In recent years, the behavior of Network inventors in creating rules has become more and more intense, and these inventors whose brains are more conservative than those of the former Qing Dynasty have obscenified a lot of false rules of the Thunder People:
What concubine is more noble than the concubine, what step-sister-in-law is called "step-concubine" the status is not as high as the original concubine, what lowly step-house is never better than the original match, to give the original plate a concubine ceremony...
In particular, the rumor that "the stepmother will give the original tablet a concubine ceremony" is extremely marketable, and the house fighting novel, the palace fight film and television drama, etc. have followed the trend, it is said that a certain drama even made the scene of the original concubine disrespecting the stepmother, there is really no most outrageous, only more outrageous.
I wondered, a little bit to read the book, check the data can understand: in the ancient times, the former and the successor were all concubines, filial piety is bigger than the sky, how dare the original concubine disrespect the stepmother? Why do those hysterical patients who automatically bring into the original party look down on the stepsister?
I remembered seeing a netizen ridicule the words before: This year, the grandmother has been rolled up!
Every time I think of this sentence, I can't help but laugh, yes, the original match, the step-room are all wives, the status is equal, why should it be fried too urgently! Even if the next door stick is so concubinous, there is no record of anyone taking a step-princess to mock, and there is no record of the step-concubine passing through the door to give the original plaque a concubine etiquette.
The Li Dynasty of the Consort Sect did not have the rules of the succession room to give the original tablet a concubine ceremony, and of course my Heavenly Dynasty did not have such an inexplicable rule, and those inventors also knew that their rumors had no historical basis, so they said, "Although there is no clear provision in the ancient etiquette law, in the homes of some exquisite people, the succession room must perform the concubine ceremony in front of the yuanpai tablet when entering the door."
Look, many people will justify themselves, and the historical data cannot be based on it, and it is all up to them to compile and sell it with one mouth. By the way, those people also like to use the word "yuan match", as if they feel more noble than "original match".
Don't they know that the meaning of "yuan match" and "original match" is the same, both refer to the first time married wife? However, these people probably do not know why "yuan match" was renamed "original match".
This article is written to puncture the rumor that "the stepmother will give the original tablet a concubine ceremony", using historical data and practical examples to refute the rumors, and to justify the name of the stepwife who belongs to the same chamber.
As a special reminder, this article only deals with the stepsisters of remarriage, not the stepsisters of concubines (which will be opened separately). (It is estimated that some people with different brain circuits will say that I am not originally born, otherwise why should I speak to the stepsister.) ^_^）
According to the "Spring and Autumn Period", as early as the Spring and Autumn Period, the princes could only marry relatives once in their lifetime, that is, the so-called "princes hire nine daughters, and the princes will no longer marry."
Inventors who do not recognize the status of stepwives like to quote this sentence, saying that men are not allowed to remarry according to etiquette, and it is illegal to marry, which is used to degrade the status of stepwives as high as the original.
Why does the Spring and Autumn Say that princes can no longer marry?
It is because the princes marry nine at a time, have wives and wives (ying), even if the wife dies, there are still wives who come up to "regent" internal affairs, so there is no need to marry another wife.
If the wife is remarried after death, it will cause turmoil, in order to clear the concubine and guard against usurpation, so the princes will no longer marry, so as to maintain the uniqueness of the concubine.
Xu Yan, a Tang dynasty man, once explained that the stipulation that princes and princes were not allowed to remarry was also to give their wives the opportunity to succeed and let them "have the hope of being a concubine". This also shows that at that time, there was a situation of concubine support.
Therefore, after the death of his wife, the princes of the Spring and Autumn Period came to act as the wife of the concubine, and the regent of internal affairs, this regent lady, was called "the stepmother".
It should be noted here that most of the so-called "stepsisters" in the Spring and Autumn Period were supported by noble concubines of the concubine rank, so her patriarchal status was indeed lower than that of the original concubine, which did not require a bar.
However, with the development of the times, after the Qin and Han Dynasties, the people of the world will continue to marry the wife, also called the stepmother, and the step room due to the integration of the remarriage wife, the status began to change, in the patriarchal law, the law, and the original wife to enjoy the same rights and interests, that is, the so-called former wife, the successor is the right wife.
So, in the Spring and Autumn Period, but all men can no longer marry?
wrong! Only the Son of Heaven and the princes can no longer marry, and other men can remarry. Because the princes of Tianzi marry more than one at a time, "there is no ceremony of remarriage"; but below the Qing Doctor, only one can be married at a time, and after the unfortunate death of the wife, there is no owner in the inner house, "so it is unavoidable, there is a remarriage ceremony".
