Fiction serial: Floating Life in Liantang - Legend of the Family of Cheng Family in Minhou, Fujian (290)
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290, early marriage affects personal physical fitness?
chapter, January 16, 1934, the second day of the twelfth lunar month, was the day when people in Jibixiang, Fuzhou had a happy velvet shop owner. The daughter of the boss Lin Fangzheng and the 16-year-old girl (name of the household registration book: Xiuyu) got married that day.
The man is the second son of the owner of a mount shop in Nanhou Street, and he is 10 years older than the eldest girl.
At that time, it was very common for men to be ten years older than their wives.
The husband is relatively mature and the wife is younger. This age combination is the most reasonable.
"Zhou Li·Diguan·Media": "The media clerk is in charge of the judgment of all people... and ordered a man to marry at thirty, and a woman to marry at twenty... If the order is not used for no reason, he will be punished."
Media clerk is an official in charge of marriage, a "civil servant" and receives government salary.
Some people believe that the sentence "The Book of Zhou" means that in the Western Zhou Dynasty, " legal marriage ages are thirty and twenty years old respectively."
is a mistake. The following sentence at
is very important: "If you do not require orders for no reason, you will be punished."
means that the media has a basic standard in performing official duties. Men who are 30 years old and women who are 20 years old must get married. Those who do not execute this order for no reason will be punished.
"Male thirty" and "Female twenty" are deadlines, not starting points, not "beginning to get married".
In fact, if people get married before this deadline, they will never be able to ask for it.
Because economic activities require a lot of labor, and military operations require a lot of troops.
Li Bai's "Changgan Xing": "Fourteen is the king's wife, and she has never looked embarrassed." The woman got married at the age of 14.
Li Shangyin's "Unt title": "The fourteen hidden relatives, but I still haven't married. I cry in the spring breeze for fifteen, and under the swing on my back." Before I got married at the age of 15, the girl "crying in the spring breeze" and was very sad.
In the Qing Dynasty, the Qing Dynasty selected the girls who were selected as the Eight Banners girls aged 13 to 17.
Emperor Kangxi married Hesheli, who was the same age, at the age of 11 in 1665.
1 years old got married?
At this time, Xuanye should not be able to "practice" yet, right?
Kangxi's first son Chengrui was born in November 1667, so Kangxi had to practice at the beginning of the year in 1667.
667, Kangxi was almost 13 years old.
He was born in May 1654.
However, Chengrui was not born by Hesheli, but by Rongfei Ma Jia.
It is estimated that Ma Jia is a few years older than Hesherri.
1-year-old Hesherry probably hasn't ovulated yet.
The first child of Hesheli, Chenghu, was born in 1670 after she married Kangxi five years ago. They were 16 years old that year.
In history, it is not uncommon for men to become fathers at the age of 15 or 6 and to become grandfathers at the age of 30.
htmlIn the mid-19th century, the British opened the door of China with strong ships and powerful cannons, and the west wind spreads eastward.
took only a few decades. At the beginning of the 20th century, the Chinese were successfully brainwashed by Westerners, and the Chinese began to follow the West.
Chinese people who have never discriminated against homosexuality for thousands of years have also begun to discriminate against homosexuality.
Marriage age is naturally also aligned with the West.
At that time, in the UK, although a few people still got married at a young age, the vast majority of British people had a marriage age of over 20 years old.
As early as the 17th century, the Anglican Church stipulated that without the consent of parents, the bride and groom must "begin to get married" at least at the age of 21.
Chinese people saw it and learn!
I saw an archive collected by the Tianjin Archives online, 1920 The Hebei Provincial Department of Education issued the order to Hebei Provincial First Normal School.
(above picture: Hebei Provincial Department of Education in 1920.)
The content of the training is . Men and women in school are not allowed to get married early: "Boys and women in primary and secondary schools are not allowed to get married before the age of eighteen."
The first sentence of the training is to criticize early marriage: "The harm of early marriage, the smallest affects personal physical fitness, and the big ones affects the prosperity and decline of the nation."
Early marriage "affects personal physical fitness" is purely taken for granted, and there is no "big data" to support his statement.
Emperor Kangxi got married at the age of 11 and lived to be 69 years old. In his time, living at 69 years old was a long life, and 70 years old was not a long life, but a "seventy years old".
Kangxi's concubine Wan Liuha was selected as a palace maid at the age of 14 and lived to be 96 years old.
Kangxi's grandson Qianlong got married at the age of 16 and lived to be 89 years old. The longevity of a long life.
It can be seen that early and late marriage have no necessary connection with "personal constitution".
920 Hebei Provincial Department of Education believed that "early marriage affects personal physical fitness" may come from the traditional Chinese concept.
Yuan Dynasty "Sanyuan Shousheng Counselor's Book" says: " A man breaks the yang too early, which will hurt his essence; a woman breaks the yin too early, which will hurt his bloodline. "
has no scientific basis.
