The course of sex: from ancient times to Sui and Tang Dynasties

Successive dynasties did not advocate concubinage among civilians. Concubine is actually a kind of welfare of princes and nobles. Some foreign journalists once questioned Gu Hongming, who claimed to be an old man in the Qing Dynasty, and thought that China's concubines system was the cradle of civilization. Gu Hongming leisurely pointed to the teapot and teacups in the tea tray in front of him and smiled: "A teapot can match four teacups. Have you ever heard of a teacup with four teapots? "

This is a very common thing. Gu Hongming stayed abroad, married a concubine and studied China's classics. But his statement is actually a fallacy, and he can only deceive foreign devils. In fact, polygamy has no market since the Western Zhou Dynasty. He thinks that the system of concubinage in China is polygamous, which is completely wrong. Sexologist Pan Guangdan once said, "Monogamy also has a natural place in China. However, due to the system of recognizing concubines at the same time, this justified imprisoning power is not as great as that in the West. ..... Marriage in China is always based on monogamy; Monogamy is a routine, and concubinage is accidental. " What is my concubine's status? Let's take a look at Han Feizi's jokes first. Although he is a serious man and stutters, telling jokes occasionally is quite lethal. Wei people have couples praying, and their wish is: I get a hundred bundles of cloth for no reason. Her husband said: Why not? Yes, I will buy a concubine. This story is about a couple in Weiguo. My wife prayed for god's blessing and made a wish: let me get a hundred bundles of cloth out of thin air. Her husband was very dissatisfied and complained that it was too little. The wife said, buy a concubine if you have more.

The story is clearly about a civilian couple, but they actually discuss buying a concubine, indicating that the price of concubines in the market is not high, which may be higher than 100 bundle of cloth, but it is not much higher. In the story of "Qi people have concubines" in Mencius, that "Qi people" is a beggar, but he also has concubines. A problem caused by the low price of concubines will soon attract the attention of politicians. The theory of salt and iron in the Western Han Dynasty recorded a view of virtue-"The ancient couple were good, and a man and a woman had a family. There is also a concubine, a doctor and a bannerman with a nephew and nine daughters. There are hundreds of governors and ten doctors today. The winner is the royal family, and the rich are full of rooms. When losing a woman or a grievance, a man or a horse. " In other words, monogamy was popular in ancient times, and common people did not advocate concubinage except princes and nobles. But in the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, the ceremony broke down. In the Western Han Dynasty, no one took this seriously. Now, it has been promoted to the political height of "women are disappointed and men die without horses". In fact, all dynasties did not advocate concubinage among civilians, and there were restrictions, as can be seen from Ming Dian? There is circumstantial evidence in Law 4: "People over forty have no children to listen to." In other words, people need to meet two conditions for concubinage: first, they are over 40 years old; Second, there are no children. Therefore, * * * has restrictions on concubinage among civilians. Accurately speaking, concubinage is actually a kind of reward and welfare for princes and nobles, so "White Tiger Yi Tong?" "Marriage" more clearly pointed out: "Who is a wife and two concubines? Respect the virtuous and inherit. What if you don't have a nephew (meaning you can't have a nephew like a son of heaven or a vassal)? Northern ministers are cheap, not relatives or friends. ..... a wife and a concubine? Dr. Xia Qing is also very polite. However, since "the rich make full use of space", the people are of course unconvinced. It should be said that the Yellow Scarf Uprising at the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty was partly due to the common people fighting for their sexual rights, which was also one of the reasons for many peasant uprisings in the history of China. If you don't believe me, just look at its theoretical guide book "Taiping Jing", which specifically mentions the "one man and two women law": the emperor settled his mind in heaven and became a pure law heaven. So a man needs two women to be like Yin and Yang. The positive number is odd and the negative number is even. What comes is the spirit of harmony. ..... so make a man and two women also. One man and two women, this is not monogamy, but polygamy, and it has risen to the height of yin and yang politics. The book also mentioned that the king could get more women, one for each state, to meet the number of Kyushu.