and oppressed in ancient times. In the Song and Ming dynasties, the restraint and oppression of women were greatly strengthened after the Song Dynasty, and before the Song Dynasty, the social atmosphere was generally relatively enlightened, and it was not uncommon for women to remarry, so it was normal for Sun Quan's daughters to marry three husbands in a row, in fact, two of his four daughters remarried.
Two of Sun Quan's four daughters have remarried.
Sun Quan's four daughters can be analyzed: the eldest princess Sun Luban, the princess Liu, the princess Zhu, the princess Sun Luyu, and the princess Teng (who is also said to be an adopted daughter); Among them, Princess Sun Luban, Princess Zhu and Princess Sun Luyu once remarried.
The first is Princess Sun Luban, the daughter of Sun Quan and the Empress Foot Trainer, and the younger sister of Princess Zhusun Luyu. Sun Luban's first husband was Zhou Yu's eldest son, Zhou Zhen. When Sun Quan recruited Zhou Yu's daughter as the crown princess of the crown prince Sun Deng, Sun Luban married Zhou Yuan and appointed Zhou Yuan as the commander of the cavalry.
Sun Luban's second husband was Quan Cong, a general of Wei. After Sun Quan ascended the throne in the first year of Huanglong (229), he married Sun Luban to Quan Cong, who had just been promoted to the rank of general of Wei, so Sun Luban was also known as Princess Quan, and gave birth to him three sons, Quan Yi and a younger son, Quan Wu (Quan Cong had two sons before him).
Sun Luban actually has only two husbands, and Sun Yun is more like Sun Luban's male companion. After Sun Quan's death, the Wu regime was in turmoil, and Sun Luban became increasingly powerful during this period. During the reign of the little emperor, the powerful minister Sun Jun began"Princes"and later"Princess Luban", so Sun Jun was protected by Sun Luban, and although he did a lot of bad things, he never fell. However, with Sun Jun's early death, Concubine Quan's power in the court was greatly weakened, and she was exiled in a coup d'état organized by Sun Lin, and the Quan family also perished.
Princess Sun Luyu is Sun Quan's youngest daughter, also known as"Little princess"。In the first year of Huanglong (229), Sun Quan proclaimed himself emperor and married the thirteen or fourteen-year-old Sun Lucao to the left general Zhu Zhi, so he was called Concubine Zhu. They had a daughter who later became the wife of Sun Xiu, the king of Langya, and later the empress of Emperor Jing of Han.
In the thirteenth year of Jian'an (250), the talented Zhu Di was convicted of recommending the abolition of the crown prince, and Sun Hong, a scholar of the Chinese book, executed him. After Sun Quan's death, Sun Lucao remarried General Liu Zhi, the husband of Sun Quan's second daughter, Princess Liu Chang, who died young, and Sun Lucao became her stepmother. In the second year of Wufeng (255), Sun Luyu was framed by his sister Sun Luban for rebellion and assassinated.
Before the Song Dynasty, women often remarried.
After the Jingkang disaster, a large number of Han women, including the royal family of the Northern Song Dynasty, were abducted and tragically ravaged, and the issue of women's reputation and dignity became an important part of the development of science in the Southern Song Dynasty. In the Yuan Dynasty, the imperial court began to vigorously support the development of science for the sake of national sovereignty, and the destruction of the Han people by the Mongols led to the widespread support of the people for the idea of science, and science began to flourish.
Before the Song Dynasty, the whole society was relatively open, and women were not too constrained, but with the development of discernment, scholars were deepening the tradition"Female Teacher"At the same time, it is also refined into a constraint on women's etiquette. Therefore,"Female Teacher"began to appear"Don't go through the middle door, don't look at the hole, don't go over the wall"and other theories, starting from this period,"A woman is not a virtue"、"Don't go to the front door, don't go out of the wrong door"、"Hunger is a small thing, and a loss of temperance is a big thing"And so theories are also there"Female Teacher"in the formal formation.
This is why before the Song Dynasty, even in the Han and Tang royal families, women often remarried. For example, Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, Liu Che's biological mother, Wang Huan, was originally married to the aristocratic Jin King Sun and gave birth to a daughter, Jin Xiu, who later sent her to the imperial palace and was favored by Emperor Liu Qi of the Han Dynasty, and allied with Liu Zhuang, who was also the emperor, to obtain the crown prince for Liu Che.
During the Tang Dynasty, Tang Taizong Li Shimin even wrote "Du Command Limin to Change the Marriage Edict", saying"Men are 20 years old, women are 15 years old, and in addition to the discipline clothes under the widow system, it is advisable to be a matchmaker to take care of themselves", and even encouraged women to remarry. Even the royal princesses remarried, among the 210 princesses in the Tang Dynasty, 130 remarried, of which as many as 27 were remarried.
Remarriage was also common in the Song Dynasty, such as Liu E, the empress of Song Zhenzong, who first married the sheet metal smith Gong Meiren, and then remarried Song Zhenzong as a concubine when Song Zhenzong was still the emperor's son, and then became Song Zhenzong's favorite wife, and finally became the empress and empress dowager.
In any case, before the Ming Dynasty, when science was already widespread, women, especially aristocratic women, were not forbidden to remarry, and there were not many restrictions on remarriage during the Three Kingdoms period, so it is not surprising that Sun Quan's daughters remarried.