Four years before the Hebei Provincial Department of Education issued the above-mentioned order, in 1916, 15-year-old Zhang Xueliang got married.
Zhang Xueliang lived for 100 years and 4 months.
However, getting married too early like Kangxi may affect his children's physical condition.
Kangxi's first child Chengrui lived for only two years.
However, more than 100 years ago, China, which was weak and bullied by the great powers, worked hard to achieve strength, and all aspects wanted to "learn from the barbarians' strengths to control the barbarians". It is also a matter of no early marriage without saying anything.
is a bit overkill.
However, the government's laws are not as radical as the instructions of the Hebei Provincial Department of Education.
1930 revised "Civil Law of the Republic of China·Relatives" clearly defines the age at which marriage begins: male 18 years old and female 16 years old.
The minimum marriage age for women is two years younger than that of men.
Fuzhou Jibixiang, the daughter of Lin Fangzheng, the owner of the meat velvet shop in Lin Fangzheng, was born in 1918. By the beginning of 1934, she happened to be 16 years old, which is considered to be 16 years old.
According to the law, it is also a perfect age for marriage.
However, Lin Fangzheng did not arrange his daughter's marriage according to the law, and he didn't even know that the government had issued new marriage age regulations.
There was no "legal publicity" at that time.
According to the regulations of the Qing Dynasty, women can get married at the age of 14.
Lin Fangzheng only arranges it according to local customs in Fuzhou, his own experience and his own financial ability.
From a customary perspective, people believe that girls can get married as long as they start their menstruation.
According to his own experience, when Lin Fangzheng got married in 1917, he was 30 years old and the Yan family he married was 17 years old.
In fact, when to get married, the decisive role is economic strength.
is the same as it is now.
This has been the case in all dynasties, right?
In the 1930s, people from Fuzhou held a marriage, but continued the tradition that had existed for thousands of years. The value of the woman's dowry was higher than the value of the man's betrothal gift.
Lin Fangzheng opened this meat velvet shop in 1921. It had been 13 years by 1934, and he had enough financial strength to buy a decent dowry for his daughter.
Lin Fangzheng's wife Yan wants her daughter to sing the poem "Crying Marriage Song". The lyrics are sung in the first few lines, as if Lin Fangzheng and his wife sold their daughter:
"The groom came to pick up the bride, and the parents are really different. Sell the slave to receive the gift, take the gift to brothers, and buy land to seek the bride."
The whole family knows that the eldest sister gets married, and it is not "sells to receive the gift" at all, so the eldest sister is not willing to sing the poem "Crying Marriage Song).
Lin Fangzheng's apprentice (actually child labor) Cheng Tianchi and Lin Fangzheng's sister Lin Youling, two young men "stand up" and rewrite those sentences for the eldest sister.
934 Sunday morning, January 7, 1934, Tian Chi and Youling took out their respective "works".
It was originally supposed to sing the lyrics to the eldest girl that day, but Youling found that the pen used by Tianli to copy the lyrics was her father's, and the three words "Lin Haomin" were engraved on the pen.
Now, everyone's attention immediately changed, and Youling cried in tears.
Crying poem (crying song) I didn’t talk about it that day.
The next day was Monday. In the evening, Wu Yaru, a teacher from Guanglufang Daonan Primary School near the meat velvet shop, came to the meat velvet shop to find a velvet shop and asked him to tell him what happened in the Big Lazy Temple (Linshui Palace) that day at the end of 1929.
day ruler, how did the family come to Fuzhou from the countryside sugarcane and the big-breasted temple (Linshui Palace) at the entrance of Jibi Lane, how to draw lots, how to meet the "Mr. Gao" who was unwritten, how to "Mr. Gao" "very painful (nice), how to patiently unwritten the signature for them, how to lend him a pen to copy the signature, how to be arrested by the police, how to "fry (fry)" the pen to him, and how to "fry (gift)" the pen to him. I have said it again in detail.
Yaru listened carefully, not crying like her daughter.
She is already 37 years old.
Moreover, the first day, her daughter Youling rushed home from the meat velvet shop with the pike pen. She had already cried once when she saw the things and thought of others.
Although he did not cry loudly, he still cried and wiped his tears with his handkerchief from time to time.
During this period, Yaru asked a lot of questions.
She wants to dig out all the details of her husband's last day of his free life.
That day, after leaving the big breast temple, my husband went to hell.
And the young man in front of him is the last witness of her husband's free life.
4 years ago, and the last image of my husband during his lifetime has become increasingly blurred.
He often appears in Yaru's mind, but he was a longer-term person: when they got married, she and him went to Shanghai on a steamboat. When she gave birth to a daughter...
At this moment, Yaru wanted to listen to the story of Tianzhi to catch her husband's gradually fading away, and her voice and smile gradually blurred.
press to not table.
Finally, when the Tian Ru finished speaking, Yaru asked another question: "According to the ruler, Ru Xu Ri saw the police, did you see the police?" Did you see the police that day, and did you see others?
