Debate on the Emperor's Daughter's Not Worrying about Marrying

The original intention of this sentence is: imperial power is supreme in feudal times, and man's selfish behavior drives him to always want to climb the dragon and attach himself to the phoenix. Being able to marry the emperor's daughter means that you can enjoy prosperity and honor your ancestors all your life. Besides, the emperor's children can enjoy the best education of their time. The ancient princesses in China, besides their outstanding appearance, were mostly proficient in piano, chess, calligraphy and painting, so they were also ideal marriage partners. Now it is often compared to the strength of the seller's market in the economic society. First, the emperor's daughter is a scarce resource in the marriage market.

Whether it is a planned economy or a market economy, there is always a market for scarce resources, and there is generally no market backlog. In feudal times, no matter how many concubines and daughters the emperor had, the number was always limited or even ignored compared with women in the world, which was seriously insufficient compared with the demand of men for the emperor's daughters. Therefore, the daughters of the emperor are undoubtedly rare items in economy and society. (Take the princesses of the Tang Dynasty as an example, Gaozu 19, Taizong 2 1, Gaozong 3, Zhongzong 8, Zong Rui1,Xuanzong 29, Suzong 7, Daizong 18,1/.

The limited number of daughters of the emperor shows that this is a typical seller's market. The daughters limited by the emperor have an overwhelming advantage in the market and firmly control the initiative of love and marriage in the seller's market, that is, the transaction is dominated by the seller.

Under the seller's market conditions, there is a shortage of goods in the market, and the demand exceeds supply, and the price of goods keeps rising continuously. The trading conditions of goods are favorable to the seller but unfavorable to the buyer. Buyers are forced to be in a subordinate position, and often have to compete fiercely to buy scarce goods, forming a spectacular phenomenon that one ticket is hard to find. Therefore, the emperor's daughter has the conditions to choose excellent men.

If this phenomenon occurs in modern society, we can adopt two ways of resource allocation, one is rationing and the other is bidding and auction. Rationing system belongs to a typical command economy, and bidding system belongs to a market economy. Whoever bids high belongs to it. However, the marriage market economy cannot operate completely according to the market bidding system, because people have feelings.

In the feudal era, imperial power was supreme, and man's selfish behavior drove him to always want to climb the dragon and attach himself to the phoenix. Being able to marry the emperor's daughter means that you can enjoy endless prosperity all your life and honor your ancestors.

The emperor's daughter is not worried about marrying, which is related to the fact that men always want to climb the dragon and attach themselves to the phoenix, marry noble people skillfully and achieve their goals in life. It is a common social psychological phenomenon to find a good wife and struggle for less than 20 years, which is a man's dream expectation. But not everyone can find a way to get close to the princes and nobles, so many times, you can become famous without climbing the dragon and phoenix. The existence of a huge demand market will inevitably lead to a serious shortage of supply for the emperor's daughter.

Climbing the dragon and attaching the phoenix is a shortcut to fame with the help of external forces. It has a long history and countless successful people. There are countless people who have made a name for themselves. Ancient scholars had to be officials if they wanted to help the world at the same time. Confucius, the Great Sage, traveled around the world, lobbying for the future, hoping to realize his ideal by climbing the dragon. Sometimes the dragon is not easy to climb, and it is also a good choice to have the phoenix attached. His disciple Yan Hui climbed up to Confucius and worshipped him as a teacher. Because of his affirmation, his reputation for diligence has been passed down through the ages. In fact, Yan Hui is not the only diligent person in the world. How many celebrities are there? In fact, Confucius was unlucky. Although he wanted to climb the dragon and attach the phoenix, he didn't get the fruit of climbing the dragon and attach the phoenix. He is not a successful person.

Lv Buwei in Guanzhong of Qin Shihuang is one of the best. Through funding, buying off Qin, lobbying Mrs. Huayang, becoming an heir, and offering a pregnant pet princess, she got comfortable care. Being favored by Zi Chu means cultivating a "Phoenix". Climb the dragon and attach the phoenix, kill two birds with one stone, and make great contributions. In the future, Zi Chu and Ying Zheng acceded to the throne successively, and both appointed Lv Buwei as the prime minister, sealing 100,000 households, which was called Wen Xin Hou, with infinite scenery. In this regard, Li Zhi approved in "Comments on Shigang": "Everyone bought an emperor and bought an emperor's son, which is great."

