Ancient times are not like our modern times, everyone is equal, harmonious and friendly, in ancient times the distinction between the name is very important, Confucius also supports the love has equal differences, maintain the zhou li and other poor order, it can be seen that the ancient Chinese culture with Confucian culture as the core of how much attention to the difference in rank, embodied in the country, that is, the difference between the royal family and ordinary people, embodied in a family is the wife and the concubine, the difference between the concubine and the concubine, although the wife and the concubine belong to the same man, but the status of the two is completely different, then the difference between the concubine is really like heaven and earth, Cloud mud?
The difference in the status of wives and concubines leads to the status of the children they give birth to are also completely different, the children of the right wife are called concubines, and the concubines are even equivalent to the status of servants, and their degree of eating and wearing is much lower than that of the concubines, not to mention the confrontation, and some concubines also have to serve the concubines, see the concubines, although the blood is brothers, sisters, but still have to perform rituals, this is not the most unfair, they can not call their biological mothers as mothers, but to call her aunt Not only that, when you are born, you can't call your mother your mother your mother, and after you die, you can't bury it with your own hands, and your sons and daughters have no right to bury their birth mother personally.
After the fall of the Sui Dynasty, the general Qiu Xinggong was born out of nowhere, with great military achievements, and made many meritorious achievements when he followed Li Shimin to fight the world, and later when Li Shimin and Wang Shichong fought, he also saved Li Shimin's life. However, it was such a well-known general, who was deeply favored by tianzi, and could not bury his own mother with his own hands, because his birth mother was a concubine, and after his mother's death, he had to be buried by the eldest son of the family, that is, Qiu Xinggong's eldest brother, Qiu Xinggong was very unwilling, so he wanted to compete with his brother for his mother's burial rights, as a result, this matter was reported to Tang Taizong by the secret agent, Qiu Xinggong was impeached by the judicial department, and finally, the matter became more and more noisy, and he was reduced to a commoner, you say, In ancient times, this difference between concubines and concubines was not great, and burying one's own mother could still bring such misfortune.
Shuzi not only can not bury their mother with their own hands, there is no inheritance, the father's family property can only be divided by the concubine, the concubine is not qualified, if the concubine is favored, at best he can get a little gift from the father, the family is separated, the royal family and the nobles in addition to the financial competition, but also involve the inheritance of these more important things such as the throne and the title, but so many children can only choose one to inherit, so there is a succession system of the eldest son, there is a clear stipulation in the Tang Dynasty law, the eldest son of the concubine dies, the eldest grandson of the concubine, neither, If there is no concubine, it will be the turn of the concubine, although it seems that the concubine also has the opportunity to inherit the title and family property, but from the reality of this, it is far from the case. Very few such cases have been recorded in historical facts.
A Fuzhou assassin of the Tang Dynasty successively married two wives with the surname of Bai as wives, but both wives did not live long, and died early, he only had one concubine under him, the son born of a concubine, but the last to inherit his title and official position was not this only son, but his nephew, nephew is the eldest son of the eldest brother, this typical story shows that in ancient times, officials and nobles would rather let their nephews inherit their inheritance than let their concubines inherit, which shows the inferior status of the sons born of concubines.
There is a scolding sentence in Beijing dialect that is you are a, what does this sentence mean, that is, you are raised by a, and the children born of concubines are very low, and the children of the same room are even less counted, so to say so is a very mean and demeaning word.
If shuzi wants to get the right to inherit what to do, there must be a will, if there is a will of the old man, you shuzi may have the opportunity to share the property, the history books recorded a thing, the Ming Dynasty capital Shuntianfu, there was an interesting inheritance dispute case, the county grandfather is a famous official, very good at judging the case, it is precisely because of meeting him, this case can be closed, the case is like this, at that time There was a big official in Xianghe County, the family wealth is huge, he had a wife, there was a concubine, both people gave birth to sons, He was afraid that after his death, the eldest son would not share the inheritance with the concubine and his son, so he gave a painting to the concubine and told her that if you hold this painting, you will be able to get the inheritance when the time comes.
After his death, the two sons gradually grew up, the younger brother wanted to return his own family property from the older brother, the brother not only did not give it but also made a sarcastic remark to the younger brother, no way, the concubine had to take out the painting and handed it to the Yamen, the county grandfather looked at it for half a day, thinking that this was an ordinary landscape painting, was preparing to put it away, suddenly, from the scroll fell out of the painting a will, which read, the two new houses are distributed to the brother, the old house is divided to the younger brother, the old house is buried around the silver five thousand two, gold one thousand two, If the person who saw this will could judge the case justly, he would give a hundred taels of silver to thank him, but after all, the old man had passed away for so long, the concubine could completely deny it and not admit that it was a will left by his father. Therefore, the county grandfather thought of a way to let the concubine hand over the inheritance by hand, the county grandfather found the concubine, the concubine really denied it, refused to hand over the family property, so the county grandfather resigned, when he went outside the house, suddenly, he pointed at the air, dancing with his hands, as if he was talking to the old lady, after a while, he said to the concubine, I saw your dead father, the concubine listened, scared enough, but although he was a little jealous of his father's undead, he was still unwilling to hand over the property, the county grandfather said, you go to dig the old house, There are thousands of taels of gold and silver underground, your father told me. The concubine sent someone to dig up and found a large amount of gold and silver, which was believed to be true, and in this way, the concubine obtained his own property.
Shuzi's situation is miserable, ostracized, the situation of the concubine is not good, the concubine generally does not have the right to marry the husband's family alone, generally follow her own sister-in-law, marry to the sister-in-law's husband's family as a woman, facilitate her own family to control the man's bloodline, Princess Gu'an, marry far away from the northeast and relatives, in fact, Princess Gu'an is a concubine, because the empress's own daughter is not willing to marry far away to the northeast to go to the northeast and kiss, so the empress only recognized a concubine as a daughter, instead of her own daughter to go to the northeast and kiss, Princess Gu An only married in the past three years to become a widow, Continuing to marry the next emperor, the two had a good relationship, and tang Taizong knew that they had also won a commendation, at this time, the empress was not happy, and began to design a frame for the princess, and the story of the princess impersonating the concubine was unveiled and sent back to China.
Therefore, the author believes that in ancient times, the shu women and sons had no status at all, and they were at the mercy of others at any time, and their own struggling life may be tied up because of the relationship between the shu out, and they will not get a good ending.