In ancient times, there was not much opposition from men taking concubines, and sometimes wives would even take the initiative to drive their own men to the concubines' houses to live.
But you must not think that this is the wife's generosity, in fact, this is also a helpless move.
Point 1: Ancients wanted concubines on the condition
Everyone should not think that it is a very easy thing for ancient people to take concubines, but if this is the case, it is estimated that the mechanism of the entire imperial court will collapse.
In other words, if an ancient man wanted to take a concubine, he needed to have certain rights himself or a certain right granted to him by the imperial court.
In some dynasties, it was unlikely that some wealthy merchants or wealthy people would want to take concubines.
Because the operation mechanism of the imperial court is here, of course, the main purpose of this series of operation mechanisms is to emphasize agriculture and suppress business, but even if it is suppressed, the merchants will have various methods.
After all, there are many ways to avoid having money and wanting to do something or want to say something.
In ancient times, concubines were generally allowed to be people with meritorious names or meritorious deeds, such as xiucai, juren or impostors, or the imperial relatives and state officials and dignitaries.
So let's take a look at the sentence that Lü Xiucai said to Li Dazui in the wulin biography, if you can really choose two together, although this sentence is not finished, and finally guo Furong beat up, but Lu Xiucai really has such capital.
In ancient times, whether it was Xiucai or an official in the imperial court, the authority given was almost infinitely magnified, and this part of the authority can be called privilege.
For example, Xiucai can not kneel after seeing the official, and even Xiucai can be exempted from the family's taxes, and xiucai can marry several concubines.
Point 2: In ancient times, it was not three wives and four concubines, but monogamous and polygamous concubines
We must always understand that in ancient times, men were allowed to marry several different wives, but it was not allowed for every man to marry many wives, nor was it allowed for a man to have three wives and four concubines.
The so-called three wives and four concubines is just an exaggerated adjective, and it is absolutely impossible to take this sentence seriously.
In ancient times, the implementation of the system of primogeniture succession, and this system was generally implemented by the relatives of the emperor, the dignitaries and dignitaries, and even the officials in the imperial court, if it was a hereditary official, Lao Tzu died, the son, the son was generally the eldest son.
Therefore, in order to ensure the order of the elderly and the young, and more importantly, to maintain the rule of the empire, monogamy is particularly necessary.
And the polygamous system behind monogamy is a privilege given to some people, and this privilege is not so easy to obtain, just like we said before, an ordinary person wants to marry a few concubines, it is not to think about it.
Point 3: The original intention of marrying a concubine
Of course, for most cases, whether it is marrying a concubine or having multiple wives, it is often a privilege given by the imperial court to certain people.
Excluding these privileges, it is actually allowed to marry a second or third wife, the main purpose of which is to pass on the lineage.
After all, in ancient times, there was such a saying: no filial piety has three, and no queen is greater.
On this point, Qi Jiguang must have a deep understanding, after all, Qi Jiguang's wife did not have a child when she was young.
For this reason, Qi Jiguang also once held left and right, and it was not easy to sneak the Golden House hidden jiao, but it was still discovered by his wife.
Someone asked, Qi Jiguang did not seem to be wrong to do this thing, at that time, polygamy and polygamy system was applicable anyway.
But be aware that Qi Jiguang's wife is a fierce person.
It is said that when Qi Jiguang's wife knew that her husband had hidden a concubine outside, she ran to Qi Jiguang's camp without saying a word with a large knife.
If it were not for Qi Jiguang's quick reaction, coupled with the sweet mouth, and the use of inheritance as a guide, or Qi Jiguang's life tragedy would have come to an abrupt end.
Therefore, it is not difficult for us to find that for the vast majority of ancient men, marrying a concubine is actually extremely difficult, and its main response is still the wife's jealousy, which is far less simple than we think.
But from another point of view, some wives very much hope that their husbands can marry a concubine.
It is not that these wives are willing to share with others, nor is it that they will not compete for the wind and jealousy, but one of the main reasons is to pass on the generations.
This is also one of the nightmares of countless ancient people, after all, in ancient times there were no heirs, it was simply a great rebellion.
So from this point of view, I will continue to tell you that some wives in ancient times actively encouraged their husbands to marry a concubine, is it also reasonable?
That's right, for good reason.
Why is the wife willing to do this?
Because they can't have children.
However, people in ancient times may not have the thinking cognition, and not being able to give birth to children is not necessarily a matter for the wife, but it may also be a matter for the husband.
It's just that during the reign of the feudal dynasty, it was difficult to fully understand this concept, because there was no modern medicine at that time, and of course, ancient Chinese medicine was also very good, but if this matter continued to be involved, it would be too far off the topic.
Point 4: The status of concubines is very low
We should pay attention to the fact that monogamy was normal in ancient marriage relationships, and polygamy was also normal. But no concubine would dare to say anything about this man's wife, otherwise the rules would have been broken.
Ancient women were willing to give up some of their interests, whether it was to pass on the generations, or to control the public opinion at that time, or for other reasons, but this part of the women did not dare to give up all their interests.
In other words, to give you some benefits is almost enough, don't kick your nose in the face.
So although they allowed their husbands to find a few concubines, the status of concubines was far inferior to that of their wives.
There is no grade between the two at all, as a TV series says, this person is a concubine, even if it is a litter of children, it is only a litter of children.
Concubines have no right or opportunity to compete with their wives for the wind and jealousy, and they absolutely cannot fight with their wives for rights. In the future, only the wife and her children will inherit the inheritance.
You can imagine the empresses and concubines in the harem of the ancient emperors, none of them have the right to fight with the empress, unless the empress is not an empress, otherwise, the empress in the harem has the final say.
Of course, if there is an empress dowager or an empress dowager, and these two are more tough, then I did not say.
Therefore, for ancient times, as long as it is a concubine who takes the formal process, the average wife will not say anything more.
But if the concubine fights for power or for something that does not belong to the concubine, the wife may only need to move her mouth to make the concubine's previous efforts be abandoned.
During the reign of the feudal dynasty, no one could take a concubine casually. If you want to take a concubine, you also have to take the meritorious name, and ordinary people, even businessmen, do not have this qualification.