Chapter 192: The Wife and Concubine System
When he walked into the classroom, Lou Shuguang saw Zheng Han sitting next to Cao Yue at a glance, and couldn't help but be a little surprised.
He knew Zheng Han.
Zheng Han's mother Wu Lanjuan is the vice president of the Academy, and Lou Shuguang is one of the most famous teachers in the Academy.
Once, as the most famous talented woman in Chinese, Zheng Han also followed them to Yenching University for exchanges, so Lou Shuguang was also familiar with Zheng Han. It's just that in the past few years, Zheng Han has not come to audit his class once.
After all, it is a different major, and in general, women are not very interested in history.
Zheng Han is one of the most famous school flowers of Jiangsu and Zhejiang University, and he is very talented, and it is not an exaggeration to describe it as both talented and beautiful. Such a woman would be liked by any man when he sees it. Even the uncle-level married man Lou Shuguang also likes to see such a beautiful woman appear in front of him. The big beauties of the people came all the way to listen to his class, and a feeling of pride suddenly came to my heart.
As a result, his lecture became high-pitched, and the lecture was more exciting than usual.
However, what the students were most interested in was the recess discussion in which he allowed everyone to express their opinions freely, and Lou Shuguang would come up with a question to discuss with everyone in each song. The content of the textbook, he talked about it relatively simply.
After the main lecture, Lou Shuguang is also going to take a historical issue that is related to the content of the main class for everyone to discuss, as usual.
In the expectation of the students, Lou Shuguang wrote a few square characters on the blackboard about the ancient wife and concubine system.
After seeing the contents on the blackboard, the audience was in an uproar.
This is a topic that can touch the heartstrings of the young boys and girls here, and it is also a relatively sensitive topic.
Three wives and four concubines once became synonymous with the boundless happiness of men in ancient times, and today in history class, this topic is openly discussed, and the men and women who are secreting hormones are of course very excited.
Zheng Han, who had been listening attentively, showed a meaningful smile to Cao Yue.
Cao Yue could understand the meaning in her eyes, that is, to see how he expressed his opinions for a while, and whether he had any opinions that were different from ordinary people.
Cao Yue just smiled helplessly, this is a very sensitive topic, and he really doesn't know what to say.
He knew that most people would condemn the system, and if others followed suit, it would be better not to stand up and express their opinions. But if he expressed a different opinion, Zheng Han misunderstood. If Zheng Han wasn't there, it wouldn't matter what he said.
Zheng Han came to listen on purpose today, if he didn't stand up and express some opinions, it would be too unreasonable, so he had a bit of a headache.
He could only use his brain quickly and try to come up with something different.
"The wife and concubine system in ancient Chinese society can be called a wonder of the world. From the perspective of modern people, the wife and concubine system in ancient Chinese society is an extremely inhumane and cruel system. It forcibly divides the blood-related family into two groups, the oppressed and the oppressed, and brings the class into the family, into the pillow, and into the family affection. ”
Lou Shuguang stroked the podium and talked eloquently: "In the family, although the concubine bears the obligation to have children, she can't enjoy the treatment of a wife. The reason is very simple, that is, the family background of the woman who is the wife is higher than that of the concubine, and the concubine generally comes from a lowly family, and even the gifts offered by the defeated party have a completely different status. ”
"The property given to the woman's family when marrying a wife is called a dowry, and the property given to the woman's family when taking a concubine is called the capital for buying a concubine. A concubine is not qualified to be a wife, and a man who has a concubine but no wife is still unmarried. When the wife dies, even if the husband is full of concubines, he is still a widower without a wife, and he has to find another good family to marry a wife. ”
Fortunately, now that the bad habit of marriage with three wives and four concubines has disappeared, the majority of female compatriots no longer need to suffer from the scourge of this system. Speaking of this, Lou Shuguang paused and then said: "However, as a marriage system that has existed for thousands of years, it has its own reason for existence, and it is still necessary for our descendants to discuss it." Today, we will take this topic as the center of discussion, and everyone can freely talk about the pros and cons of this system. ”
Li Xiaoyu, a member of the study committee, was a feminist and was the first to stand up and express her opinion.
In a tone of deep disgust, she denounced the marriage system in ancient China.
"Concubines are cheap, concubines are bought and sold, concubines are just for men to vent their **, they are also sleeping with their husbands and giving birth to children for their husbands, but the identity of concubines is nothing more than bought items. In addition, ancient China was still an absolute class society and a patriarchal society, and the marriage of children was decided by their parents. The runner is a concubine, and her parents are cheap, good and lowly and unmarried. That is to say, if a young man and a woman are prevented from falling in love freely and elope, the woman is not qualified to be a wife, and both families only consider her to be a concubine. Just imagine, a good woman from a good family, just because she eloped with her beloved, she lost her qualification to be a wife, and she served her in-laws and husband for five or six years, but she couldn't get the approval of the man's family. How cruel is this?"
Not only that, but the woman who had become a concubine was not qualified to participate in the family sacrifice, and the son she gave birth to was not the preferred heir of her husband's family. It is conceivable that the ancient Chinese wife and concubine system insulted and ravaged not only these women who mistook their lives, but also her husband and her son, who loved her and had no autonomy, were discriminated against and suffered under this system. A man can only sleep with a wife approved by his parents, and watch his beloved woman become a fertility tool for his wife. ”
Speaking, she also concluded her statement: "The wife and concubine system reflects the cruelty and injustice of the ancient Chinese marriage system, which has all kinds of harm but no benefit, and should have been swept into the garbage heap of history a long time ago." ”
Li Xiaoyu's words attracted many people's applause, and the loudest one was still Wu Weiliang.
Then many people stood up to express their opinions, and to Cao Yue's surprise, no matter who they were, they all denounced the abhorrence of the wife and concubine system, and no one even used a sentence to explain its good side.
Cao Yue knew that in fact, many men recognized or longed for three wives and four concubines from the bottom of their hearts, but they didn't dare to say it, because nearly half of the people sitting here were girls, and Zheng Han, a super beautiful school flower, was here.
Sitting on the beauty of the world, this is the idea that most men have, just like women want to have a lot of handsome guys, but no one dares to say it openly. If you dare to speak out, you will definitely be ridiculed, belittled, and attacked by others, and in order not to be looked down upon and scolded by others, denouncing this system has become a natural choice for everyone.
Just when Cao Yue was thinking about what kind of opinion he wanted to express, Lou Shuguang named him. "Cao Yue, I don't know if you have any different views on this topic"
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