The aftermath of the domineering president has not yet come to an end, and the character of the middle-aged uncle suddenly collapsed under the Mid-Autumn Festival moonlight. The melon-eating crowd was in high spirits, but the truth was still in vague.
For famous and rich upper class people, monogamy is nothing more than a constraint on the grassroots class and is useless to them. They can be called leaders and pioneers of the Renaissance, and naturally the revival of the long-standing monogamous system, which can also be called the male priority open marriage.
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From the ancient times when it was unexamined and difficult to test, until the National Government promulgated the Civil Law, Relatives, and clearly stipulated the monogamy system, China's monogamy and polygamy system had gone through thousands of years, while the nominal monogamy and non-consort system had less than a hundred years.
As early as the Shang and Zhou dynasties to the Spring and Autumn Period, the principle of "monogamy" had been determined. Whether the emperor or the commoner, there can only be one formal wife. Everyone is equal before the law. However, the emperor of course cannot be equal with the commoner. Although there can only be one wife, the emperor can have as many as eighty-one concubines according to the regulations. If the commoner wants to take a concubine, at least first ask whether his wallet agrees and whether he can afford to support an extra woman.
Wife is a formal spouse and must be married to a formal wife, and is called a formal wife or a formal wife or a formal wife. If the wife’s relatives commit crimes, it will be included if the husband kills three or nine clans. There are countless people in history who inexplicably lost their heads because the husband of a female relative whom he had never seen was in trouble. The children born by a wife are called legitimate descendants and have the right to inherit the orthodox legal principles. The status of a concubine in the family is lower than that of a wife. No matter how favored she is, the children she gives birth to can only be called a concubine, and the legal rights are inherently lower than that of a legitimate child.
From Qin Shihuang to Wei Xiaobao, whether the Han people in charge of the government or the other tribes in China, the system of monogamy and multiple concubines is a glorious tradition of generation after generation. For example, Wei Xiaobao, the old version contains seven wives who are not righteous. In the new version, Princess Jianning is the wife who is the most important. No matter how friendly Shuang'er is or how beautiful A Ke's is, she can only serve as the deputy to the unruly and arrogant princess. It can be seen that when Jin Yong was revising his novel, he also remembered the ancient saying that if the name is not correct, the words are not smooth, and the superiors and inferiors must be distinguished.
Later, the west wind blew strongly. By 1930, when the Republic of China government promulgated laws to stipulate monogamy, taking concubines was actually widespread, and the government could only require senior officials to take the lead in leading fashion and not to take concubines. But there are policies above and below. Isn’t it advocates equality between men and women and not to find younger ones? Then follow the monogamous rules: after separating from the original wife, a capable person will marry his next partner directly, and will neither divorce nor live with his original wife. This situation is still common in the northwest region in the 1930s and 1940s.
After the promulgation of the " Marriage Law " in 1950, the concubine system was basically completely abolished - however, Hong Kong and Macao are exceptions. For example, the Macau gambling king, who is 96 years old this year, changed the old rules of inheriting the family business by his legitimate son and distributed most of the family business to his two daughters born to the second wife.
There are many successful people along the coast, but the family is also intact. It is said that the only requirement of his wife is: he can spend money on outsiders, but most of his family property must be, must be, and can only be left to his wife's children.
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is different from the monogamous system of polygamy. Some religions in the world clearly stipulate that polygamy can be used. Typically, such as the Mormon in the United States: It is common for a man to have more than four wives. There is no need to mention countries like Saudi Arabia, , Afghanistan, , even in Singapore, where secular society is developed, believers who believe in a certain religion can still be polygamous, which is allowed by law. Libya had already banned polygamy. After the civil war in 2011, Libya restored the legality of polygamy marriage.
The Western tradition of monogamy is said to come from Christian doctrines. But religion belongs to religion. Sometimes the power of human nature is powerless to stop religion. For example, the late Princess Diana once asked Prince Charles: Why do you cheat on Camilla, who is older and uglier than yourself, and why do you neglect yourself? The prince replied: Because I don't want to be a Duke of Wales without a mistress.
Miss wife is the invention of Westerners against monogamy, but of course, like the three wives and four concubines in China, it was also a luxury for nobles rather than civilians at the beginning. The European royal family has a long tradition of having mistresses and mistresses. Without mistresses other than legal spouses, it will make people contempt and unable to raise their heads. The common phrase to praise a woman for being self-cleaning was: How pure she is, she has only one lover.