So Le, remind some people, if you are not the identity of the Prince of Heaven, don't say anything more about the Spring and Autumn Ritual Law that stipulates that men can only marry their wives once, and there are remarriage ceremonies below Doctor Qing! (In fact, I only paid attention to the previous sentence that the princes did not have the ceremony of remarriage, but did not pay attention to the latter sentence that there is a remarriage ceremony below the doctor.) ）
Why is there a remarriage ceremony below Dr. Qing?
Because Lady Concubine is dead, there is no one to take care of the internal affairs of the family, no one can take on the great responsibility of the Temple, and it is impossible to let the lowly concubines bear the responsibility of the Lady! Therefore, there is a sense of remarriage below Dr. Qing.
Therefore, whether it is the Spring and Autumn Period or the Warring States, men have the phenomenon of remarriage, and when Ban Zhao of the Eastern Han Dynasty preached in the "Female Commandment" that women do not have a second marriage, they also touted the righteousness of men to remarry.
It can be seen from Ban Nüde's remarks that in the eyes of the ancients, it is a matter of course and a matter of course for men to remarry, but a woman's second marriage will be ridiculed and criticized by public opinion.
Think about it with your toes, in a patriarchal society, how can men formulate etiquette laws to limit their rights?
So, when did the remarried wife begin to be called a "stepmother"? From the Wei and Jin Dynasties of the Southern and Northern Dynasties.
In the pre-Qin period, after being corrected, she was called "the stepmother", and her patriarchal status was slightly inferior to that of the original concubine, because she did not enjoy the wedding process at the time of marriage, so her status was inferior to that of the concubine.
What is the name of the second lady who was married?
There is really no relevant title, the pre-Qin only said "remarried wife", the Han Dynasty's title for the stepwife has "more marriage", there is "remarriage", and the former wife's title for the father's stepwife has stepmother, stepmother, false mother, etc., and does not use the stepmother to refer to it.
In the southern and northern periods of the Wei and Jin dynasties, there was a phenomenon of using the stepmother room to refer to the remarriage of the wife, and it was also from that time that whether it was the concubine room of Fuzheng or the concubine who remarried, they were collectively referred to as the stepmother and the stepwife.
Records of the appointment of a successor in the history books abound, such as Zheng Yuan, a western Jin dynasty, whose wife Sun Shi died early, and who also hired the Lu state Xue ren Cao shi as the successor; Murong Chui of Later Yan hired his sister-in-law Duan Shi as the successor room; Xi Liang Li Huan hired the widow Yin Shi as the successor room, and so on.
It is said that the Wei and Jin Dynasties and the Southern and Northern Dynasties periods have always been the era to which the Online Concubine Cult aspired, but in this era there was a very ironic phenomenon - the combination of two wives and concubines, and this phenomenon even continued until the Sui and Tang dynasties.
What is a second wife and a wife? Is it a flat wife?
The coexistence of two wives is not a peaceful wife that only appeared in the Ming and Qing dynasties, and the peaceful wife is not recognized in the patriarchy and the law; the "second wife and concubine" is different, both wives are concubines, both are recognized in the patriarchy and the law, and can obtain titles.
There are many reasons for the phenomenon of second wives, there are reasons for political struggle, there are reasons for the separation of the north and the south, and of course there are also reasons for male greed, so in the era of clear distinction between concubines, a large number of two wives are coexisting, and because of the problem of concubines and inheritance, many disputes have been caused.
There are many examples of second wives and wives, which are not within the scope of this article, so they are not mentioned. This article only discusses the status and rights of the stepwife, and the following will explain whether the status of the stepwife is the same as that of the original wife through several aspects:
From the husband's point of view:
The successor and the original title are the same, they are all the husband's concubines, both have the qualifications to be ordained wives because of their husbands, follow the husband and wife, and their own bodies and their mother's family can be glorified because of their husband's family.
The step-house and the original family enjoy the same social, patriarchal, and legal status, of course, they also have to bear the corresponding rights and obligations, such as participating in family sacrifices, governing internal affairs, serving uncles and aunts, harmonious clans, raising and rearing children (original children, own children, and concubines), assisting husbands in lady diplomacy, and so on.
The step-chamber, like the original match, must serve the deceased husband for three years; the husband only serves the decay staff period for them, not for the concubine.
