The "most bizarre" cheating incident during the Chenghua period of the Ming Dynasty reflects the social customs of the Ming Dynasty!

is the so-called: the human heart may be ambiguous, but the way of heaven does not change. I don't adulterous women, and people don't adulterate my wife.

During the Ming Dynasty, there was a boy named Jiang Xingge in Zaoyang County, Xiangyang, Hubei. He lost his mother at the age of 9 and followed his father to the north and south. He traveled between Hubei and Guangdong to do business all the year round. Over time, the Jiang family became a big family. This Jiang Xing brother looks like Panan, clever and smart, so he is very popular with everyone.

There are unforeseen circumstances in the sky, and people have misfortunes and blessings. When Jiang Xingge was 17 years old, his father died of illness at his home. He was the only child without his parents. Since then, he has been standing and hanging together, very lonely. The clan relatives arbitrarily married him a daughter-in-law, because his father made a baby kiss for him early when he was alive. The daughter-in-law is the three daughters of the old man Wang's family in this county, named San Qiaoer, who is a beautiful woman in Zaoyang County. Ruotianxian.

Just after his father's first year, Jiang Xing brother married Sanqiaoer. These two young people are talented and beautiful. They are a match made in heaven. They are very good. They are very affectionate when they first fall in love. From then on, they will not go out of the door. They are in love with men and women. They completely forget the passing of time.

has always been hard days and hard days to stay, unknowingly three years of filial service is full.

Jiang Xing remembered that he hadn't taken care of his business in Guangdong for three years. It was time to check it out, collect the bills, and discuss with his wife at night, saying that he was going to check the business in Guangdong. When the young couple thought of the long journey, they had gone for half a year. They were suffering from long-distance love and couldn't bear to separate. They were delayed for another two years.

Brother Jiang Xing, in the fifth year after his father’s death, finally made up his mind to go to Guangdong. One day in February, he said to his wife: "Qiaoer, our husband and wife have to start a business when we get married. We can no longer sit and eat. We can’t give up the industry in Guangdong. Now the weather in February is neither cold nor warm. It is a good time for me to go south to Guangdong." Z1z

Sanqiaoer could no longer keep her husband. The two pointed to the spring tree in the yard and agreed that when the tree sprouted next year, the husband would definitely Want to come back. Before leaving, Jiang Xing gave his wife Sanqiao'er to take care of the family's delicate and precious details. He took a young servant and left an old man, a cook, and two maids to take care of Sanqiao'er. He said to Sanqiaoer: "The lady lives patiently. There are a lot of frivolous children, and you are born beautiful. Don't look at the door and attract the fire." The wife said, "Don't worry about officials, go early and return early."

Jiang Xing took the longing for his wife and set foot on the road to Guangdong. He soon arrived in Guangdong. Friends and business partners from the past came to pick up the wind, and he was there every day for more than a month. He had already emptied his body at home and was toiling all the way. Now he is eating irregularly, and soon fell ill. From summer to autumn, he gradually improved. Most of the year, I was ill in bed, the business was delayed, everything that should be done was not done, and I did not go home by the end of the year. Since her husband Jiang Xingge left, San Qiao'er has been very obedient to her husband. Although she lives in a double-sided building facing the street, she only lives in the back building.

Unknowingly it is the Spring Festival, the first day of the first lunar month, and the street is very lively in the house. The two maids, Dark Cloud and Nuanxue, persuaded Sanqiao'er to look at the neighborhood in the front building.

San Qiaoer opened the window and looked out. The street was bustling with excitement. She noticed that there was a blind man in the crowd, so she asked the maid to call her home, to calculate when her husband could come back. The fortune-teller can be said to be the earliest psychiatrist in our country. Knowing what the woman wants the answer most, he said that her husband had already left and would be back in half a month.

