Chapter Twenty-Six: Living Together Is Not Family

Although Jian Chen said it quite imposingly, he also knew in his heart that it was not so simple to achieve the status of a tribal alliance leader.

Because of the limited scope of activity of each tribe, each tribe now has no farming and primitive agriculture, and there are few opportunities for communication and naturally few contradictions. Except for mating, hunting tribes that don't get along with each other don't need any tribal alliances.

Relatives connected by blood, once the conflict intensifies and there are dead people, it is not something that can be solved by lip service. The deceased may be an immediate family member such as an aunt or aunt of the clan, rather than a passer-by who feels very distant as the later concept of the state.

He asked his people to tell the other two about their lives, and there was pride in his tone.

The people of the other two tribes were stunned. What houses, fishing nets, pottery, these things they have never heard of, are beyond their imagination.

After listening to these stories, Shi and Huaihua were churning with all kinds of thoughts in their hearts, and followed the old grandmother to ask a few words, and the old grandmother smiled and told them that these things were all guided by the ancestors, and they could ask him if they had any questions.

Before coming, Jian Chen had already discussed with the clansmen that finished products such as pottery could be given to them, but he could not tell them how to make pottery for the time being. Naturally, this proposal was approved in its entirety, and of course the old grandmother had to abide by it.

So the two of them came to Chen Jian's side, and the two of them already believed in the life described by the clansmen, because they could feel that the life of the Chen Jian clan was indeed different from theirs, especially the appearance of some words that they could not understand, such as one, two, three, four. I don't understand what it means, but I think it's amazing.

After listening to the questions of the two, Jian Chen smiled and said, "Are you willing to live with us?" ”

"What does it mean to live together? Merge with your clan? ”

The stone is a little vigilant, survival is the first need, the continuation of the bloodline group is the second need, and only when the first need cannot be guaranteed, will the second need be abandoned.

Now her tribe is not able to survive, although the life described by Chen Jian is very beautiful, but the habits accumulated over thousands of years make it difficult for her to accept. Together, what are your own people? Will their mothers, grandmothers and ancestors be recognized by them?

Jian Chen called Song and asked him to talk about the life of the two as one, which was a model of living and free.

After listening to this, Huaihua discussed it with the clansmen, and Shi still had some doubts in his heart.

"If you don't want to be one with us, you can live together."

Stone shook his head and said, "How can that be done?" How should the bloodline be counted? It's the family that lives together. ”

Living together was a very serious matter for the primitive people, and it was their way of distinguishing themselves from each other. Those who live together must be clansmen, and those who do not live together are not clansmen, and I have not heard of two different clans living together.

Jian Chen thought for a moment and said, "We can add the surname before the first name." ”

"Last name?" Stone didn't understand the relationship between this unheard word and his own bloodline.

"Yes, surname. Our people can have a surname, and your people can have a surname. For example, the name of your ancestors can be used as a surname and added in front of your name, so that no matter how long it takes, the name of your ancestors will always be remembered by future generations, and the bloodline can naturally continue. Even if you live together, you can distinguish each other. If you all have a stone character on your name, then you will know that you are from your clan when you look at your name. ”

The stone still didn't understand the meaning inside, and looked at Jian Chen with a frown.

"With a surname, even if we live together, we are not afraid of messing up the bloodline. The clan is the surname, and the surname is the clan. As long as there is no intercourse between the same surname, strictly abide by this rule, and your blood will still be pure. Your people can mingle and live with our people, but your children will still be yours, and bringing the names of your ancestors as your surname is a mark that will never be erased. ”

After hearing this, the stone understood that this was indeed a good way, as long as the child was guaranteed to crawl out of the mother's body, as long as the mother thought that he was a member of a certain tribe, then the child would naturally think so.

When choosing a name, you can add a surname to let your child know that it is not necessarily a family member who lives together, but someone with the same surname must be a family member, and it is indeed a good idea to have the same mother or grandmother.

Jian Chen naturally has his own ideas, in addition to relying on blood ties, the tribe also needs fresh bloodlines to replenish it. The first generation may still have a strong sense of community, but what about the next generation?

And only the tribes that live together can evolve from group marriage to couple marriage, and finally to male and female marriage. Being close to each other, and grinding between ears and temples, will also produce things like love, not just for reproduction.

Now the life of the clan can be guaranteed, the estrus period is no longer only in the spring, the same clan strictly abides by primitive morality, and no one is allowed to have a relationship, but no one can guarantee what will happen in the future.

Sister control has always been able to defeat morality and even law. Mo said that now, it is the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period where the rules have been formed, Qi Xianggong not only snapped with his sister, but also killed his brother-in-law Lu Huangong.

In addition, it takes a process to move from group marriage to double marriage to single marriage, and the life of several tribes will inevitably lead to dual marriage. I like you, I like her, I like her, I like her, I want to do sports with her...... Then you can maintain a relationship with you, her, and her, as long as the other party agrees.

It's the same with women, each of whom has four or five fixed mating partners.

