What does it mean to be a concubine of the rich instead of the wife of the poor?

China has been different since ancient times. Even ordinary people, only the first wife is the master. When a man marries a concubine, he is a servant in front of the woman. In fact, just like slaves, the hostess can beat and scold at will, sell her concubines and no one can complain. Therefore, good women in ancient times would rather marry poor people as wives than rich people as concubines.

The most famous little wife in the history of China is Mrs Qi. She is famous not because she is beautiful, but because after her husband Liu Bang died, she was turned into a prostitute by Liu Bang's first wife Lv Hou. What is a man? Is to cut off a person's hands and feet, gouge out a person's eyes, poison this person, strip her hair, and throw it naked into a clay pot. Besides, she was put into the toilet by Lv Hou, so you can imagine how miserable it is for such a beautiful woman to be made into a human being. It is obvious that this little wife is not easy to be. If you are spoiled by your husband, you will be jealous by your first wife, or you will die miserably.

Of course, not every first wife is as vicious as Lv Hou, but if a woman is a concubine, then her children, that is, concubines, have no right to inherit property. Moreover, because the children born to the youngest wife are everywhere lower than those born to the oldest wife. In ancient times, I was very concerned about the difference between family status and ordinary people. The illegitimate child born to the youngest wife has little chance of being treated well. Of course, there are better original matches for concubines and mothers, but at that time, society didn't have much tolerance for concubines, so if you marry a rich man as a concubine, her children will be humiliated by people's eyes.

If you have another jealous first wife, you won't be as vicious as Lv Hou, but if the first wife doesn't like her and does nothing, she will be miserable. If the first wife sells it at a low price again, this ancient woman is not suitable for the second husband, which is tantamount to committing suicide. Therefore, as the old saying goes, it is better to be a poor wife than a rich concubine.