How did you recognize your relatives in ancient times?

Nowadays, people are particularly open-minded, so there are many cases of finding out that the child is the old king next door after marriage. But what if the ancients also had this situation? The medical conditions in ancient times were not particularly developed, so we could not go to the hospital for paternity test.

However, the wisdom of the ancients is infinite. They invented a series of methods to recognize relatives, such as dropping blood and bones. Although these methods have no scientific basis, they were the only distinguishing methods in ancient times. However, it is easy to cause many false and true unjust cases, so an official in the Western Han Dynasty came up with a wonderful way.

During the Western Han Dynasty, a family, a brother and a younger brother lived together. Their wives were pregnant at the same time, but their brother's child died at birth, so he took his brother's son as his own, so his brother sued his brother, but the county magistrate has been difficult to judge who the child really is.

When Premier Ba Huang heard about this incident, he decided to make his own judgment. He asked people to take the child to class, and then his sister-in-law and his sister-in-law grabbed the child, and whoever grabbed it was his.

As a result, my sister-in-law tugged at the child after listening, but she was afraid of hurting the child and didn't dare to catch it. Her expression was sad and tears ran down her face.

So Ba Huang immediately judged that the child was a younger brother, because the mother didn't want to spend so much effort to take care of the child. Ba Huang didn't rely on the so-called "blood-dripping" and "bone-dripping" methods, but started with family relations and successfully judged who was the mother of the child.

In fact, there have been many such cases in the ancient history of China. Due to the backward technology in ancient times, many mothers and children separated. With the example of Ba Huang, officials will proceed from their feelings when deciding cases in the future, which is more likely to be correct.

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