Bai Chunjie's consultation, Grandma Wang didn't say too much, just a few words, but these few sentences were enough to make Bai Chunjie enlightened.

"You're here to visit the old man? What do I have to see? But a piece of rotten wood, a pile of dead ashes, a living dead unburied. Child, grandma has only one sentence to tell you, a woman keeps the festival, it is really the most painful thing, and it is better to live this kind of life than to die. You are young, where can you not find a man, why do you want to be a widow for your father, and live to suffer? ”

As the saying goes, people are dying and their words are good, Bai Chunjie can't help but believe the warning of Grandma Wang, who is about to die, what is the point of telling lies with a conscience? Three-year-olds also know which is better between a widow and a woman with a husband.

Bai Chunjie choked and took Wu Wang's hand, and said solemnly: "Grandma Wang, thank you." ”

Wu Wangshi stroked her satin-like hair and sighed: "People don't kill the heavens and the earth for themselves, don't be harmed by the family rules of the ancestors, and the eyes of others." Remarrying does not violate the king's law, no one is qualified to make irresponsible remarks, even if your father and mother, the daughter who goes out is like water spilled out. ”

"Well, I remember." Bai Chunjie knew what to do.

Before the Song Dynasty in history, remarriage was basically a matter of course, and there were many princesses in the Tang Dynasty who had been married three times, but there was no law to follow in this regard. Since the Song Dynasty, the Song Dynasty has conditionally allowed women to "leave their husbands", such as if the husband goes out for three years and does not return, the wife can leave. It can be seen that the ancient Chinese government never forced women to keep their chastity, but more because of the social atmosphere of comparison and the insistence of defenders like Lu Hanchen in their own opinions.

It is said that the first chastity archway is Qin Shi Huang for the widow Qing to build the "Huaiqing Terrace", because Qin Shi Huang's adulterous mother brought him a lifelong psychological shadow, Qin Shi Huang almost regarded all women as unclean things, only the strong woman who ran Dansha chairman widow Qing, regarded as a virgin.

Until the Song Dynasty, the society's view of chastity was generally very tolerant, or I don't know if the historians after the Qing Dynasty would scold the dirty Tang Dynasty! Since the Wei and Jin dynasties and the late Tang Dynasty. "There is wine today and drunk today" and the atmosphere of coveting the love of men and women has reached its peak, such as a large number of concubines and prostitutes, exchanging concubines to indulge on the spot, and ordinary people are not ashamed of their daughters as concubines and singers.

Affected by this, women also faded from their reserve, and went out casually and talked to men casually, which was very common before the Song Dynasty. For example, the noble lady casually entertained the literati to hold a salon, and the poetry of the talented girl Cao Xiyun always had some provocative and sensational artistic conception. Li Qingzhao drank without scruples when she was a girl and traveled everywhere. Just like in the previous chapter, when the whole society was full of desires, not only did the population decline due to the indulgence in pleasure, but the Taoists also became more and more distressed.

Thinking that in the Song Dynasty, there were strong neighbors in the north who oppressed the environment and shame raging, and there was the abandonment and forgetfulness of the concept of moral chastity inside, Cheng Yi, the founder of Cheng Zhu Lixue, in view of the reality, felt that "starvation is a small matter, and a loss of temperament is a big thing", which is not only a criticism of women. It was also a critique of the weakness of the Song Dynasty, but throughout the Song Dynasty, this conservative concept actually did not have much impact.

Sima Guang advocated that women could study, and Fan Zhongyan's revised "Yizhuang Tian Covenant" stipulated that remarriage widows would be given expenses. Fan Zhongyan's son died early. The daughter-in-law was widowed, and later his student Wang Tao died of his wife, so Fan Zhongyan married his daughter-in-law to Wang Tao. Fan Zhongyan's mother also remarried Zhu when he was a child because of the family's poverty.

Even Cheng Yi himself didn't do what he said, after his niece lost her husband. He was worried that his sister was overly sad, so he took his niece to his home, and then made the decision to marry his niece to someone else.

Until the end of the Song Dynasty. Cheng Zhu's thought did not really penetrate into the hearts of the people, nor did it occupy a dominant position, and it was only one of the six philosophies of science at that time.

The Yuan Dynasty can be said to be the catalyst for Cheng Zhu's thought, in the face of the Mongols who wantonly killed the Han people and robbed the Han women, how could the idea of "starvation to death is a small matter, and loss of festival is a big matter" not be admired by the Han people? Zhu Yuanzhang's funeral system and conservative concepts also played a great role, and after entering the Manchu era, the meaning of chastity has become very narrow, as if it has become a religion.

Bai Chunjie was not born in the middle of the Ming Dynasty, and she didn't agree with the festival at all, so after listening to Grandma Wang's words, she returned to the Lu family, smiling and refreshed. Lu Hanchen thought that Wu Wang's discipline had played a role, and in return, he hurried to set up Grandma Wang's chastity archway.

Although Xu Hao promised to help, but the imperial court canonization is not a simple matter, there are too many similar requests in various places every year, and the Ministry of Rites will not treat Xu Hao with special treatment because of his identity, at most the success rate can reach 100%, of course, if something goes wrong, for example, the martyr is actually a slut, and the biggest loss is also Xu Hao, the recommender.

