Ancient societies often did not have the stability of the present, when wars were raging, wives and children were scattered, and everywhere they went were sad cries. Even in stable dynasties, there were still wars in the border areas of the country. Where there is war, there is death, and where there is strife, there is no family happiness, there is fragmentation. Where there is no war, the people still do not have a good life, and they will go through very torturous labor. At that time, men either went to the battlefield after being conscripted, or they went to various projects to serve in various fields and did not return home for many years. Of course, the pain is not tightly related to men, women's lives are more painful, they are more of a mental torture. When their husbands are conscripted into the army, then they are likely to face the result of their husbands dying on the battlefield, and when their husbands go to labor, then it is very painful when they live alone.
For women, of course, these are painful, at least they will not be harmed physically. The most miserable women of antiquity were those of the defeated nations, and when their countries were breached, they were plundered back to their own countries as captives by the soldiers of the victorious countries. Women like these not only suffer from the loss of their homeland, the loss of their country, the loss of relatives, but even the feeling of coming to a strange place with such a mood and experiencing some indescribable torture. These women are pathetic, and they are not as happy as the men who died in battle.
Generally speaking, there are only two outcomes for these women to be captured, one of which is to be pulled back to the country and sold as goods. In the eyes of the victorious, their lives were like those of beasts, and they became slave girls after being sold cheaply in the trading market. In ancient times, female slaves were real beings, they would be enslaved by their masters to do some dirty work, and such people were also impersonal beings, and they had to live under the shadow of being called upon all their lives. The second is that they are insulted directly by the victorious army when they are captured, and even if they do not want to, the men will domineeringly not give them any chance to resist.
The most famous case in history is the shame of Jing Kang, when the people captured by the Jin army included the emperor, harem concubines, imperial relatives, officials and eunuchs, and so on, with more than 3,000 people. Half of them were tortured to death in just one month, and the rest were repeatedly tortured and humiliated on the road. The people in the army insulted them for a long time, and when they got tired of playing, they killed them directly, and in their eyes, these captured women were playthings, and there was no personality to respect. Women who survived such a tragic process, although they can be lucky, are not sexual. After these women were sent to the capital of the Jin Dynasty, they were arranged to enter the "Huan Clothing Bureau", which was, to put it bluntly, a brothel, and they were trampled on until their deaths.