In the history of ancient China, there are countless famous emperors, and Genghis Khan of the Mongol tribes is particularly special. Genghis Khan was born into a nomadic ethnic group, excelled at horseback hunting, and was brave and good at war.
Outstanding military ability and heroic and good fighting style are known as "a generation of natural pride".
Throughout the Chinese style of emperors, they are all praised. Genghis Khan is the same, with a good reputation. His supporters called him the preeminent military man, the heroic Baturu.
Those who did not like him called him a generation of puppets, who knew only force, violent conquest.
However, it is such a historical figure who has a special habit of loving people's wives.
According to historical records, Genghis Khan had 40-50 wives and concubines in the course of his conquests, which still has specific names, and in the records compiled by the Persians, Genghis Khan even had hundreds of concubines, and many of these concubines were already wives.
As an emperor, the three palaces and six courts were just the norm, which was beyond reproach, but if they robbed others of their wives for their own amusement, it was a great insult, so many concubines committed suicide after being humiliated because they could not bear it, which became a reason for posterity to criticize Genghis Khan. So why did Genghis Khan love his wife so much? In fact, there are two reasons, one is the emotional reason of Genghis Khan, and the other is related to the customs and social structure of the nomadic peoples.
First of all, on the emotional level, as a wandering herdsman who grew up eating a hundred meals, Genghis Khan has not received the love of his parents since he was a child, which gives him a strong and brave character, but also makes him extremely lack of love, so that he has created a hidden Oedipal complex, and the docile maternal brilliance of his wife is the filling of his complex. What's more, the hearts of the nomads are full of wild desire to fight and conquer, and the snatching of people's wives is a complete conquest in their eyes.
Secondly, in terms of society, in fact, nomadic people do not have strict ethical shackles like the traditional Han people, they do not divide the clans according to blood but according to the region, and live by water and grass, which is doomed to the blood relations of various tribes are very loose, coupled with the fact that tribes often launch wars for resources, robbing women from other tribes as booty is the norm, and how can they care whether this woman is married or not.
And because of the shortage of fertility resources, there is also an incredible "succession marriage" system in the Mongol Empire, once a man in the family dies in battle, then his wife will be inherited by his father or brother, and even the wives of his own relatives can inherit and occupy, so robbing other people's wives is not a big deal.
It is just that many women of the agrarian people, with stricter ethical and moral concepts, are suddenly insulted by this, and in anger, they would rather keep the festival and commit suicide than live.
It is not uncommon to marry people
In fact, in the development of history, It is not only Genghis Khan who likes to forcibly occupy other people's wives, but also the most well-known Cao Cao in the Three Kingdoms era, who has married many wives in his lifetime and is extremely pampered, and his son Cao Pi has also seized other people's wives Zhen Mi. The mink cicada among the four beauties was also forcibly taken by Dong Zhuo after marrying Lü Bu. Earlier, in the Western Han Dynasty, The Empress Dowager Wang of the Han Jing Emperor Liu Qi was also married to The Jin Dynasty sun and had a daughter.
It can be seen from this that in the early feudal society, it was still relatively common to marry other people's wives. However, with the development of society, in the Tang and Song dynasties, the ethical shackles were tightened more and more, and the ancient female emperor Wu Zetian, who was originally a concubine of Tang Taizong, had a secret affair with Li Zhi, and had to wait for Tang Taizong's death to cut his hair into a Niqing Lantern Ancient Buddha before successfully marrying Li Zhi. As for the Song Dynasty, it is difficult to see stories of marrying other people's wives.
Historical figures are concrete and three-dimensional, they are not perfect, and "the honorable or exaggerated, the destroyer or the damage", especially for a controversial figure like Genghis Khan, who is an iron-blooded emperor, a military genius, and a generous and benevolent politician, who has achievements that are unattainable by others, and also has strange hobbies that we think are difficult to be elegant, but it is precisely in this way that his image is more vivid.
What's more, the evaluation of historical figures cannot be separated from the social environment and humanistic atmosphere in which he lives, and in our view, robbing people's wives is so incorruptible and shameful, but in the macroscopic background of the times, this is a perfectly normal thing, how to find the scale of commentary between reality and history, it is exactly what we should think about.