Li Bai, a poet, was not a lofty figure from the beginning, who was "safe and obedient, and no one would suffer". When I first started out, I asked for help everywhere, paid tribute to the official, and knew how to climb the dragon and attach the phoenix. His masterpiece "Jingzhou with the Han Dynasty" is extremely flattering to the secretariat of Jingzhou in the Han Dynasty: "As for the gathering of scholars in the world, it is said that' it is not necessary to seal Wan Huhou in the world, but I hope to get to know Jingzhou in Korea'. What's the attraction? As for this? Don't follow the wind of the duke of Zhou, bow down and spit, making domestic heroes run away; Once on the Longmen, the sound price is ten times; Therefore, the people of Long Pan and Feng Yi all want to be famous for their price. " Li Bai wanted to be an official for the first half of his life, but he became arrogant after he was 40 years old, forming a kind of unrestrained and unrestrained "Since the world can never answer our desire, we will send a boat tomorrow".

It is human nature to pursue fame and gain profits, but the ways of becoming famous vary widely. Although there are people like Tao Yuanming who retire to the countryside and regard fame as dirt. However, from his bumpy experience, we can vaguely see the traces of his struggle in vanity fair. Before becoming an official, Tao Yuanming wrote a poem "The Prince" for his newborn son, in which he told the story of the ancestor Tao She assisting Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, hoping that his son would also have the fate of "climbing the dragon forest with phoenix wings". In fact, they express their political ideals and expectations for their future destiny.

Confucius said, "A gentleman is ill and nameless." It means that the gentleman is most worried about being nameless, nameless and ignorant in history after death, and dying with the vegetation. Sima Qian's Biography of Boyi in Historical Records: "Those who want to be famous are not attached to Qingyun, and evil can be done to future generations." It is said that if the lower class poor want to be immortal, they can only rely on the powerful, otherwise they can only be buried. Therefore, if you want to be famous and improve your social status, you have to find ways to improve yourself with external help.

People who are good at borrowing external forces are the easiest to succeed. They use other people's strength, money, wisdom, fame and social relations to enrich their brains, extend their hands and feet, and improve their capital and ability to make money. The so-called "superior monarch" is to use other people's wisdom to illuminate their "future" and "financial path". This is the real meaning of climbing the dragon and attaching the phoenix and marrying a noble person skillfully. In modern society, it is not uncommon to be famous for being rich, famous, powerful and famous.

The same is true in today's era. To achieve something, helping others is often an indispensable key link. Some people are extremely talented, with high IQ and low EQ. They are talented, capable and virtuous, but they have accomplished nothing. They can only stay in the corner in obscurity and sigh for their talents. Some people, with average qualifications, low IQ and high EQ, have made brilliant achievements. In fact, the reason is very simple. People with high emotional intelligence know how to climb the dragon and attach the phoenix, and be a noble person skillfully; People with low emotional intelligence don't understand the true meaning. If you have the help of noble people or the appreciation of Bole, you can 100% release your talents, shorten the time of success and increase the chips of success. Therefore, if you want to succeed, it is essential to help the nobles.

Of course, "noble people" don't all refer to those noble families, royalty and powerful people. They may refer to someone in a high position, or they may instruct you to imitate, and they are slightly better than you in experience, expertise, knowledge and skills. Therefore, they may be your teachers, or they may be your superiors or referees. It is extremely beneficial to your career or work to have the help of distinguished people.

From this point of view, the existence of many groups eager for success, climbing the dragon and attaching the phoenix, has formed a huge demand market, resulting in a serious shortage and insufficient supply of the emperor's daughter, and naturally there is no need to marry.

Second, the emperor's daughter is a high-quality resource in the marriage market.

In feudal times, most people practiced polygamy, especially the emperor. There were other ladies and 3,000 rare beauties in his court, all of whom were beautiful and clever. So, are the daughters of the emperor also beautiful women? I don't think the emperor's daughter is usually very pretty. From the genetic point of view, the emperor's wives and concubines are all peerless beauties, and their genes are very good. Therefore, the daughters of emperors are generally outstanding in appearance.

Emperor Taizong once lamented his imperial examination system: all the talents in the world are in my pocket! In fact, in feudal times, Emperor China should also sigh for choosing marriage: All the beauties in the world are in my palace!