Because European royal nobles generally believe in Christianity, and Christianity strictly stipulates monogamy, it is really unrealistic for European kings to plan to flip the brands every night like Grandpa Qianlong. But the needs of human nature are there, so mistresses coexist in parallel with open monogamy as a royal culture that exists like unspoken rules. For example, King of France Henry IV collected 56 mistresses with names and surnames that are still available for examination. The four are missing, just like a deck of playing cards. But compared with Zhang Shaochun, a new celebrity who has collected 148 mistresses, the fun of poker is still not as good as mahjong.
And Louis XV's mistress Madame Pompadour not only instigated the Seven Years War to seize the global colonies, but also a famous patron of art and literature. She sponsored the famous French Enlightenment Thinker Voltaire , supported the compilation of Diderot's encyclopedia, and developed the creation of the great palace artist Boucher. Voltaire praised her for "having a meticulous and delicate brain and a heart full of justice."
Many elites like Voltaire have almost received donations from Madame Pompadur. To a certain extent, the mistresses of the European royal family not only made Mozart shine, but also personally promoted the transformation from feudalism to capitalism in Europe. Their role in history is often covered up intentionally or unintentionally. In fact, the king's most beloved royal mistress at that time definitely outdone all women, including the queen, who were the real uncrowned descendants.
However, compared with the Chinese emperors, the kings of Europe are still much more restrained. They have low status and no inheritance rights with the children born to their mistresses. No matter how they fight, they cannot be compared with the eighth and thirteenth and thirteenth and thirteenth and thirteenth and thirteenth.
Although the royal family collapsed one after another and the king and ministers were replaced by the parliamentary government, the mistress culture survived tenaciously. Princess Diana is as beautiful as a flower, but she doesn't know that what she wants to fight against is not Camilla, but the traditional cultural origins in Europe for hundreds or thousands of years. Sometimes when royal members gather, they tacitly only bring their mistresses to attend. If they bring their wives here... it is clearly an act of automatically quitting the small group.
Later, Western culture became popular, and officials from some developing countries also learned this set of European royal family members. Whether it is arrogant, extravagant, or frivolous, if you don’t even have a mistress, what circle do you still have?
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0 wives and concubines and lovers, nominally, they were blown away by the rain and wind with modern times. However, the human need has always been firm, so on the basis of legal marriages, legal open marriages have emerged.
Open Marriage refers to no longer tying sex, marriage and love on the carriage of monogamy, but establishing a new type of husband-wife relationship that neither aggrieves the other party nor oneself: not treating the other party as the only sexual object. For example, the famous French cultural people Sartre and Beauvoir are like this. As well-known scholars, Sartre and Beauvoir, as feminists, each have their own many sexual partners.
In today's China, many cheating and affair are not actually considered open marriages, but can only be considered as substantial monogamy and multiple concubines. As for the treatment you give to your concubine, it depends on the different levels of kindness of each uncle. To put it bluntly, it is still a patriarchal society: only when the economic status of men and women is close to equality can there be de facto open marriages. Otherwise, it will be just a resurgence of the system of monogamous and multiple concubines and the system of multi-faceted couples.
Does monogamous marriage conform to human nature? Yang Guo felt that it was in line, but Wei Xiaobao might not agree.Judging from the actual situation of thousands of years of history, no matter the West, East, this and that, those in power do not prohibit the people from pursuing sexual partners outside of husband and wife - because they cannot be forbidden.
There is a difference between men and women. If most men are big bad wolf and most women are little white rabbit , then the little white rabbit may naturally want to date a big bad wolf many times, but the big bad wolf hopes to date each of the many little white rabbits once. The history of human beings over thousands of years has been a process of endless moral laws and regulations, and the unswerving needs of the big bad wolf. In most cases, the actual situation is like this: the explicit provisions of a big bad wolf with a little white rabbit are written on the flag. The number of little white rabbits that the big bad wolf can occupy under the flag depends on the personal ability of the big bad wolf. People with ability can also become big bad wolf; people with power can only be forced to be little white rabbits obediently.
Whether it is a modern open marriage or an ancient monogamous system of multiple concubines, it is all exclusive toys for the upper class of powerful people, such as Sima Yi, and does not belong to the vast grassroots ant people. Ideally, to build a harmonious society of mankind, it should have been a big bad wolf with a big bad wolf, a little white rabbit with a little white rabbit, Yang Guo's reference to Yang Guo, and Wei Xiaobao's reference to Wei Xiaobao. However, before everyone is equal to monogamy legal restrictions, Wei Xiaobao and others could only pretend to be Yang Guo silently. As for the melon-eating crowd, many people scolded cheating indignation, but they were really envious of their destiny. Anyway, no matter what system or system is, the most difficult thing to confront is to confront the human nature.
