China is one of the four ancient civilizations, but also the only ancient country that has not had a civilization fault, the reason why China can be passed down in the 5,000-year history is also because it can be compatible with the strengths of a hundred families, abandoning the old era culture to inherit excellent culture, such as the Dragon Boat Festival dedicated to Qu Yuan, or the moon appreciation.
Although China has a marriage law, in some remote areas, people have not fully understood the law, and the vice of child brides still exists, not only that, child brides have been implemented since the Zhou Dynasty.
The Zhou Dynasty promulgated the concubine system, which stipulates that when a woman marries, the sister and niece must marry with her, after the Qin and Han Dynasties, the emperor will select noble girls to enter the palace, and when they grow up, they will be established as concubines, or promised to the rest of the princes, which can not only control the nobles, but also win people's hearts.
There are also records of child brides in the Three Kingdoms period, and the Chronicle of the Three Kingdoms mentions that "until the age of ten, the son-in-law's family will welcome the eldest bridesmaids as daughters-in-law", which is also the earliest marriage custom, but the child bride system did not become popular in the Three Kingdoms, and then due to the Wuhu Rebellion, the Han nationality almost suffered a disaster.
Central Plains culture was greatly impacted, at that time basically did not care about the formulation of child bride marriage customs, officially began to formulate child bride marriage customs in the Song Dynasty period, "Song Shi Hou Concubine Biography" recorded: Song Yingzong Empress Gao, in a young age bowed in the palace, and Yingzong was also in the palace at this time, and the same year as the empress, Renzong said "the other day will be a match", after growing up the two married, born Shenzong.
During the Yuan Dynasty, the system of child brides was not prohibited, and in the Yuan Dynasty, child brides-in-law had entered a period of development, and during the Ming Dynasty, child brides were once prohibited, and the Household Order recorded that all marriages between men and women had their own time, or those who had fingers and abdomen cutting off their shirts and plackets were prohibited in parallel. The Qing Dynasty also forbade it in order to distinguish between manchus and Han Chinese.
However, the rulers of the Qing Dynasty found that banning child brides-in-law would seriously cause people to rebel, so they were no longer forbidden, and during the Jiaqing period, Anhui revised the "County Chronicle", saying that the poor "girls are raised by people, and the long is the daughter-in-law of the adopter", which means that the daughter born to the poor family is unable to support, so she is given to someone, and she will become the daughter-in-law of the caregiver for a long time.
The "Xincheng County Chronicle" of Jiangxi, which was compiled during the Tongzhi period, also has the idea of heavy marriage, large wedding waste, and more dowry dowries, but the custom of child brides-in-law can greatly reduce this expenditure, and this custom was only slightly restrained until the Republic of China period, but there are still many child brides.
Bai Wei, a talented daughter of the Republic of China, is one of the child bridesmaids, although Bai Wei's father Huang Han stayed in school, but still adopted a conservative idea for his daughter's marriage, Bai Wei was sent to the man's home as a child bride at the age of 9, Bai Wei had to work every day, get up early and be greedy, one who did not do well would be beaten, she still escaped with the help of her uncle, and only then began to study.
It's just that Bai Wei still can't escape the old marriage, in order not to let her escape from marriage, her father let the school block the school, Bai Wei fled to Japan to study, and he has been unmarried because of emotional entanglement, until his death, sad and lamentable!