At present, the legal age of marriage in china is 20 years old for women and 22 years for men, which is the earliest age of marriage in China that has been constantly changed. If we look at the age of young men and women who married and had children in ancient times in our country, it is absolutely illegal.
In ancient times, if a woman did not marry at the age of 18, she belonged to an old girl, because the whole society adhered to the marriage rules of 14 and 15-year-old engagement and 16-year-old marriage.
Moreover, there were many child brides in ancient China. The girls were bought by the man's family from an early age, and from an early age they were called to work, and at the age of thirteen, they could not escape the fate of marrying and having children. Born in modern society, due to the development of scientific and technological civilization, feminist consciousness has awakened, and women have paid more and more attention to their own status.
Coupled with the imbalance in the proportion of men and women in our country, the overall number of women is less than that of men, women's selection of another partner has become more stringent, although they are married at a very late age, but they have achieved economic independence, as the mind becomes more and more open, more and more girls say that they can live well and do not need the presence of men.
These situations in ancient times did not dare to think, if there is a woman who does not marry for life, she will definitely suffer from white eyes and sarcasm, and eventually die in depression with hatred. That's because at that time, feudal ideas were deeply rooted, and society only recognized the role of women's reproductive tools, and women could not show their faces at that time, but could only teach their children at home, in the final analysis, these were caused by disrespect for women.
Men can work, women can only marry
China is still a world-famous agricultural country, and in ancient times it was a real agrarian society. If a boy is born in the family, the whole family will be ecstatic, because the boy's innate strength is greater than that of the woman, and the boy who grows up can help the parents to do farm work for them.
If a girl is born, the whole family will dislike the woman and give birth to a drag oil bottle, and sell the daughter to other families as a child bride early. If they had money, they certainly wouldn't have sold their children, but these were all last resorts. They often did not have enough to eat and wear, and their heavy taxation and servitude caused each family to care about the gender of the children in the family.
If you are lucky enough to have a boy, after a while you can rely on a young and strong son to reduce your burden, and after giving birth to a daughter, you can only reduce the pressure by selling your daughter to others in exchange for a small amount of poor food and a meager dowry, enough to feed the family for a period of time.
Early marriage and early childbearing were supported by the whole society in ancient times, because in the traditional feudal thinking, heirs are very important things, and marrying wives and having children early is to prolong children and pass on the generations.
Fathers will not be reluctant to marry their daughters, usually they are reluctant to marry their mothers, but the father is the feudal patriarch, and the mother has no right to speak at home, and can only tearfully send her daughter to marry. If a woman struggles not to marry, she will eventually be tied up and will not be soft.
The level of ancient medical technology was low
The understanding of women's physiology is also very vague, and in ancient times, women's menstrual holidays were called sunflower water, and they regarded sunflower water as a sign of girls growing up. Even if the daughters of rich and noble families come to Aoishui, they will be arranged to betrothed.
Because of the rule that women can't show their faces, all the doctors are men, and they can still find ways to solve them. Once faced with gynecological problems, almost all male doctors do not want to diagnose women because of suspicion, and even if they are diagnosed, it is likely that they will not be able to be treated because of poor medical skills.
We often hear that women give birth to children is to go through the ghost gate, this is because the birth will be complicated by a series of gynecological problems, and most of the gynecological problems can not be cured at that time, lucky women can give birth smoothly, bad luck, it is likely to be unable to conceive children or even lose their lives.
Legally bound
The last reason is the most important reason, just like the current policy of our country stipulates the age of marriage for women, and there were also relevant national regulations in ancient times. The Northern Zhou Emperor Yuwen Yong once decreed that the age of marriage for women should not exceed twelve years old, otherwise they would be punished by the laws of the state.
In the prosperous Tang Dynasty, the marriage age of women was relaxed by two years compared with the Northern Zhou Dynasty, becoming 14 years old, and fourteen years old is still a naïve little girl in modern times, but in ancient times, she had to bear the task of procreation. During the Han Dynasty, the relevant punishment system was very harsh, and if a woman was still not married at the age of 15, she even had to pay five times the grain tax.
If you are lucky to be born in a rich family of daughters-in-law, you may be willing to pay a fine for your daughter because of the love of your parents, once born in a poor peasant family, the whole family has been living a hard life for many years, if you pay these five times the grain tax for your daughter, then the whole family will have to starve to death.
The children of the poor have long been in charge, and the daughters of the poor families are born to accept that they will be reduced to the tools of exchanging money for food in the future. For various reasons, in ancient times men were the pillars of society. Whether it is to introduce talents for the imperial court or to expand the number of soldiers for war, women have to feed and nurture under such a social form, which is an objective and unchangeable drawback of ancient society.