Marriage age of women in ancient China
In ancient times, living conditions were backward, and the average life expectancy of ancient people was generally low. It is understandable that ancient people married earlier, what was the age of marriage in ancient China? Most women in ancient China were supposed to be married between the ages of 13 and 20. There are a few things that can be learned from the following records:
1. "Han Feizi": Men are twenty and roomy, and women are fifteen and married.
2. The Yue king Gou Jian once stipulated: "If a woman does not marry seventeen, her parents are guilty." If a husband does not marry twenty years, his parents are guilty."
3. In the early years of Emperor Taizong's Zhenguan, it was stipulated that "those who have no husband in the male twenty and females above fifteen shall be married by courtesy in the prefecture and county."
Saharawi women's marital age
In Sanmao's "The Story of the Sahara", the travelogue of the "Doll Bride" records that the heroine Guka married at the age of 10, and her father Handi thought that she was not small, and Guka's mother was also Handi's wife, who was only 8 years old when she married.
It should be known that Sanmao settled in the Spanish Sahara in 1973, that is, in the Spanish Sahara, she married Jose, that is, she was 30 years old. Gu Ka was married at the age of 10 under the arrangement of her parents, this contrast is inevitably too surprising and sad, the 10-year-old girl is also the fourth grade of primary school, and the 8-year-old girl is only two years old. In the dialogue between Sanmao and the 10-year-old Guka, Sanmao deeply felt that the 10-year-old Guka was reluctant to get married and helpless, and she herself was also very disgusted. Under the pressure of customs, everything stops at acquiescence, and the most ruthless ones are still in the back of the kiss and cave, which is really unacceptable.
Marriage age of Japanese women after World War II
After the Second World War, Japan suffered a lot of attrition, and the government lowered the marriage age of women to 13 years old in order to encourage fertility and promote the population, which was already appalling. Even under the scorching heat of the war, there is no such exaggerated age of marriage, Saharawi women are really tortured, do not enjoy innocence and childishness, do not get princess-like love, the body is not fully developed, but have to bear the responsibility of adulthood.
Unacceptable kissing and cave room
It is said that the Saharawis used to ride camels, empty guns, and go to tents, but now that it is the 1980s, jeeps replace camels, horns replace empty guns, and the noise remains the same, noisy as ever.
Kissing is probably like robbing a kiss, the groom and his friend roughly drag, pull, drag, twist, beat the bride, and then the bride resists and is snatched away in crying. In their customs, strong struggle and resistance are good women.
Crying cave house. When a bunch of relatives and friends sit in the living room, waiting outside the door, the groom enters the back room to perform the crying ceremony on the bride, which is actually the wedding night profiteering to deprive the little girl of her virginity. Think of a 10-year-old girl, a group of friends and family celebrating in the living room, but she is spending her wedding night with a cry and a scream. When the groom came out of the back room with a towel with blood, the jubilant boiling sound reached a climax.
Disappointment and sadness
Lively weddings, everything does not feel wonderful, is this not funny, not sad? Won't customs go to their dross and leave their essence?