During the period of feudal rule in our country, polygamy was always practiced in terms of the marriage system, and the status of women in marriage was very low. If there is money in a family, the husband can marry many wives, and if he wants to divorce his wife, he can divorce his wife at will, which are the deep-rooted ideas left by the feudal system in our country for more than five thousand years.
Not only can the emperor have countless concubines in the three palaces and six courtyards, but even ordinary people can have many concubines. The children born of concubines will not be taken seriously at home, and the mother of Tan Yanmin, a famous politician in China, is a housewife. Her mother had not been able to eat until he had won the examination, and his mother could not sit down to eat.
In ancient times, a family not only had wives and concubines, but also many concubines who were inferior to concubines, just a tool for passing on the generations. The children born to the wife are the concubines in the family, and are valued by the family, except for the children born by the wife, if the children born in the concubines or through the room are all concubines, they will be born one head lower than the concubines.
As the saying goes, the mother is precious by her son, and if the concubines in the palace give birth to a very good and competitive prince, then her second half of her body will inevitably be dressed and clothed. If the child born can successfully ascend to the throne, it is even more able to take the throne and the empress dowager, and the right to increase the body. In ordinary people's homes, if the children born in the concubine room are very competitive, it can also enhance the status of the concubine.
Large families not only have many wives and concubines, but also many housewives who are responsible for passing on the generations. A housekeeper is a servant who can take care of the rough work in the family and serve the master to sleep. Tan Yanmin's mother used to be a housekeeper, because she was good-looking and very intelligent, so she won the appreciation of this family.
At first, she was just a handmaiden who took care of the elderly in the family, because she received the love of Tan Yanmin's grandmother, and later became a room maid, which was also an opportunity for her promotion. Before giving birth to Tan Yanmin, her status in the family was very low, and she could only stand by her master's side and wait. Although she had a certain credit after Tan Yanmin was born, she was still not eligible to eat at the table.
The Tan family was a very famous family at the end of the Qing Dynasty, and the education in the family was very advanced. Although the educational resources of concubines and concubines are different, in general, the education of the Tan family is higher than that of others. Father Tan especially liked this son, although he was a son, the local government must also give him the best education.
Not only that, Tan Father Benli was a famous literary scholar at the end of the Qing Dynasty, so he was very strict with his children's reading culture and often personally inquired about their homework. Tan Yanmin is also the most similar to his father among the brothers, and the perfect inheritance of his father's good genes, not only write a good handwriting, but also accumulate a wealth of knowledge and culture.
Tan Yanmin himself is very good at learning, without too many people's constraints, he himself has a heart of curiosity, so Tan Father also likes him very much. Until Tan Yanmin grew up, he was already full of economy, so he went to take the imperial examination to prove himself. In ancient times, the examination of the best level during the imperial examination, many people used the middle of the people to honor the ancestors.
Although the Tan family does not need this person to shine on the lintel, it is also an affirmation of this literary family to be able to lift people. At the age of twenty-four, Tan Yanmin took the last imperial examination of the Qing Dynasty, after which the imperial examination was banned. And Tan Yanmin also became the last imperial examination soldier, and after learning that it was a news, the whole family was very happy.
Tan Yanmin's name spread throughout the imperial court immediately, and everyone also knew that this jinshi was the son of Tan Lao, and the officials also praised Tan Lao's ability to educate children, tiger father without dogs, Tan Lao was very proud and proud to hear these words. This is the case with a mother and a child, because of the excellence of her own child, the status of his mother has also been correspondingly improved.
Previously, Tan Yanmin's mother was only a handmaiden in the family, and although she gave birth to a son, her identity did not change. Moreover, the affairs of the family are all around her, especially when eating, she is never qualified to eat at the table, and can only stand by her side to serve. But now that his son has been promoted to the rank of jinshi, Tan's father is also extra kind, improving his mother's status.
Tan Yanmin's mother has no name, but people will honor her as Lady Li, and normal concubines will not have such an honorific title, not to mention that her mother is just a housewife. However, because of Tan Yanmin's move, people will also be more polite to Mrs. Li. Father Tan also officially told Lady Li that she could eat at the table, and from then on, Lady Li also became a concubine with the highest status, second only to the wife of the main house.
From this story, it can be seen that Father Tan is a very corrupt person, and he insists on the idea of honor and inferiority, which makes Mrs. Li stand at the table for twenty-four years. However, compared with Father Tan, Tan Yanmin is a very open-minded person, so he has been actively asking for the power she deserves for his mother, but this wish was not realized until he won the Jinshi.
At the end of the Qing Dynasty, many ministers in the court were actively seeking reforms to find a way out for the decadent Qing government at that time. But Father Tan was one of the most typical royalists, and he resolutely refused to accept reformism. Tan Yanmin, who received Western education from an early age, was a very advanced thinker, and as an official of the Qing government, he actively sought the path of improvement and stood against his father.
Although the reform of the Qing government ended in failure, Tan Yanmin did not give up, and during the Republic of China, he became an aspiring government official, once again actively exerting his revenge in the political arena.
Tan Yanmin grew up in a feudal family, and he knew that his mother had been wronged, so he respected women very much. Tan Yanmin once took a wife, but then his wife died of illness, and he was not getting married, let alone marrying a concubine. Because of his growing environment and education from an early age, he became a very advanced literati.
Nowadays, people's thinking in society has changed greatly, and equality between men and women has become something that people have been pursuing. With the efforts of all people, the status of women has gradually improved, and I hope that one day women will be able to talk with men on a truly equal footing.