Looking at China's thousands of years of Chinese history, it is not difficult for us to find that whenever the Central Plains Dynasty re-ushered in the era of great unification, China's world status is impressive, and its comprehensive national strength is also eye-catching in the World on the Asian continent, and its status cannot be shaken! The small neighboring countries were all afraid of China's strength and prosperity, and they sent envoys to perform the "courtesy of subordinates" and enshrine China as the suzerainty. It can be said that since the Qin and Han Dynasties, China has had many vassal states, such as the well-known Korea, Vietnam, Japan and other countries, in ancient times they all "called the Central Plains Dynasty", were canonized by China, and were given seals by the Chinese emperor.
As the suzerainty of the nations, Chinese rulers mostly treat the vassal states with an attitude of "those who come do not refuse, and the king does not rule Yidi", in order to show the wealth and generosity of the "heavenly kingdom", often in the spirit of "thin and thick exchanges", a large number of rewards are given to the tributes. To this end, the peaceful international relations maintained by the Huayi order ran through the entire ancient feudal history, until the intensification of China's internal and external troubles after the Opium War, these countries were successively occupied or controlled by the great powers, and finally all of them broke away from their vassal relations with China. The vast majority of the countries after independence have established peaceful and friendly diplomatic relations with China, only this country was once China's territory, but it has not yet established diplomatic relations with China, and the marriage system is even more unimaginable!
That country is Bhutan, which borders our country. Bhutan, also known as the Kingdom of Bhutan, is an inland mountain country located in the southern foothills of the Himalayas between China and India, bordering China in the east, north and northwest, and India in the west and south (belonging to the southern bottom of the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau). Bhutan is a small country with an area of only 38,000 square kilometers (equivalent to 1/252 of China's) and a population of about 800,000. The main ethnic group of the Bhutanese state is the Bhutanese ethnic group, which also includes a part of the Nepalese ethnic group, and its national system is modeled on the European constitutional monarchy, with the king as the head of state.
What is less well known is that although Bhutan is relatively "distant" from China, it was once Chinese territory in history, and Bhutan was a Tubo (Tibet) territory in the 8th century AD, and after the Yuan Dynasty unified the world, it was also included in the Territory of China and was under the jurisdiction of the Xuanzheng Yuan. In 1372, Bhutan's Paju regime II, Shakya Gyaltsen, was enthroned as an initiation by the Ming Dynasty of China and sent to the imperial court the following year. Subsequently, the Ming Dynasty crowned the Fifth Emperor Sidzhaba Gyaltsen as the King of Interpretation, and since then it has become a custom, and the Bhutanese kingdom has been subject to the Central Plains Dynasty for hundreds of years. Eventually, during the Qing Dynasty, Bhutan became independent and became a vassal state of our country.
As a small country in southern Asia, Bhutan has few historical details, and the earliest mention of the present-day Bhutan region is during the Tubo Songtsen Gampo period, when the Tubo king Songtsen Gampo ordered people to build two monasteries in present-day central Bhutan and Palo Dzong to introduce Tibetan Buddhism to Bhutan. At that time, Bhutan's primitive tribes were numerous, and there was no independent name, until the Qing Dynasty, Bhutan was translated as "Brookeba" in Chinese historical books. Because Bhutan has been "called Phan Na Gong" for nearly a thousand years, it is deeply influenced by traditional Chinese culture, their living habits are similar to those of Chinese, and they also love to eat dumplings.
Among them, the state of Bhutan, which became a vassal state of China, was canonized by the Chinese emperor at the same time, and at the same time, it represented the image of the Ninth Five-Year Plan for China, and the people of Bhutan greatly respected the Chinese dragon. It is believed that the dragon is one of the four spirits, an auspicious animal, in charge of thunderstorms, which will bring people wind and rain. At the same time, Bhutan is located in the foothills of the Himalayas, with constant thunder and thunder all year round, and Bhutanese believe that it is the roar of the dragon and has infinite power. Therefore, the Bhutanese call their country the "land of the dragon" and use the dragon as the main motif of their national flag, and the white dragon palm beads seem to take off. It should be noted that the dragon on the flag of Bhutan strictly adheres to the specifications of the Chinese vassal state, using a four-clawed white dragon, which is a sign of the level of the king of the clan, while the five-clawed golden dragon can only be used by the Chinese emperor.
In this way, at the end of the Qing Dynasty, Bhutan became the target of its operations as the British continued to penetrate into South Asia. After the Opium War, the Qing Dynasty was overwhelmed by itself, and the British felt that the time was ripe to accelerate the invasion of Bhutan. In 1865, Bhutan was forced to sign an unequal treaty with Britain, the Treaty of Sinchura, which not only lost a large part of its territory in the south, but was also forced to open border crossings. After the successful British invasion, Bhutan was included in its sphere of influence to "direct" Bhutan's foreign affairs. In addition, the British frequently intervened in Bhutan's internal affairs, for example, in 1907, when Ujan Wangchuk was elected king, he received the approval of the British.
After the end of World War II, the world ushered in a wave of national liberation and independence, and Britain had to withdraw from South Asia. In 1949, Bhutan and India signed the "Permanent Treaty of Peace and Friendship", which mainly stated that India was responsible for guiding Bhutan's internal and foreign affairs and interfering in Bhutan's political affairs, and India became Bhutan's largest donor and creditor country. In a sense, India is equivalent to Bhutan's "Emperor Taishang", and the latter is not a completely independent country. And everyone knows that China's relations with India, due to India's interference, china has been unable to establish diplomatic relations with this country that was once a Chinese territory and vassal state.
Today, we know the most about this Bhutanese country located in the Himalayas, Bhutan is a least developed country in Asia, its economic level is in a backward position in the world, and Bhutan's economic construction relies heavily on foreign and international assistance. However, it is such a particularly poor country, and their spiritual world is particularly rich, and every year it is rated as the happiest country in the world. The people of Bhutan will feel particularly poor in terms of our current standard of living, but the people of Bhutan enjoy it, it is like a paradise.
Although Bhutan is deeply influenced by our culture, its marriage system is unique and unimaginable. In Bhutan, women have a noble status, even higher than men, and can be called the pillar of the family. This may be related to its particular institution of marriage, which practises "polygamy" and "polygamy". In some places, "polygamy" means that several brothers in a family marry a daughter-in-law, often the eldest married, and other brothers are not allowed to remarry. In other places , "polygamy " is practised , stipulating that a man may have a maximum of three wives and that the consent of the first wife must be obtained before marrying a new wife , otherwise he cannot marry again.
In 1980, the Royal Government of Bhutan enacted the Marriage Act for such a marriage system, declaring monogamy, abolishing polygamy and polygamy, and establishing that the age of legal marriage is 21 years for men and 16 years for women. However, due to historical reasons, Bhutan has not yet eliminated this phenomenon, many rich people still marry more than two wives, and the phenomenon of polyandry still exists in the northern part of Bhutan. Marriages between men and women in Bhutan are usually arranged by their parents, paying attention to the words of the matchmaker, and marriages are mostly arranged by the parents.
Finally, we would like to say that although Bhutan is the happiest country in the world, Bhutan's marriage system is really unimaginable. In the face of Bhutan, which was once Chinese territory, although China has not yet established diplomatic relations with Bhutan, the relations between the two sides have always been friendly, and the border areas between the two countries have generally maintained a state of peace and tranquility. In recent years, with the opening of Bhutan's popularity, more and more Chinese travel to the country, and it is believed that in the near future, the relationship between the two countries will usher in a substantial leap forward.