In order to keep the 18-year-old sister-in-law widowed, the eldest uncle imprisoned the sister-in-law for 50 years, but the hut that closed her became a famous attraction
In the past, women basically had no status to speak of, requiring them to follow their fathers at home, marry their husbands, and take their chastity very seriously, demanding that from the beginning to the end, this shackle locked on the neck of women seemed to be an honor at that time, if the husband died, she could keep the festival for her husband for a lifetime, and she would be regarded as a virgin, and the official family would give her a chastity archway. This seems to be a cold building, but the meaning is very high, if a certain family has a piece, the other girls in the family are easy to marry, even men will have a lot of face when they go out.
At that time, many people would force the newly widowed women to remarry for this piece of thing, and some were afraid that they would cheat and even kill them. In the Ming Dynasty, in order to make her 18-year-old sister-in-law widowed, the eldest uncle locked her up for 50 years, and now her cabin has become a famous attraction.
During the Ming Dynasty, there was a merchant, his surname was Xu, and he married a lady of the Hu clan, who was only a teenager at the time. Originally, she was still very happy to marry into the Xu family, but it did not take long to usher in the gray darkness, and her husband went out to run goods not long after his new marriage, but he met a bandit on the way and was killed. How will a newly married woman lose her husband like this?
Her eldest uncle made a plan for her, and the eldest uncle would not let her remarry, but wanted her to keep the festival. In order to prevent her from seeing men, the eldest uncle renovated her courtyard and set up a small courtyard for the Hu family, and a two-person high wall was built in the courtyard. This wall completely cut off the courtyard, leaving only a small door on the wall, and the small door could only be passed by one person, which was reserved for the grandmother of the family, who wanted to bring food to Hu. In order for Hu to be completely isolated, he also drilled a well in the yard, which was for her exclusive use. This place is the door inside the wall and has now become a famous attraction.
The whole yard was almost completely sealed, because there was no window in the yard except for the small door that allowed Mamma to enter and exit. It was in this narrow and quiet courtyard that she spent the remaining 50 years. Fortunately, she later had a son, which was born in this courtyard before her husband's accident, and grew up there to be nine years old. After the age of nine, his great uncle took him out to study, and he rarely returned.
Hu's son naturally knew about his mother-in-law's situation, so he worked very hard, and later became an official, he wanted his mother to live a normal life and walk out of the courtyard, but Hu had fully adapted to the seclusion life and refused to come out. After her death, she stepped out of the door, which was transported out in a coffin.