As the saying goes, there are three kinds of unfilial piety, and the last is the greatest! In particular, the ancients paid great attention to the succession of the ancestry. Even the emperor of the Ninth Five Years is not careless in this matter. Of course, the emperor has the right to have money. How can you worry about passing on from generation to generation? There are so many concubines, there will always be children! There are also those high-ranking officials who are also three wives and four concubines. Everyone is rushing to take their children to improve their status at home, and there is no need to worry about no one to give birth to children!
and the poor are different. Many poor people can't even talk, let alone marry a wife! How can a girl want to follow her for nothing? In this way, no one will inherit their clan for them. However, how can the ancients who value the inheritance of the clan so much stop here? They must find ways to complete this important task! In the absence of money to marry a wife, the poor people came up with a wonderful way to inherit the family.
had such a custom at the time, which was called "wife marriage". In popular terms, it was to spend money to rent someone else’s wife to give birth to oneself. This phenomenon was very common in ancient times. Some people are also very poor at home, so in order to earn some food rations, they rent their wives to other men, give birth to other men, and charge a certain fee to subsidize their own family.
When the wife is married, the middleman first introduces the two parties, and then after the two people fancy, they will sign the corresponding contract, and then spend money to marry. This process is still very particular. Generally, it needs to go through media verification, contract, hire, and marry And so on. In this transaction, the existence of the contract is very important. It records the time limit, the money that needs to be spent, and the related responsibilities, conditions, and requirements that both parties need to perform during the period. The term of the
contract is about three to five years. Once the term expires, the woman will return to her original family and she must not take away the child. As for the money spent, it has to be determined according to the woman's own situation. It is generally related to age, appearance, and events. The younger and the more beautiful, the higher the cost! As early as the Han dynasty, there were records of the marriage wife. It was not until the beginning of the Republic of China that this phenomenon gradually declined. After the founding of New China, the phenomenon of marriage wife disappeared completely.
By the way, there are many different names for this construction behavior! For example, sitting in a house to recruit husbands, tied up prostitutes, partnered up, wives, rented wives, etc., each place is different. Unexpectedly, in ancient times, the poor could not afford to marry wives, so they used this method to pass on from generation to generation, which is difficult for women to accept now!
