Why were women in the past never “fearful”?

Appointed superiors

If a girl over the age of 15 has no one to care about, ask questions, a man is too poor, and his family can’t arrange a marriage, local officials have the right to designate a marriage for them.

At this time, taking advantage of their positions, local mandarins could appoint people’s marriages, absolutely not allowing the locality to have a husband or wife.

Forcing girls to get married

If the young women reach the age of marriage (about 15 years old), if they have not yet married, they will have to pay a fine. Typically, during the Han Dynasty, when there was no target at the age of 15, the girls would be put on a watch list. Until the age of 30, if they still hadn’t married, they would have to pay taxes 5 times more than ordinary people. During the Northern and Southern Dynasties, a 15-year-old girl was not married, and her family members were still imprisoned because they could not manage the house.

Monogamy policy

Originally thought that ancient people had conservative ideas, women were bound by many limits and extremely strict regulations. However, unexpectedly, there are still policies that are particularly open about getting married to maintain and increase the population. According to records, in places where there was a higher ratio of males to females, ancient emperors allowed one wife to have more than one husband.

This sounds immoral, but it actually happened. Of course, nothing is impossible.

Widow remarried

In the past, wars were constant, men had to be far from home to fight, and died in countless places far away from school. Therefore, in many localities, there is a gender imbalance, more women than men. To overcome this, the government encourages and supports many widowed women to remarry and take second husbands.

Limit the number of rich people marrying concubines

In ancient times, the concept that men despised women was very popular, nobles with a lot of money often got married and loaded up a lot of cards, making it impossible for men with normal conditions to marry.

Realizing this situation, the government issued policies, laws, clear notes, regulations on the number of concubines per person, restricting the rich from marrying too many concubines.

Marrying

The marriage policy is mainly prevalent among ethnic minorities. According to this policy, when the father dies, the son can inherit the father’s concubine (except for the biological mother).

In history, the most famous marriage custom is probably to mention Vuong Chieu Quan, one of the four great beauties of China. Vuong Chieu Quan was originally married to Thien Vu Ho Han Ta. After Ho Han Ta died, Vuong Chieu Quan continued to be married to the eldest son of Ho Han Ta, Phuc Chu Luy Nhuoc De. Fortunately, this time Vuong Chieu Quan’s remarriage was not resentful, she was still very happy.

Organize a matchmaking conference, meet

In order to create conditions for young men and women who reached adulthood and still couldn’t find their target, the ancients held meetings called “Congress for Mutual Friendship”. In this congress, boys and girls will dress neatly and beautifully, freely exchange and exchange, in order to find the right person to marry.

If you are of an adult age, and you have not had a valid reason, you will not be able to attend the meeting, you will be punished according to regulations.

It can be seen that, with policies on marriage and family that are extremely rich and diverse, it was really difficult for men and women in the past to want to be alone. If they are determined to live a comfortable celibate life, they can only go to the temple, shave their hair, and become a monk.