In ancient times, if you were rich, could you have unlimited wives?

No, the Book of Rites stipulates that "the son of heaven has six palaces, three wives, nine concubines, twenty-seven concubines and eighty-one emperors". There is also: "There are 120 people in WangZhifei: the last, the third lady, the ninth lady, the twenty-seventh lady and the eighty-first lady." In ancient times, the emperor was respected, and there was a rule that the emperor married and concubined. Others shall not exceed the number of sons of heaven.

In ancient times, there were very strict restrictions on marriage, requiring people to be suitable, not maids, domestic slaves or prostitutes. In the Western Zhou Dynasty, nobles were forbidden to marry ordinary people.

But this kind of marriage is only to correct the wife, and concubinage is not restricted. It is very common to have a large number of concubines before marriage in ancient times, because concubines' status in ancient times was very underground, only a little higher than that of ordinary slaves. Therefore, those concubines in the movie are not reliable.

In ancient times, men only had one wife, that is, Minmei married the right wife who entered the home. Moreover, the wife's identity is different, and the wife belongs to the master and mistress of the family. You can see it with men to some extent. I need to serve my master and wife in my daily life.

In ancient times, there were many restrictions on divorce. In ancient times, the so-called divorce was divorce. There are seven reasons for "divorcing a wife", namely: unfilial parents, childless, lustful, jealous, suffering from bad diseases, talkative and stealing. However, there are not so many restrictions on concubines' divorce, because concubines were similar to slaves to some extent at that time.

To some extent, monogamy was practiced in ancient times, because in their view, concubines were not wives at all.