Chapter 158: Different Destinies Trajectory
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The gist of the poem is that yesterday I went into the city to sell silk, and when I came back, my hand towel was soaked with tears. Why is it so sad? I saw the rich men dressed in silk and satin, and none of them were silkworm keepers. mentioned that the peasants of the Song Dynasty could afford to raise silkworms but could not afford to wear silk clothes, let alone go shopping, it was naturally not in the mood, cough cough, of course, this is not a reason why women do not go shopping, the main reason is that the ancient feudal ideology is too restrictive for women.
In our real lives, we may have seen the custom of binding the feet of the older generation of the elderly, why is that?
Do you know why ancient women bound their feet?
Why?
In order to prevent them from shopping.
Why in ancient times unmarried women could not go out
Generally speaking, it is not allowed to go out, whether you are married or not, you must stay at home, either husband and children, or embroidery and flowers, generally speaking, do not go out, even if you want to go out, either to worship the Buddha, or to go to a relative's house to walk around, but you must bring a light yarn, used to cover the face, the lady of the big family goes out is to make a sedan chair, there is a girl to follow, the guard protects to go out, the average person's home, the girl is rarely out.
Generally speaking, most of the girls walking on the street are not women from good families, or they are girls and other women, and their status is low.
But they can sometimes go out, just on the day of the Qixi Festival every year, the lady takes the girl and goes out to see the lanterns, and some girls born in ordinary families will also be allowed to go out today.
Ancient China paid attention to etiquette, and the restraint on women was simply perverted, and Liu Yi had no way to do it, and the concept of internal and external differences was deeply rooted in the hearts of the people.
Men are engaged in politics, wars, service, farming, hunting, business, etc., while women are in charge of housework, silkworm weaving, giving birth to children, serving in-laws, etc. The upper class refers to presiding, participating in politics, and the military, and women are not allowed to get involved. Lower-class men plough and weave women. Living, activities, interactions, daily behavior, etc. are all based on this.
There is still a word in the boudoir, and an unmarried girl cannot be seen casually by a strange man. Miss Dahu stays at home and is pampered. Civilian women may often go out because of the pressure of life, but they try to avoid showing their heads. Although married women avoid it less, they will also be despised by society when they go out to socialize.
Men forcibly kidnap women with material dominance and confine women in a fixed environment, with the ultimate goal of ensuring women's purity, but in essence lead to self-kidnapping......
The next generation born and raised in this environment has also distorted human nature and lowered their IQ to some extent......
In ancient times, women stayed at home because of different concepts, thinking that women should not show their heads casually, and high-ranking and aristocratic women also hugged each other when they traveled, and there were not so many bustling streets......
However, in the Three Kingdoms era, there were still some women who dared to break through the feudal concept, which is admirable, which is all a later story, not to mention it for the time being.
Liu Yi doesn't understand what Cai Wenji thinks, according to what Liu Yi said, if you want to go out shopping, you can go out, what is broken, it is completely a constraint on women and imprisoning women's thoughts.
"Wen Ji, do you still want to go out", Liu Yi asked with a smile, as long as Cai Wenji is willing to go out, Liu Yi will take her out, as for what the people of Chengyang say when they see it, then it's free, Liu Yi doesn't care, young man, what's the matter if you are willful.
"Well, but you have to bring a veil", Cai Wenji thought about it and said, let's bring a veil, she is not used to showing up, mainly because she has been in this yard for too long, Cai Wenji also wants to go out for a walk, and it is extremely terrible for a woman's nature to be suppressed for too long.
The maid breathed a sigh of relief, it's okay to wear a veil, as for going out with Liu Yi, anyway, everyone in the world knows that Liu Yi is entrusted by Cai Yong to take care of his daughter, so it shouldn't cause any gossip, as long as her young lady is not so capricious, wearing a veil at least means that reason is still there, then it's not a big problem.
Cai Wenji took the light yarn and Liu Yi out to go shopping, and the maid followed behind to prevent anything from happening, although she had no choice.
Cai Wenji became very active along the way, probably because she hadn't come out for a long time, Liu Yi followed dangerously.
Looking at Cai Wenji's joyful figure, maybe the arrival of Liu Yi in this life is really a great luck for Cai Wenji, this poor woman has suffered a lot in the romance.
