"Six kings Bi, four seas and one; ShuShan Wu, A Fang out." Covering more than 300 miles, isolating the day and day"——Du Mu's "A Fang Gong Fu"
Qin Shi Huang swept the world, destroyed the six kingdoms, and unified the four seas, which has not been tasted since ancient times, and the five emperors have not been able to reach, as the first emperor to realize the great unification of the country, his name is well known. In the eyes of future generations, he was an emperor who was difficult to say whether he was good or bad, and even was evaluated as a tyrant, he spent 39 years to build the mausoleum of Qin Shi Huang, recruited 720,000 people, and when he built the Afang Palace, the trees in Shudi were cut down, covering an area of more than 300 miles, isolating the days and days.
Qin Shi Huang later became a tyrant in the eyes of the people, but unlike other feudal dynasties, in his time, although there was still a phenomenon of male superiority and female inferiority, it gave women a marriage privilege, in this matter, women can break free from the shackles of male superiority and female inferiority, but it has been forbidden, even now, it is not suitable for use.
From 356 BC to 350 BC, the Shang Martingale Transformation Law was implemented during the Qin Xiaogong period, and many people thought that the Qin Dynasty had always been a typical example of the "severe punishment law", but in fact, carefully considered, their marriage law was not completely adapted to the provisions of the war, and there was also a side of leniency and humanity. At the same time, the change of law also has two purposes, one is to increase taxes, and the other is to change customs.
In order to achieve these two purposes, it is stipulated: "It is forbidden to make the father, son, and brother of the people sleep together." "At that time, the people of the Qin Kingdom lived together as a whole family, but such a mixed population and mixed male and female living also brought many social problems. So this law was promulgated, allowing men to separate their families when they reached adulthood, that is, to establish a family.
But the separation of the family has caused a dilemma of the people, in order to marry a wife, just like now to buy another house, so many children, large families can still be divided, then the poorer people can not share the family of the people what to do? The State of Qin also had another policy, which was recorded in the Biography of Jia Yi: "Therefore, the rich sons of the Qin family are divided, and the poor sons of the family are rich. "If the poor don't have the money to marry their daughters-in-law separately, they can actually get into the money."
However, the status of "son-in-law" in ancient times was not high, and the ancients recorded: "One said, rich, qualitative, poor and wealthy, with a hostage." In other words, if they did not have money to marry their daughter-in-law and could not even afford to give the dowry, they would take themselves hostage. In the "Explanation of The Explanation of Words": "With money to receive things to know the money, to receive money to know the quality", the average man, if the family conditions allow, will never go to be a son-in-law, because the son-in-law's status is low, it is still extremely disgraceful, unless the woman's family is rich, or powerful, the man may be willing to try.
In 210 BC, Qin Shi Huang asked Li Si to write an inscription with a total of 289 characters on it, known as "Huiji Carved Stone". Here he made more specific provisions on marriage: "Prevent the separation of inside and outside, prohibition of adultery, and sincerity of men and women." Husband for the sending of the horse, killing the innocent, male Bingyi Cheng. ”
The first point is that for ordinary couples, husband and wife cannot cheat in marriage, when the wife is still alive and the husband is still alive, men and women cannot do things that are sorry for each other, otherwise they will be convicted, and Qin Shi Huang actually has a little similarity with the current marriage law in this provision. He would pay attention to the marriage law at that time, which may be related to his mother, Zhao Ji, the mother of Qin Shi Huang, who was absurd and promiscuous, and once left him to be with Concubine Yi, so Qin Shi Huang hated such a thing to happen again, and during the period when he had power, he took this as a legal provision.
Among them, he also gave women a special right, that is, "the husband is not guilty of killing", and the "husband is innocent of killing", which refers to those men who have entered the pile, for these men, they are like a pig in the pigsty, if they do anything cheating in the marriage, then the wife has the right to kill him.
There was no such rule for men, and for these women, Qin Shi Huang gave them special rights, and even gave them the power to kill and kill, but by the Time of the Han Dynasty, this privilege was abolished. In ancient times, it was used in its historical sense, but in the present, it is unfair to treat men.