The emperor's supreme power and highly centralized system monopolized the high-quality educational resources in the country. You can choose the best teacher for your children's education, so the emperor's children can enjoy the best education of their time. When we look at the ancient princesses in China, most of them are proficient in piano, chess, painting and calligraphy. Therefore, the emperor's daughter is undoubtedly a high-quality resource in the marriage market, and her quality is very high. Of course, every day, I have no worries about food and clothing, I am extravagant and extravagant, I am spoiled, and I have also developed the bad habit of being impatient and willful.

In the marriage market, the market rules are generally followed, and the allocation of marriage resources emphasizes the right match. Coupled with the limited nature of the emperor's daughter, therefore, the object of choice is the world's talents.

Therefore, it is not easy to marry the emperor's daughter. You should have your own core competitiveness. Not only handsome, but also brilliant and loyal to the imperial power. If you want to defeat many competitors, you must enter the eyes of the emperor and win the favor of the princess. In this asymmetric game, the final victory depends on your hard power and your opponent's preference. If your supply can meet each other's needs, there will be a balanced transaction. In fact, the emperor's choice of a husband for his daughter is also the pursuit of maximizing utility and income.

The traditional concept of feudal society in China was that scholars, farmers, workers and businessmen should learn from and choose the best officials. Restrain the development of commodity economy and deliberately lower the social status of businessmen. However, the people are not completely deceived by this big and empty theme, and it is still a hidden rule in the choice of folk marriage to be too poor and love the rich. Being able to marry the emperor's daughter is naturally the dream of some excellent men. Although there are romantic stories in ancient myths and legends in China, such as the seven fairies marrying the mediocre Yong Dong and the white lady falling in love with the weak Xu Xian, these stories are generally limited to myths and legends, reflecting the dreams and wishes of some men and the ideals of other literati that are difficult to enter the official career. Even so, behind these fairy tales are actually hidden economic principles that are difficult for ordinary people to see. For example, the brocade of the seven fairies turned into a horse overnight; White snakes build houses, which can be achieved by blowing fairy gas; When you have no money, you can turn stone into gold or something.

There is also a phenomenon that the darling daughter of a rich man inadvertently saved a poor scholar who went to Beijing to take the exam. The scholar who finally fell into trouble was a top scholar in high school or a scholar, who had a successful career and married a beautiful woman. This love story is very romantic. From an economic point of view, it explains two problems. First, rich girls are kind, charitable and altruistic. Second, this young lady has a talent vision and strategic vision. She saw that the degenerate scholar was a potential stock with good growth. Therefore, there is actually an element of wealth hidden behind the appearance of talented women, so getting married is like picking stocks. If the stranded scholar is not a potential stock, but a junk stock, a kind rich girl will never engage in private life with him. Economic factors are so important in marriage that to some extent, we can even think that marriage itself is an economic behavior.

Engels said: In the whole private ownership society, the spouse selection system is based on the principle of balancing interests, that is, taking economic interests and political interests as the core and primary standard. Being the daughter of the emperor with scarce resources, coupled with the supreme temptation of political interests, naturally became the dream of excellent men. Of course, ordinary men are out of reach and can only daydream.

Similarly, in the process of choosing a spouse, your development prospects, looks, academic temperament, family background, etc. Are endogenous variables. As long as you have better conditions, you will have a good home.

Everyone doesn't want to have many competitors in his industry. It is better to have no competition. He is a unique monopolist. If you buy it, you have to buy it If you don't buy, you have to buy. After this village, there is no such shop. In today's highly developed market economy, although we hate monopoly, there are still many industries and products in a monopoly state, forming a complete seller monopoly. The "products" provided by these monopoly industries have become the daughters of the emperor, and they can all marry well without worrying about not getting married. The high price of monopoly markets can be imagined.

Third, the compulsory distribution of marital resources.

Being born in the royal family is both lucky and unfortunate for a woman. Fortunately, I won't run for survival like a poor woman, and I don't have to worry about dowry; Unfortunately, poor women have less power and freedom to choose in life than poor women, and they are often victims of political needs. In ancient China, almost all marriages between emperors and their children were closely related to politics.

