The nun is a Buddhist woman who is wearing a shaved family. During the Ming Dynasty, because the Central Plains jiangshan returned to the hands of the Han people, the moral atmosphere of the whole society abandoned the loose and uninhibited situation of the Yuan Dynasty and became very strict, such as the traditional family paying attention to male cultivation and female weaving, men to pursue a high career and glory of the ancestors; women at home to abide by the way of women, husbands and godsons, filial piety and in-laws, and so on.
It is precisely because the Yuan Dynasty was founded by the Mongols, they were nomadic people, and they were not so particular about the etiquette and shame of the Central Plains, so there were often many incidents in the Yuan Dynasty in which men and women exceeded moral constraints - the nuns staying with men.
It is said that during the Yongle period of the Ming Dynasty, a reader was about to go to Beijing to catch the exam (many such candidates across the country), he was walking, it was dark, there was just a nunnery in front of him, he went in to ask for a night' stay, and after the nun's consent, unexpectedly, this stay was not seen for several months, and when people found him, they found that he was extremely weak. Such an incident is not a single one, but occurs from time to time in various places, and people report such incidents to the government.
The imperial court could not sit idly by and promulgate severe administrative measures: women under the age of 59 were strictly forbidden to become nuns, that is, only those over 59 years old could become nuns. The so-called policy at the top and the countermeasure at the bottom are ignored by the people, and there are often incidents of nuns staying with men in the people.
During the Ming Dynasty,000 years, a minister named Zhou Confucian, who was passing through Suzhou while touring the country, encountered local officials who were helpless against the incident of many nuns staying with men, and they were overwhelmed. Therefore, Zhou Confucianism proposed a solution to the problem for the magistrates: those who did not abide by the etiquette law sold the widowers at the price of pork and sold the widowers at the price of pork. Widower refers to a man whose wife has died.
As for whether this measure was implemented, it is not known, but from one side, it can be seen that the attitude of the upper class of the Ming Dynasty to nuns is to refuse more women to join the ranks of nuns.