In modern society, the awakening of individual consciousness has made the older generation's idea of "making up a life" abandoned by young people. They are more committed to finding someone who can be talked about with their three views and interests. Under the influence of this kind of thinking, young people have higher standards of marriage for themselves, paying more attention to whether two people are in tune. Therefore, there are many phenomena of getting along for a long time before marriage, and even living together to "try marriage".
Through this kind of "trial marriage", you can often see the small details hidden by the other half in love, which can make you evaluate the other half more accurately. This trend of "trial marriage" seems absurd, but it is quite effective. In fact, in the Qing Dynasty, there was such a trial marriage system.
Speaking of the Manchu Qing Dynasty, the dynasty that made China a miasma, they were a nation on horseback, so they didn't care much about civilized etiquette. Moreover, the Qing Dynasty also had many strange systems, and the "premarital test" was one of them. Moreover, the "trial marriage" of the Qing Dynasty is different from the test that modern people make for feelings. What they pay attention to is only talking about physical love, not emotional love.
Modern people's trial marriage is to test whether the feelings will change, so as to decide whether to get married or not. The Qing Dynasty, on the contrary, checked whether the man had a good ability to reproduce before marriage, and then decided whether to continue the marriage.
Such a custom is actually because the ancient princes were too young to marry. Ordinary children of the royal family, at the age of fifteen or sixteen, are to accept the marriage of the elders and marry a woman who does not know each other. And those who marry the princes are naturally princesses and geges who are not low in status. At this time, a test of the princes will quietly unfold.
On the day before the marriage, the woman's elders usually arrange for the maid to go to the man's home to share the spring supper with the man. Through the performance of the man on this night, the man is judged to decide whether to get married. Princesses will do this before marrying a pack horse to ensure the "happiness" of the princess's future life.
In addition, there is a little benefit to doing so. In ancient times, there was no education in physiological knowledge, and most of them taught boys how to become a man on the night of "trial marriage". This is also an extremely important biology classroom.
In this system, it is usually arranged for the lady's side to try marriage. After understanding this, I somewhat understood why Ziwei's side had to follow the golden lock all the time. If according to the formal etiquette system, before Falcon marries Ziwei Gege, Jin Suo will first go to the Fu family to do a "premarital test". Therefore, in a strict sense, jinsuo is actually the third of the two, and Ziwei has no way.
Fortunately, this strange system has long gone with history, otherwise I don't know how many chaos will be made.