Usually the book is written that year, and it will not be approved until the next year at the earliest, and Lu Hanchen can't wait, since it is an ironclad matter, urge the craftsmen to complete it as much as possible, so that two grand unveiling ceremonies can be held in a row.

It is engraved with "the archway of chastity of Wu Wang's family to be sealed, and after the imperial court has made a will, the reserved position will immediately add a few more words such as Qinci, such a big ceremony in Lujia Village, which is extraordinary."

The people in the village have a lot of discussions about this, although the first Wang Grandma is a lot older, after all, there were bad rumors when she was young, and that's it, the village respects the Great Song Dynasty, and now the unprecedented request for the seal of this dynasty, will the ancestors be dissatisfied?

At this time, there was a little accident in the project, and a top eaves stone suddenly cracked and fell, and the entire Lujia Village was boiling.

According to traditional customs, the archway of chastity cannot be repaired and collapsed, and even a stone is not allowed. Otherwise, it is a condemnation from heaven that proves that this woman is not chaste, so she cannot set up a chastity archway.

There was a similar accident, ancient China is different from the monotheistic religious countries, God's will can not be used as legal evidence, it must be proved by mortals whether the woman is chaste or not, otherwise it will not be able to convince the public, but this kind of thing is very difficult to prove, as the saying goes, catch the adulterer, who will cheat on the joints? Obviously an impossible task.

But the matter has come to this, God is angry, the Chinese are a nation that worships ghosts and gods, what should I do? I don't know which smart people came up with a solution.

The first way, the widow who erected the archway of chastity, as long as something happened in the process of building her archway, then immediately committed suicide herself, in order to show her heart, to prove that she is indeed a chaste woman, and everything will be left if she dies! No matter how many things have been done in life, it is good to be able to die and be martyred, so that the archway will definitely stand up.

After the death of such a woman, most of the arches of chastity will be erected, and the descendants of her family will be glorious, although the deceased can no longer enjoy this glory.

There is another solution during this period, after an accident, if someone believes, or the widow who keeps the festival herself admits that she did have unruly behavior or evil thoughts when she was young, and had dealings with a certain man or had a desire for him, but then after years of observance tests, completely corrected the mistake, it is also possible to set up a chastity archway, after all, only a saint will not make mistakes, who has not been young?

The method is very humane, by the widow herself to tie the paper person to represent the good man, if there are several good men, then tie a few men, the appearance should be as much as possible like the lover, and then sent to the archway to be burned, indicating that the request for God's forgiveness, and the gods are so merciful will forgive, so what else can mortals say? As long as there will be no more accidents at the torii.

Later, this was a very good way to disappear in the first year, and when someone raised doubts, or if there was an accident at the torii, the widow had to commit suicide immediately to clear her mind, and it became almost the only option.

Lu Hanchen was frightened, he was afraid that exposing the past would discredit him and make him restless day and night. But Grandma Wang was calm, and carefully made a paper figure according to the appearance of Lu Hanchen, the young son, and put it there for a long time.

Resolutely carried the paper man towards the archway of chastity, many good young people followed, but the older generation avoided her, kept chanting Amitabha, begging for God's forgiveness.

Grandma Wang was not ashamed, and walked indifferently without any expression. When he arrived at the construction site, he put down the paper man, silently wiped a match, and set the paper man on fire, and in an instant, it was reduced to ashes.

People gathered around and pointed, and someone asked, "This young master is really handsome." ”

"How many times have you slept with this wild husband?"

"When?"

"Who is he?"

Grandma Wang did not answer in the face of people's questions, she only had the obligation to burn the paper, but she did not have the obligation to answer who the paper man was. I didn't say a word from beginning to end, didn't even look at the majestic and glorious archway, and walked back slowly.

The people in the village have been laughing at her, but they don't know that she has mocked life itself to the fullest, and she feels very happy.

Lu Hanchen, who was hiding in the shadows, saw her burn the paper figure representing herself in full view of everyone, and felt relieved that she didn't expose herself, but when he thought about it, he felt afraid, which became a thorn in his heart.

I vaguely feel that someone behind me pointed out that the paper man is a bit like Mrs. Lu, which makes Lu Hanchen like a thorn in his back, in fact, how can anyone dare to come out to prove it? Who in the younger generation will know what he looked like back then, and who in the older generation will do this immoral thing that was killed by God? It's purely that there is nothing in the world, and mediocrity disturbs itself.

After this incident, Lu Hanchen intensified his efforts even more, and made up his mind to launch a resolute attack against the evil deeds of apostasy that hurt nature and reason, and demanded that people strictly abide by the rules of "great defense for men and women" and "men and women should not kiss each other", and women should strictly abide by the ancient precepts such as "walking without skirts, and not laughing with teeth".

For a while, he was particularly unaccustomed to seeing men and women together, especially when watching wild stage dramas or temple fairs, giggling, men and women took the opportunity to squeeze around, hugging and hugging, and hated it. For girls and widowed women who are not married, who dares to sneak around with men, it is a matter that is not allowed by the rules of the family, and it must be severely punished.

As a result, Bai Chunjie unfortunately bumped into the muzzle of the gun. (To be continued......)