Sanqiaoer believed it to be true, and she looked forward to her husband eagerly. From then on, she always stayed in the front building, looking out the window. One day, she saw a handsome man from a distance, dressed very much like her husband, thinking that it was Jiang Xing who came back, she kept staring at this man, but she didn't expect to admit the wrong person. And this person also saw the Meijiao Niang Sanqiaoer upstairs. This person was named Chen Dalang, who came to Xiangyang to do business in Xin'an County, Huizhou. She fell in love with Sanqiaoer at first sight, and wanted to embrace her beautifully.

Chen Dalang was thinking about how to seduce Sanqiaoer. Finally, remembering that Mrs. Xue, the dentist who had done business with him, was a good talker, he did not hesitate to ask Mrs. Xue to help him fulfill his wish.

This old lady Xue used tricks to get acquainted with Sanqiaoer, and gradually gained Sanqiaoer’s trust. Finally, she and Sanqiaoer lived in the same room every night. If they had a good relationship, they could only sleep in one bed. Qiao'er talked about jokes, how to steal a man, and said that his husband might be someone outside. In the end, on a dark night with high winds, when Sanqiao'er could not be restrained, Chen Dalang was attractedroom.

Chen Dalang succeeded in stealing the jade and the incense. San Qiaoer also met the nectar for a long time. From then on, the two are very good. In the summer, Chen Dalang also made money, and the business was not done. Due to life, Chen Dalang came with him all day and night. Sanqiaoer bid farewell, and the two of them had been in love for a long time, and they were reluctant to separate. Sanqiaoer wanted to elope with Chen Dalang. Chen Dalang said that it was easy to expose and disagreed. San Qiaoer gave her husband's ancestral "pearl shirt" to her lover Chen Dalang: this "pearl shirt" is very pleasant to wear in summer.

Brother Jiang Xing met Chen Dalang on his way back home. The two of them were like-minded. They were very good. They accidentally saw the ancestral "pearl shirt" and learned about the adultery between Chen Dalang and his wife. He regretted that he had "valued profit over parting" and had gone for so long that he made a big mistake. After returning home, he deceived his wife back to her natal family and divorced her peacefully. Sanqiao'er was so ashamed that he finally passed on to Wu Jie, a new jinshi, and Jiang Xing also gave Sanqiao'er sixteen boxes of dowry from the original dowry.

Chen Dalang looked at the pearl shirt and sighed every day after returning home. In addition, Chen Dalang didn't have any money when he came back, and his wife Ping also guessed a bit, so he hid the pearl shirt without getting angry. When Chen Dalang couldn't find the pearl shirt, he quarreled with his wife. When he was angry, he took the money and went to Xiangyang to find a lover. He never thought that he would meet a robber halfway, his money was robbed, and his life was almost lost.

When Chen Dalang arrived in Zaoyang, he learned that his scandal had happened, and his lover married away from home. He was hit hard and finally got sick and died. His wife Ping went to Zaoyang to find her husband, and found that her husband had died. She was forced to remarry because of her livelihood, but she married Jiang Xing by mistake.

One year later, Jiang Xing went to do business in Guangdong again. An old man stole his pearls. He fell to death while pushing and shoving. The old man’s family sued him to the government with a petition, which coincided with his ex-wife Sanqiao’er’s husband. The magistrate of Wu County settled the case, and with the help of Sanqiao'er, Jiang Xingge escaped. After learning about the story of Sanqiaoer and Jiang Xingge, the magistrate of Wu County was deeply touched, and the beauty of adulthood, reluctant to cut love, fulfilled the two of them, and the two reunited again. This concludes the story of