In ancient times, happy ever after's good girl had profound political factors in her marriage. Generally, they marry ministers, nobles and generals, and in-laws act as a barrier to political power. In fact, in ancient China, the princess's in-laws were very useful for stabilizing state affairs. People who are designated as attached horses are well aware that this is a political marriage, but they are generally willing to accept it. After all, a layer of nepotism with the emperor is also a "helmet."

For the emperor, for political interests, the more daughters, the better. Marry any one you want. If you are close, you can win over the powerful, and if you are far away, you will be bordered. Everyone is easy to marry, and they are well married. This kind of example, turning to the history of China, is an exception for five thousand years. For these rich and precious people, they can't choose their own destiny. They have no choice but to pray to God all day and not to marry too far. Better marry a good man than too many wives. That's all.

In ancient China, politics and intimacy were the main diplomatic strategies to achieve national peace and stability. The most common thing is to marry the daughter of the royal clan to the leader of the surrounding ethnic minorities, with the purpose of political and military marriage. After the Han Dynasty, political marriage gradually prevailed in feudal times. Liu Bang, the emperor gaozu, initiated pro-DPRK diplomacy and married Hun Khan to princess royal, the royal family. Liu Che, the emperor gaozu, followed closely, successively married Princess Xijun and Princess You Jie to King Wusun. In the Han Dynasty, the most famous pro-diplomacy was Zhaojun's departure from the fortress in the Han and Yuan Dynasties, and it is still a beautiful talk of pro-diplomacy.

In the Tang Dynasty, the number of princesses used for marriage was probably the largest in history. The most famous relatives in the Tang Dynasty were twice. Once, in the first month of 64 1 year, Emperor Taizong sent Li Daozong, the minister of rites, to escort Princess Wencheng into Tibet to marry Tubo Zampa Songzangambu. Another time in 709 AD, Wang Yong's daughter Li Shouli, Princess of Jincheng, married Tubo Zanpu Chidesongzan. Because of this, Chen Tao, a poet in the Tang Dynasty, wrote a poem in Longxi, "Since the monarch and his wife got married, Hu Feng was half like a Han family".

Of course, strictly speaking, the daughter of the imperial clan is not a real princess, but only when she is used in politics and diplomacy is she promoted to be a princess. Of course, this promotion is not only a comfort to married women, but also a fool to foreign son-in-law. In any case, it is always an honor and a kind of capital to marry a princess of a big country, whether it is a real princess or a fake princess.

Although Genghis Khan, who is invincible in the world, came out of the Great Yuan Empire across Asia and Europe, he still did not forget the soft policy of pro-diplomacy. Three princesses married korean king, including Kublai Khan's daughter in Yuan Shizu.

Of course, in the history of pro-diplomacy, we Han emperor ministers are not all old fathers-in-law, but also sons-in-law. For example, in the Ming Dynasty, my little brother Koryo often sent Koryo beauties into the palace to curry favor with my big brother Daming. At the end of the Qing Dynasty, Yuan Shikai was appointed as the North Korean overseer, and he mastered the heavy forces to calm the chaos and defend the Japanese. Li Xi dynasty gave Maggie four people at a time, one of whom was Li's consort, the "imperial daughter". In history, we helped Korea again and again, the Ming Dynasty to resist Japan and aid Korea, the Qing Dynasty to resist Japan and aid Korea, and so on. Isn't there an ingredient that does the duty of a son-in-law?

In feudal times, it was the most common phenomenon that power interfered with the marriage of men and women. The characteristic of this kind of marriage is that both parties can't decide their own destiny, and everything is forced by external forces and can't be resisted. Of course, the parties have no right to change the employment marriage caused by parents' orders and the media's one-sided words, but the external forces encountered by these two marriages are different to some extent. Power interference is the combination of power, violence, power and control. Parents may also take care of their children's wishes when they get married. Children at least verbally promise their parents, but the decision is up to them.

Now it is also a replica of this situation. Men marry rich girls, but times are different after all. Young people still have a lot of autonomy, and parents can't completely decide their children's marriage.

From this point of view, the emperor's daughter is not worried about marriage, which stems from insufficient market supply and forms a seller's market. In fact, all phenomena in the economic society are like this. Every year, the champion of the college entrance examination is also the object that famous schools compete to buy. If a commodity is in short supply, the price will rise, which will lead to soaring prices.