In fact, at first, it was because it was too tiring for the mother to raise the child herself. It is not easy for them to have children, and after giving birth to children, they have to breastfeed their daughters or sons personally, which is indeed a bit difficult.
For some poor families, of course, to be able to endure is to be able to endure. But those big families, especially those who pay great attention to the rules, will certainly not let their main mother feed themselves, so hiring a nursing lady is the best choice.
Moreover, if the main mother feeds herself, it means that it is difficult for her to maintain a good figure, and ancient times were an era that paid great attention to rules and images. If you can't sit well because of raising your children, it is indeed possible to cause rapid deformation of your body.
I believe that many girls should have contact with this, or understand it! More girls may have experienced it directly, so physical rehabilitation training after giving birth is more important.
In addition, it is these large families that come from families, and the girls themselves have no ability to take care of themselves. Due to the relatively low status of women in ancient Chinese society, they were filled with large and small beards in various large households, and they were usually responsible for serving the noble daughters in their own families.
And those women who are from noble births have no life experience from childhood to adulthood, because they have always been taken care of, they can't even support themselves, they can't take care of themselves, what ability can they take care of their children? Therefore, finding a nursing mother or a maid to serve your children has become the best choice.
Over time, hiring a wet nurse also became a symbol of power. Because not all women can become nurses, they must first be well trained and have a wealth of experience in raising children.
The higher the family, the higher the requirements for the nursing mother, and gradually the nursing mother has become a very popular profession, and even in the palace, there are some nursing mothers with relatively high status. Some nursing mothers have also raised the emperor's sons, and some have finally become emperors by virtue of the princes they raised, and the examples of soaring to the sky, such as the emperor of the Apocalypse, the milk lady Keshi.
In the homes of the ancient dignitaries, they would specially hire nursing mothers, and even some of the richer ones would specially raise a large number of nursing ladies to raise their offspring, and nursing ladies have become a symbol of status. Therefore, many rich families will also choose to hire some milkmaids with rich experience after they have just made their debut, which is to swear to the outside world that they have completed the class leap, from the original landlords to the upper class.
In fact, the society of the ancient feudal dynasty had a certain respect for women engaged in the profession of nursing mother. They are in a higher position in their master's home than their subordinates, only second only to their masters. There are some who have a good relationship with their masters and can even have an impact on the whole country, such as the Apocalypse Emperor's Milk Lady Keshi that I mentioned earlier.
But in fact, from the perspective of the royal family, there is another important reason for hiring a nursing lady, that is, to avoid women from interfering in politics. Because as early as the Qin and Han Dynasties, there were cases of women interfering in politics, such as several empresses of Qin, and empresses of the Western Han Dynasty, and in later generations, there were even such people as Wu Zetian who simply directly called themselves emperors.
Therefore, many royal families of feudal dynasties are still more wary of concubines in the harem. At the time of the founding of the Ming Dynasty, Zhu Yuanzhang also directly established an iron rule that women could not interfere in politics. But there is still no way to prevent women from exerting their influence in the upper ruling system of china's ancient feudal dynasty.
Especially those who have given birth to princes, or even their own sons, can become the emperor's concubines, and their desire for power will become more inflated in the future. Therefore, in the Western Han Dynasty and even during the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms period, there was even a bad habit that if her own children could ascend the throne in the future, the mother of the would-be emperor must die.
Although such bad habits were replaced later with the continuous development of the times, the upper rulers of the feudal dynasties still had a high degree of vigilance against women's interference in politics.
In order to avoid this, a tradition arose that the prince who was born could not be raised by her own mother herself, but by the nursing mother. The aim was to prevent her mother from using her son to exert influence over the Situation.
Such a method proved to be very clever, because since Wu Zetian, there has not been a single female emperor in The history of China. Although harem interference incidents have occurred frequently, the frequency of occurrence has been effectively controlled.
However, such a means also brings new problems, that is, the status of the nursing mother has been greatly improved. Because the nursing mother replaced the position of the crown mother, the prince grew up with his own nursing mother from childhood to adulthood, so naturally he was greatly affected by the nursing mother.
This also directly led to the emperor's fainting, for example, in the middle and late Ming Dynasty, there were many emperors who were very faint, but sometimes they really could not blame them. They grew up in the hands of handmaidens and eunuchs, and even some emperors did not receive any good education.
In the end, they can become emperors only because of the nobility of their bloodlines, so how can they be expected to become Ming Emperors after they ascend the throne? Those emperors who grew up in the hands of eunuchs and palace women had a hard time having a good ending in the end.
Nowadays, with the continuous development of the times, the profession of nursing mother has gradually disappeared in society, but it is not completely non-existent, because there are many special confinement centers everywhere in society. It still exists because people are too busy to take care of their children.
But children can not only eat milk powder, breast milk is the best for children, because it contains a lot of trace elements. And if you eat breast milk, the child's body will form a very special protective layer, which can prevent the invasion of most germs, which can become one of the important guarantees for the child to grow up safely during childhood. Therefore, in the case of being busy and unable to eat milk powder, it is understandable to hire a nurse.