In the ancient feudal society, male marriage and female marriage is a very solemn thing, not only pay attention to the door to the household there are many traditions and exquisite, such as the man to marry the relatives to three media and six hires, and the woman wants to marry after the life is satisfactory, the dowry is essential, and the more the dowry, the more the in-laws are valued, in the woman's dowry there are both dowry and dowry, which is very common in ancient society.
The daughters of large families will have a dowry lady when they get married, one is to give the lady a companion in the in-laws' house, there are confidants around to take care of the living life, but also to help the miss to stabilize the position, the highest standard of the dowry is the sister of the miss, or the same sister, so that the interests of the woman's family can be guaranteed, if the miss dies or any accident occurs, then the dowry sister will be corrected, continue to ensure the status and interests of the mother's family.
Because the dowry sisters have a relatively high status, after arriving at the man's home, they are actually equivalent to half a wife, and their status is higher than that of concubines, and they can also have children for the man. If it is an ordinary dowry, it is actually a roommate, such as Wang Xifeng's lady Ping'er in "Dream of the Red Chamber", although she is a lady, she can also be close to Jia Lian, and her status is higher than other women.
In ancient times, the final destination of many dowry maidens was to be the concubines of the male host, they could help the miss to compete for favors, if the miss was unwell, then they could replace the miss, but in history, there was a dowry lady who had a higher status than her own miss, she finally became an empress, and the former miss was just a concubine, and this legendary dowry was the southern Tang Dynasty founding empress Song Fujin.
Song Fujin was originally born in the Shuxiang family of the big girl, but coincided with frequent wars, social unrest, in the escape she and her family were separated, became an orphan fortunately was saved by the local assassin Shi Wang Rong, arranged for her to be a maid at home, because she was about the same age as Miss Wang Family, so he let her be Miss Wang's personal maid, the Wang family was very good to Song Fujin, let her and Miss live and eat the same, but also taught her to learn poetry and talent.
Miss Wang family grew up and Xu Zhihuan married, and Song Fujin as a dowry maid naturally came to the Xu family, unfortunately Miss Wang family has not been pregnant since marriage, in order to preserve the status and interests of the family, Miss took the initiative to let Song Fujin become her husband's concubine, because Song Fujin is beautiful and clever, Xu Zhijin quickly agreed, did not expect that soon after Song Fujin gave birth to a son for the Xu family, the Xu family also valued her more.
After a few years of miss Wang's illness and death, Xu Zhihuan put Song Fujin to help, she changed from a dowry to a wife, and Xu Zhihuan also became the founding emperor of the Southern Tang Dynasty from a commoner counterattack, in fact, Xu Zhihuan was not the son of the Xu family, he and Song Fujin were connected to the same fate, but also because of the war, he became a homeless person, his original surname was Li, but only the adopted son of the Xu family.
Xu Zhihuan is a capable and ambitious person, as the saying goes, the chaotic world produces heroes, in the chaotic world at that time, Xu Zhihuan took over the military power of his adoptive father with his own vision and talent, and established the Southern Tang, after becoming emperor, he named Song Fujin as empress and posthumously named Wang Shi as a concubine, because in his heart the most important thing was to accompany him to share happiness and hardship, and to give birth to children for him Song Fujin.