In addition to giving birth to children, ancient concubines also had a role, which simply lost the bottom line of human morality.
We all know that in ancient times, there was a popular saying that a woman's talentlessness is morality, so the status of women is very low, not to mention human rights. We watch the TV series in which the lady can be bought and sold, and the lady of the big family will fall into the situation of being sold if the family is in the middle of the road, so the ancient feudal ideology really persecutes generations of people. That in ancient times, although the identity of the concubine was low, but there was no accident in a lifetime, that is, the life of a mane, but there was a kind of person, the fate was even worse than the maid, that is, the concubine, why is the fate of the concubine even worse than the maid? Because concubines not only have to give birth to children for their husbands, but also be used as tools for the male master, what is going on?
The source of the concubine
We know that in feudal society, men have always been the dominant occupation society, and women always have no status, and even before marriage, they do not even have a name, only a surname. So over time, people naturally think that women are men's appendages, since ancient times the population can be bought and sold and gifted, so the protagonists of rich families will buy a lot of women. These bought women are originally from poor families and have low status, so even if they are bought back to rich families, they do not represent a turn of fate, but are completely reduced to a tool.
"Tools" are primarily responsible for passing on the generations
The status of the concubine in the family is only slightly higher than that of the maid, but she does not have to do some rough work of washing and cooking like a serious maid, but at home, she also looks at the face of the protagonist, without the slightest right to speak and exercise power. And their most important role, is to open up the branches and leaves of the master's family, we all know that there are three filial pieties, no queen is greater, in ancient large households, it is very important to pay attention to the prosperity of the family, the more heirs, it means that the family will be better and better. If the concubine can add a son and a half daughter to the family, the male owner will be very happy, her identity will also be improved, and the male protagonist will also pay a little attention to this concubine.
Although men pay a little attention to it, it is not much different from the past, not to mention that the children born will also be spurned and scolded, such as Yuan Shao in the Three Kingdoms period, who was also born of a concubine and despised at home. At this time, the concubine has a child, she is a mother, so she cares more about her own child, seeing the child is in the voice of being scolded all her life, the heart is very uncomfortable, so for them, it is better to have children than no children, at least the pain will be less.
Concubines also have a role - to lose humanity
No matter how favored the concubines are, they have no status in the family, so the only person she can rely on is her husband, but in the eyes of her husband, they are just things they bought, they can be discarded at any time, and they can be given away at any time, and their fate is completely in the hands of their husbands. Even if some concubines give birth to children, most of the time they will be ruthlessly abandoned by their husbands, some will be sold to others again, and changing hands again is the turning point of the fate of the concubines, if the appearance is average, they will be bought back by the new master to be used as a concubine, that is, a concubine has become a concubine, but you are a concubine, and at this time you will be looked down upon in the concubines.
There is also a kind of concubine, which may be very outstanding in appearance, called a beautiful person, and after the male host is tired of playing, he will change the concubine as a gift and give it to his superiors to please them and get benefits. Such an approach simply loses the bottom line of human nature, and can do everything for the sake of profit, such as the Qin Dynasty, Lü Buwei gave the pregnant concubine to Zi Chu in order to please King Xiang of Qin Zhuang.
So no matter how high the status of a man, the women around him are like tools, can be abandoned at any time, can also be given away at any time, I think what I see in the film and television drama is only a little bit of the image, how the real feudal society treats women, we simply can't imagine. Compared with now, this society is really a hundred thousand times better.