Where is the Yan Kingdom?
Hebei, Tianjin, Inner Mongolia, Liaoning and other majorities or parts of the region, mainly concentrated in north China, after the King of Zhou Wu destroyed the Shang, sealed his brother Ji Yi (pronounced "yes") in Yandi, spread the country for more than 800 years, the heyday, the territory area reached 200,000 square kilometers, it can be said that throughout the Spring and Autumn Warring States period, it is a existence that cannot be ignored, a proper old princely state, the old princely states mean "keeping etiquette", what kind of debauched customs will it leave behind?
The Book of Han and Geography has clouds: Northeast Youzhou... Its sharp fish, salt; one man and three women. What do you mean? Yanguo used to be called Youzhou, Ancient Youzhou, this place is rich in fish, salt, the ratio of men and women is 1:3, compared to Yangzhou's 2:5, Qingzhou's 2:3, and even Jingzhou's 1:2, Yongzhou's 3:2, Jizhou's 5:3, the ratio of men to women is seriously unbalanced, typical women more men and less men, in ancient times, women's status was not high, and now it is typical of women and men, the consequence is naturally that in Youzhou, that is, on the ground of Yanguo, women are more likely to be despised, and it is precisely because of such contempt for women It also laid the groundwork for the emergence of such a debauched custom in the future.
More than 800 years after the yan kingdom was passed on to the 43rd emperor, Yan Wang Xi, who did nothing in history, but he had a great son, that is, the famous Prince Dan of Yan in history.
The Chronicle of the Assassins has a cloud: King Zheng of Qin was born in Zhao, and his youth was with Dan Qi. and Zheng Li was the King of Qin, while Dan was in Qin. The King of Qin met Prince Dan of Yan, who was not good, so Dan resented and died, and returned to the king of Qin.
Yin Zheng was born in the Zhao Kingdom, and when he was a teenager, he was good to Prince Dan of Yan, and when Yin Zheng was made the King of Qin, Prince Dan of Yan went to the Qin State as a hostage. The King of Qin was not friendly to Prince Dan of Yan, so Prince Dan of Yan fled due to resentment, and when he returned, he sought a way to take revenge on Prince Yingzheng of Qin, but the problem was that the Qin state was strong and the poor people of the Yan state were weak, in this case, Prince Dan of Yan took what to fight with The government, want to come and go, the bright can not come to the dark, the right can not come to the evil, "the warrior of the world made Yu Qin" and then "thus assassinated", in short, send assassins to assassinate Yingzheng, and after the great Qin Shi Huang, but where to find this assassin?
As we all know, Prince Dan of Yan chose Jing Ke after that, but before Jing Ke, Prince Dan of Yan spent a lot of effort in order to find a suitable candidate.
The "Book of Han and Geography Chronicle" says this matter in more detail, that is, in the beginning, Prince Danbin raised warriors and did not love harem beauties. Only like the warrior, do not like the beauty, and in order to get the favor of the warrior, but also sacrifice the beauty, the more famous story is that when Prince Dan of Yan just got Jing Ke, it was very happy, it was simply a small feast of three days, a big feast of five days, but also to Jing Ke thoughtful, everything should be, once, Jing Ke felt that a ge Ji's hand was very good-looking, accidentally exaggerated, that night, Prince Dan of Yan sent this Ge Ji's hand over.
Ge Ji's hand was sent over, then Ge Ji, of course, it was painful to faint, because this pair of hands were cut off by Prince Dan of Yan, just imagine, the prince of a country has this attitude towards women, so in the Country of Yan, what status does a woman have to speak of!
Later, although Jing Ke failed to stab Qin and failed to live up to everyone's expectations, Prince Dan of Yan became a hero of the praises of later generations because of his resistance to the violent Qin, the good ones on the top and the next will be very bad, and the story of Prince Dan of Yan was passed down in this way, and the consequence was that the Yan Kingdom originally despised women, and now there is the story of Prince Dan of Yan, so "the people take it as customary", and the common people have evolved the practice of Prince Dan of Yan into a custom, a custom of debauchery.
That is, it is recorded in the "Book of Han and Geography": Guests pass by and stay with women. When guests came to the house, they were to stay with a woman, not only not ashamed, but also proud, and "still the same."
The Book of Han was written in the Eastern Han Dynasty, and it is still "still the same" during the Eastern Han Dynasty, which is enough to show that this debauched custom left by the Yan State has prevailed in North China for hundreds of years.
For hundreds of years, this is a very terrible number, they despise women can be despised to such a point, "Xunzi · Strong Country" has a cloud: entry, look at its customs, just because the customs are so debauched, so at that time, north China, was regarded as "foolish, less worried, frivolous and powerless".
Because of the "customs that must be investigated first for the sake of government", this kind of debauched customs is naturally regarded as a mess, and after the Eastern Han Dynasty, it was gradually thrown into the garbage heap of history, and since then, the status of women has improved slightly, but the distance is completely equal, and the poor ancestors do not know how long a road to go!
References: "History", "Book of Han", "History of Marriage in China", etc