, which is recorded in Feng Menglong's "Yu Shi Ming Yan". Although it is a legendary novel, the creation of the story comes from life, and it is also a window for us to peek into history. The emotional tone of the story of

is very clear: Chen Dalang, who seduce his wife, finally lost money and wealth, his wife remarried, and he died; the tolerant and generous brother Jiang Xing, who had a blessing in disguise and had both wealth and wealth, married two beautiful girls. The story of

reproduces all aspects of the Ming Dynasty:

is the crime of adultery. Nowadays, people also hate cheating in morals, but they are more tolerant in law. However, in the Ming Dynasty, “husbands could not only catch rapes, but also use lynching.” The catching rapes could kill the “adulter and adulteress” on the spot. This situation is accurately recorded in the "Daming Zhusi Gong Case". Usually, after being caught, the adulterer will be spanked. Women must take off their clothes and be beaten. If there is a husband, they will be beaten eighty times, and those who do not have a husband will be beaten ninety times. In the secular life of the Ming Dynasty, there was basically zero tolerance for abnormal relations between men and women, and lynching was rampant. Jiang Xingge did not "kill the killer" in the face of his wife's derailment, and was even unwilling to publicize. He chose to forgive his wife and stayed at the house of Gu Quan's wife and father-in-law. He dismissed his wife Sanqiaoer in his face. He did not punish his wife excessively. The first thing he thought of was his own fault as a husband. In his wife's remarriage, he not only did not slander, but also gave 18 boxes of dowry.

faced his wife's derailment, doing what he did was affectionate and righteous, and his affection was deeply moved by his ex-wife Sanqiaoer, and in the end Sanqiaoer would plead with her husband to help Jiang Xingge.

The second is litigation. The presiding judge in this case is the county magistrate Wu Jie. It can be seen that the county magistrate in the Ming Dynasty is both the chief executive and the chief justice, which is very different from the separation of administration and justice today. The biggest judicial feature of the Ming Dynasty was the "disclosure of litigation." The court minimized grass-roots litigation. For this reason: Leapfrog appeals are strictly prohibited, and those who leapfrog appeals hit fifty boards; the false accusation is severely punished, and the law stipulates that false accusations increase and wait; The construction of the declaration pavilion of the grass-roots legal institutions, the establishment of the declaration pavilion in the countryside, is presided over by Li Jia and the seniors in this area, the pavilion is regularly posted to announce the people and affairs of the local people at fault, and the Li Jia and the seniors preside over the minor Civil disputes.

Ming dynasty law stipulates that all small matters such as private household marriages, fields, fights, etc., are not allowed to be reported to officials at all times. First, they must be judged by Lijia and the elderly in the jurisdiction. Sixty, send it back to the jurisdiction for judgment. However, the law stipulates that appeals with complaints must be tried by the chief of the yamen.Envoys and inspectors can serve as chief judges at the grassroots level, but the death penalty is determined at the center. The Central Dali Temple, the Ministry of Criminal Affairs, and the Metropolitan Procuratorate were the three major judicial organs of the Ming Dynasty. In addition, major cases needed to be tried by the "Three Laws Division" or "Jiuqing Yuan".

The third is the tooth woman. The old lady Xue is the key figure in the story. In Ming Dynasty, the feudal ethics and ethics bound and harmed women everywhere. Women could not show their faces, and as an accessory to the patriarchal society, they could be sold at any time, so they gave birth to dentists who were mainly human trafficking. Selling female products such as rouge, pink powder, pearl jewelry, etc., go into and out of other people’s residences to serve women while investigating boudoirs, so as to help others find concubines, sell song girls and dancers, buy cooks, maids, etc. .

Four is Daming Commercial. The story takes place in the Chenghua period, in the middle of the Ming Dynasty. In the story, both Jiang Xingge and Chen Dalang were merchants who went north and south, buying from the south and selling from the north, or from the north to the south. You can see from this that the development of society has removed some people from the land. Be bound to exist. Even if Jiang Xing didn't go to Guangdong for a few years, he was still able to carry out commercial activities in the follow-up. This shows that the division of labor in the society has already produced brokers specializing in commercial activities. The Ming Dynasty did not develop into a commercial society in the end. The reason was that the social system did not allow people to get rid of the shackles of the land. This was also the most essential characteristic of feudal society: the peasants were half-dead and trapped on the land.