Chapter 123: The Arch of Chastity
The Pumi attach great importance to the education of children. The education of young children includes labor education, customary law education and moral education, which is simply at the forefront of the times! At present, most kindergartens in Bluestar also include these three aspects of children's education, but these are not as good as words and deeds.
In addition, regarding the marriage situation of the Pumi people, the anchor added a few more points. Marriage among the Pumi people is predominantly monogamous. In ancient times, the Pumi people chose their spouses by their parents, and the marriage of aunts and cousins was preferential. The age of marriage is relatively early, with women at 15 years and men at 18 years of age, or after the ceremony of marriage at the age of 13. This marriage age is relatively normal, and most of the marriageable ages of many ethnic groups in ancient times were also at this age. ”
"The two parties to the Pumi intermarriage have the custom of three generations of remarriage, which is called 'pro-three generations'. Isn't this a typical 'kiss and kiss' of the Han people, and the horror level is a little bit better than that of ancient Egypt brothers and sisters, and the marriage of sisters and brothers. According to the anchor's understanding, there have been ethnic minorities who have practiced intra-clan marriage because they pursued the purity of their bloodlines too much, resulting in many newborns in the clan having low intelligence, and some ethnic minorities have even disappeared into the long river of history. ”
Su Jiu sometimes thinks that people are really strange creatures, when breeding horses, people know that they can't mate too closely, why don't they know when they get to themselves?
"Okay, let's get over that. The Pumi people also have a very interesting custom that after a grand wedding, the bride begins to live in a 'husband's house'. In some places, Pumi brides often do not actually live in the man's house until they become pregnant. It can be seen that although Pumi women are engaged and married earlier, they often go to their husbands' homes very late, generally after the age of 25, and a few do not sit at home until they are 30 or 40 years old. During this period, the man marries the bride four times and holds four wedding ceremonies. According to the old custom, the girl had to go back to her parents' house at least three times after marriage. If you sit in your husband's house after one or two greetings, it will be considered a dishonorable thing. ”
Su Jiu thought that she had married Gu Ye neatly and neatly, and she always felt a loss in her heart, but when she thought of the three turns and three turns of the Pumi people, and the tossing back and forth, she felt that it was very good now: "Really toss!" However, many Bhumi people no longer follow this custom. In fact, the anchor feels that it is really unnecessary, you must know that the average life expectancy in ancient times was less than fifty or sixty years old, and as a result, she stayed in her mother's house until she was in her thirties, is this bride married or not? ”
"In some areas, the Pumi still retain the ancient custom of 'marriage snatching'. When the agreed date comes, the bride will be hidden in his house, and the woman's relatives and friends will prepare to take the man's relatives captive. When the relatives arrived, the woman flocked to the house and snatched the gifts she was carrying, and the man was not allowed to resist, and redeemed the gifts with tea afterwards. On the day of the wedding, the woman's parents still let her go out to work without notifying the bride in advance, and the man sent someone to forcibly take her home. Su Jiu is quite happy when he talks about the custom of snatching marriage, after all, it is not really "snatching" marriage, but a unique marriage custom, so it should be lively.
"In ancient times, the Pumi people could not divorce after marriage, and if the husband died, the woman was generally transferred to her husband and brother by the husband's family. If there is no object to be transferred, it will be transferred within the clan, and if there is no object in the clan, it will be decided by the in-laws, and the son-in-law will remarry outsiders after recruiting a son-in-law or leaving his children, and the bride price for remarriage will be accepted by the in-laws. This was not the case in Mongolia a long time ago, and there was even the custom of succession between husband and son, which was very common in the Yuan Dynasty. However, this bad habit no longer exists in country Z, which advocates freedom of marriage, and women can decide who to remarry after being widowed. ”
"When it comes to these bad habits, the anchor thinks of a product of the oppression of women in feudal society - the archway of chastity." The memorial arch of chastity is usually used in ancient times to commend some dead husbands or not remarrying for many years, or committing suicide and burial, and in line with the moral requirements of the times, and the women who spread special deeds, and built the archway building for them. ”
"The earliest chastity archway is actually mostly based on the word 'festival', and most of them are established in the name of the ancient scholars to praise the grace of mother's upbringing; At first, women were mostly voluntary widows after the death of their husbands, and sometimes there were people who died of martyrdom, but in the later period, the number of chastity arches in the family was more and more prosperous, and even officials took the number of chastity arches as proof of their political achievements, and there were countless women who were forced to be widowed and even starved to death during the period. ”
"The arch of chastity is actually a poor and vivid woman's history of blood and tears, in fact, not all emperors in the past dynasties have admired the arch of chastity, some emperors even encourage widows to remarry, but once they propose to abolish the 'arch of chastity', then there must be pedantic defenders to come out to stop, at this time even the emperor can not do as he likes."
Kangxi heard the anchor's words, and nodded secretly in his heart, indeed, as an emperor, sometimes he can't help himself. He has long had the intention to completely abolish the archway of chastity, but unfortunately those old stubborn can't make sense at all, even now there are still many local officials who hand over folds to themselves, wanting to fight for the local family for the archway of chastity.
Kangxi couldn't completely put an end to this situation, so he could only try to batch as little as possible, but he didn't expect that because of the less approval, the chastity archway was even more respected.
Looking at the anchor's non-stop diss-related officials, Kangxi couldn't wait to applaud, and directly blew up ten "bright fireworks" in the live broadcast room to show his support for the anchor.
Now Kangxi's attitude towards the arch of chastity is not too obvious, the people of the Qing Dynasty are quite surprised, their emperor does not approve of the existence of the arch of chastity, what is going on?
Su Jiu raised his eyebrows and glanced at the bright fireworks, thinking that Kangxi was worthy of being the emperor's calculation, and it would be much smoother to cancel the chastity archway this time, but Su Jiu didn't care that he was being used, after all, this was a good thing for the whole society.
Kangxi disgusted the arch of chastity for a long time, this opportunity was not easy to come by, he naturally struck while the iron was hot and a holy decree to abolish the arch of chastity. Of course, this move is still criticized, but there is an example of the old man Wang who does not believe in evil and prevents the "abolition of the bad habit of foot binding", and no minister dares to blatantly oppose it, after all, the anchor is very supportive of the emperor's decision.
"Of course, excellent women are still worthy of admiration, for example, Ba Widow Qing is the earliest female industrialist in China, she relied on her personal ingenuity, painstakingly managed the Dansha industry, and established a huge Dansha empire. It is worth mentioning that the Ba widow Qing was praised by the extraordinary courtesy of the 'Emperor Qin Shi Huang', and built a 'Nu Huai Qing Platform' for it, which can be said to be unprecedented and unprecedented. ”
Speaking of which, Su Jiu also had to sigh that a group of patriarchs were harmful, and the meaning of the "chastity archway", which was originally a good thing, was also distorted.