Married to Wei Zhongdao for the first time, her husband died less than a year ago. Historical records record that Wen Ji was forcibly taken to Chang'an by Dong Zhuo's subordinates, and after the Xiongnu invaded, Wen Ji was taken captive to marry King Zuo Xian of the Lou Xiongnu, and gave birth to two sons. Life outside the Saibei can be imagined, the desert in the north of the Saibei, the guest is in a foreign land, a weak woman, unspeakable.
At that time, after Cao Cao's defeat in the Battle of Chibi, he regrouped and regained his military prestige. In 216 A.D., he entered the king of Wei, and the Southern Xiongnu Shan Yu came to congratulate Cao Cao, after which the Southern Xiongnu had a good relationship with the Han Dynasty. Cao Cao hoped to bring his old friend Cai Yong's daughter Cai Wenji back to China. Therefore, Cao Cao sent an envoy to send a heavy gift to the Southern Xiongnu, and the Southern Xiongnu Zuoxian King was reluctant but had no choice but to send Wen Ji back. Wen Ji was very happy to be able to return to her homeland that she missed day and night, but gave birth to two more children and stayed in the Xiongnu. In such a contradictory mood, Wen Ji wrote the famous poem "Eighteen Beats of Hu Ji". In order to prevent Wen Ji from being alone, Cao Cao asked his subordinate Dong Ci, the commander of Tuntian, to marry her. But later, Dong Ci broke the law, Cao Cao arrested Dong Ci and was about to execute her, Wen Ji came out to intercede, and later wrote ancient books. History records that when Cai Wenji interceded for her husband Dong Ci, the weather was very cold, and Cao Cao saw that Cai Yan was wearing no shoes and his hair was scattered, so he gave Cai Wenji a headscarf, shoes and socks. Cai Wenji's father, Cai Yong, once had a collection of ancient books at home, Cao Cao asked Cai Wenji: "I heard that your family used to have a lot of ancient books, can you still remember them now?" Cai Wenji said: "At the beginning, my father left me more than 4,000 volumes of books, but because of the displacement of the war, very few have been preserved, and now I can only write down more than 400 articles." Cao Cao said, "I'll send ten people to accompany my wife to write it down, is it okay?" Cai Yan said: "Men and women don't kiss, give me paper and pen, and I will write to you alone." So Cai Yan wrote down the contents of the ancient books he had written down and sent them to Cao Cao without any mistakes.
Cai Wenji, as a famous and talented woman at that time, unfortunately was born at the wrong time, if there was no Liu Yi, the fate trajectory of this life is estimated to be a wandering desert, which is embarrassing, and now looking at Cai Wenji happily showing her innocence, Liu Yi suddenly felt that it was good to cross over for a moment.
However, Liu Yi has a little doubt, what is the situation of our Boss Cao to Cai Wenji, it stands to reason that Boss Cao studied under Cai Yong, and there are many opportunities to contact Cai Wenji, Cai Wenji is also first-class in appearance and talent, how can it not be in the eyes of Boss Cao.
This is not the end, at that time, Boss Cao regained his strength and was named the King of Wei, but he took Cai Wenji back, what does this mean, it may be in his master's affection, and he can also say the past, so what the hell are you marrying Cai Wenji to Dong Yan and harassing again, Liu Yi has a bold guess.
Could it be that a woman who is not a wife, Boss Cao ignores it???
"Ziang, do you see if these earrings look good", Cai Wenji turned her head and squinted her eyes and smiled, comparing the earrings to her ears and letting Liu Yi take a look.
Liu Yi put away his cranky brain and looked in the direction of Cai Wenji, at this time the sun was setting, a beautiful woman was smiling, and her pure white earrings were dotted with the snow-white skin, such a beautiful scenery should only be in the sky.
"Good-looking, very suitable for you", Liu Yi said dumbly, it is not an exaggeration to rely on clothes and horses to rely on saddles, these earrings are matched with Cai Wenji's snow-white skin, which makes Cai Wenji even more moving.
"Then you pay quickly", Cai Wenji smiled, then picked up the earrings and walked forward, leaving only Liu Yi with a confused face.