When the concubine's concubine, whether it is the original match or the step-room, must serve the period of decay, and the step-room is the same as the original match, as the main mother, there is no need to serve as a concubine.
After the death of the step-room, the treatment is the same as that of the original match, and there is the right to bury the husband together: there are stepsisters and husbands and the original three people buried together, there are also husband and wife in the same cave, after the death of the step-room of the different caves, as well as the original single burial, the stepsister and the husband buried together, there are more stepsisters buried alone.
If the stepwife dies late, most of them no longer open the grave of their deceased husband, but choose to be buried alone or buried.
The tablets of the step-room, like the original tablets, can be elevated to the Temple of the Emperor, and together with the original tablets, accompany the husband's tablets and accept the sacrifice of their descendants.
Note: There is no noble gift in the succession room and the original plate placement, the only difference is that in the position, it is necessary to put it up and down in the order of priority, indicating the meaning of first come, first come, but not the distinction between honor and inferiority.
Here is a special explanation: when the step room goes to the original plate to offer incense sacrifices, there is no rumor that the concubine ceremony, the most that the step room can do is to call the original match a sister, do a first come, the descendants respect the number of the predecessors.
After all, their relationship, there is indeed a first-come-first-served order, you go to a company as a newcomer, but also have to pay respect to the predecessors who came first, right? Is it true that people come first is positive, and you are biased later? Aren't they all regular employees of the company?
From the perspective of the descendants (the stepsons in this section refer specifically to the original gametes, excluding the sons):
When the Confucian classics talk about marriage, they only pay attention to the relationship between husband, wife and concubine, and do not distinguish between the original match and the stepmother, and only when defining the name of the mother and child, they will emphasize "stepmother like mother".
Stepmother and stepson are obviously not related by blood, so why emphasize that stepmothers are like mothers?
Because it is a patriarchal society, the stepmother is the father's spouse and wife, so the filial stepdaughter must respect the stepmother like the biological mother (the original match), the stepmother legally enjoys the right of dictation, the right of marriage, the right of succession, and the right to manage the property of the extended family after the death of the husband.
Stepmothers can be ordained because of their stepsons (including, of course, their own sons and sons), the mother is precious by virtue of her children, enjoys the right to support her children, and the stepsons (including, of course, their own sons and sons) have the duty and responsibility to be filial to the adoptive stepmother.
When the stepmother died, the stepson had to serve the same funeral as his mother, and before the Tang Dynasty, his father was still in the period of serving the qi decay staff for the mother, and the father was absent for three years; after the reform of the Wu Emperor, the father had to serve the qi decline for three years; after the Ming Dynasty, he changed to serve the same as the decay of the mother; the stepson who was an official (of course, including his own son and shuzi) also had to worry about Ding.
From the perspective of prototypic and stepchild rights:
The former and the successors are all wives, and the sons born to them are all concubines as opposed to the children born to concubines.
However, according to the traditional patriarchal system of feudal society - the inheritance system of the eldest son of the concubine, the step-house that is only hired after the death of the original match, then, the step-house concubine is naturally not dominant in terms of age compared with the original concubine, so in the case of encountering the original match and the step-house have concubines, most of the eldest sons who inherit the ancestral line are from the original gamete.
Inventors also often use this phenomenon to say that the stepmother is lower than the original gamete, but they do not consider that the stepchild is born late, so he is not eligible to inherit the ancestral lineage.
For example, a certain lord, originally equipped with two sons, the stepmother also has two sons, according to the order of the inheritance system, naturally the original birth of the eldest son to attack the knight, even if the eldest son dies early, it is also made up by the mother and brother, the son of the stepmother room due to age, rarely can cross the eldest brother to inherit the knighthood.
But this does not mean that the status of the step-sister-in-law is lower than that of the original concubine, but the long and young are only orderly, after all, when his mother marries over, the original concubine already exists, as a step-roomer, how can it not be ranked in front of the original concubine in the order, and the chance of becoming a knight is naturally not great.
Of course, there are exceptions to everything, if the original gamete is unfortunate to die, it is naturally the turn of the step-brother-in-law to make up for it and become the new "father of the latter"; there are also the original gametes who are virtuous and indisputable, and take the initiative to give up the family property or title to the stepmother's son.
There is also the possibility that if you encounter the son of the stepmother of the "two eight beautiful people seven nine lang", because of the shortcomings of the age, even if the original concubine dies early, I am afraid that the step-chamber concubine does not have the possibility of the eldest son attacking the knight, see the Guanghai Jun of the Stick Dynasty.