Nowadays, survival does not depend on the family, but on the tribe, and both men and women have to work, so they are naturally equal in mating relations.

Whether it is papable or not depends only on whether it is pleasing to the eye, because there is no private property, and naturally it cannot be measured by whether there is money or not.

When the family unit can survive alone, wait until jealousy, single-mindedness and other emotions appear, and wait until they are beaten several times because of the mating partner, and a few people die, there will naturally be a single marriage - in the previous life, Huaxia was also a single marriage, and the concubine was not a wife, but a tool used by the patriarchal society to continue the bloodline, and in law it was not an equal person, but a tool. A concubine gives birth to a son, and the son is the master, and the mother is the servant.

Nowadays, for a long time, it was a matriarchal society, not because women were more capable than men, but because women could determine whether the child was biological or not, but men could not be sure whether the child was their own or the king next door.

When several tribes live together, they can be linked together through marriage, and each other is the mother-in-law and the eldest brother, which is the easiest way to unite the new group.

He looked at the stone and the acacia flower with burning eyes, hoping to get an affirmative answer from the other party. Today, the population is no longer a burden within three or four hundred, and even fishing can support the emergence of primitive agriculture.

Shi consulted with his people and asked, "Then can we live the same life as you?" ”

"Yes, as long as you are willing to learn, we can teach, but we won't give you anything."

She glanced at Song, who had just finished telling the story, pondered for a moment and asked, "You mean, if you become one with you and become the same clan, with the same surname, you can live in your house and use your clay pot like you?" But if you want to have your own surname and clan, you have to start from scratch, yours is yours, ours is ours? ”

"Of course. You guys can think about it. ”

Jian Chen did not hesitate at all, this is a must.

With different ideas, Shi and Huaihua discussed it with their clansmen.

There is no pressure for the Stone Tribes to survive, so reproduction and maintaining the population is the greatest need. The clansmen discussed it and felt that Jian Chen's proposal was very good, if it was really like what they said, you can catch a lot of fish without a stone spear, and you can use clay pots and bowls, why not try it?

If not, you can go back to the place where the clan lives and start over, and there is nothing to lose.

So after some discussion, the clansmen all agreed to have their own surnames and live together with Chen Jian's clan as a separate clan.

The surname, after some discussion, his own people lived on a mountain full of stones, and many of them had stones in their names, and finally decided to use stone as the surname of the tribe and put it in front of the name.

Unlike them, the acacia tribe faces the problem of survival. A while ago, when her mother and some people went to collect, they stepped on a snake's nest, and more than a dozen people were bitten to death by poisonous snakes.

More than a dozen people are the women in the tribe who know best which plants can eat which poisonous, and many experiences have not had time to be handed down, and many animals in the places where their people live have moved away, and the pressure of survival is becoming more and more serious.

Whether it's the clay pots and bowls that are visible to the eye, the delicious fluffy food that doesn't need to be chewed; Or those imaginable houses and fishing nets, all of which make the tribe full of expectations.

Besides, there is also the model of Song, this person called Jian is a good talker, and the life of the clan is better, why not?

Now the clansmen, women, and children are no more than a few dozen people, skinny, and the women are full of fear of the grass after a dozen of them were bitten to death by snakes, and the things they collect every day are getting less and less.

"Then let's join their tribe, and we can use clay pots and bowls immediately, and we can eat fish every day."

There was no objection to this opinion, and the imminent preconception of a woman made it even more difficult to survive while caring for the child.

After Chen Jian returned to discuss with the clansmen, what the clansmen thought was: There can be more people to build houses, which is of course a good thing.

The people of the two tribes got together, and with the precedent of the last time Song joined the tribe, this time the formalism was more perfect.

The old grandmother and Huaihua first cut their fingers together, and the rest of the people dripped the blood into the jar in turn, drank it in turn, and swore to the heavens, and from now on they would be connected by blood, and men and women of the same surname and clan would not marry.

Huaihua called her grandmother her mother, because her mother and grandmother were of the same generation, and Chen Jian was considered to have a lot of aunts and uncles.

At the creek, the people helped the new tribe comb their hair and tie it up in a bun. The people of the Stone Tribe also learned a lot, and they were full of curiosity about the thing called soap in the hands of the Chen Jian people.

The two clans combed their hair, rested refreshed for a while, and became familiar with it.

Soon men and women held hands with each other and went to the woods, and the raccoon cats and gray squirrels that had raced before, and the wolf skins that drew bows and arrows, all became fragrant and sweet.

However, there are also many women who come to Jian Chen, either to show off their strong muscles, or to learn to dance like a grouse courtship to prove that their bodies are very soft.

At this time, aesthetics are bound to survival, a strong woman who is not easy to give birth is beautiful, Chen Jian looked at a woman in front of him who was telling how many children she had to prove that she was good at giving birth, and politely refused.

Going down to the grove in full view, he really didn't have such a big addiction, and he didn't give birth to his own, he was a tadpole provider.

"Let's wait until the private property of the family appears......"

He listened to the faint gasps and the howling beastly cries not far away, and smiled helplessly.