The laws of the Han Dynasty have a stipulation: half-brothers can be each other, if a baronet has a title and is childless, the half-brother will give priority to the knighthood, and the different (former) mother and brother cannot inherit even if they are older.
There is also a situation where if the ex-wife is abandoned by the husband, the inheritance rights of the abandoned wife (original) son must be ranked behind the step-houser, unless the step-house is childless, and it is the turn of the abandoned wife (original) son to "be the father of the latter".
From the perspective of criminal law:
Because the position of the stepmother in the patriarchal law and the law is the same as that of the original match, when the stepson is not filial, scolded, or beats the stepmother, the stepmother enjoys the rights and interests of the stepmother, and the stepson has to bear the same punishment of killing the mother.
Taking the Han, Tang, and Ming dynasties as an example, don't dwell on why I chose these two eras, because the Song Dynasty almost copied the Tang laws, and the Qing laws almost copied the Ming laws.
The Western Han Dynasty Meiyang had a stepmother who told the government that the stepson was not filial, and Wang Zun, who was then the Meiyang Ling, hung the unfilial stepson on a tree and sentenced him to the punishment of zhe (磔), and let the horsemen shoot the unfilial son.
During the reign of Emperor Jing, there was a stepzi named Visiting Nian, whose stepmother Chen Shi killed his father, and because of this, Henian killed his stepmother and went to prison, according to han law, the son killed his mother in order to plot a great rebellion, and was sentenced to a tyrant, so he was sentenced to a thug. During the review by Tingwei, Emperor Jing questioned the case and examined Emperor Wu, who was then the crown prince.
Emperor Wu believed that when his stepmother killed his father, he had already severed the relationship between husband and wife, and for Visiting Nian, there was naturally no mother-child benevolence, so it should not be treated according to the conspiracy and rebellion, but should be punished according to the crime of killing mortals. Emperor Jing took Emperor Wu's advice.
The "Two-Year Law" also records that as a son of man, the punishment for premeditated murder of step-grandmother and stepmother is the same as for premeditated killing of one's own grandmother and mother, and the punishment for abandoning the city is the same as abandoning the city when the wife of the son of man beats and insults her husband's mother and stepmother.
After the two Han Dynasties, Cao Wei also continued to reiterate that the stepson killed his stepmother, which was the same crime as killing his own mother, and was used by the Jin Dynasty.
Looking at the Tang Dynasty, if a child insults his grandparents or parents, he shall be sentenced to hanging; those who beat his grandparents or parents shall be beheaded; those who kill their grandparents or parents by mistake shall be exiled for 3,000 miles; and those who injure their grandparents or parents shall be sentenced to three years' imprisonment.
If a descendant is killed for violating the orders of his elders, what punishment will be imposed on the grandparents and parents?
The beating and murder of a child shall be punished by one and a half years' imprisonment, the murder of a child with a murder weapon shall be sentenced to two and a half years' imprisonment, respectively, and the penalty shall be added to the first class of each.
At this time, there is a certain difference between the stepmother, the concubine (including the original match, the stepmother, and the theory of the son), the loving mother, the adoptive mother, and the mother-in-law.
Because there is no blood relationship between the stepmother (嫡, ci, yang) and the stepson (庶, yang), although there is a mother-child ethic between them, in the law, it is still one degree heavier (only one more important) than the mother's killing of the parent.
When a child violates his mother's order, his mother beats and kills his or her parents and sentences him to one and a half years' imprisonment, and his stepmother beats and kills his stepson, plus a first-class sentence, and is sentenced to two-and-a-half years' imprisonment;
When the child deliberately kills without violating the religious order, the stepmother is sentenced to two years' imprisonment, and the stepmother (concubine, ci, yang) is added to the first class and sentenced to two and a half years' imprisonment; the biological mother is killed with a murder weapon, and the prison sentence is two and a half years; the stepmother is killed with a murder weapon, plus the first class, and the first class is sentenced to three years' imprisonment.
Next, looking at the Ming Law, children and grandchildren and wives and concubines who beat their grandparents and parents were sentenced to be beheaded; killing grandparents and parents was sentenced to Ling Chi's execution; killing grandparents and parents by mistake, with a staff of one hundred and exiled for three thousand miles; and injuring grandparents and parents, with a staff of one hundred and a fixed-term imprisonment of three years.
If a descendant is beaten and killed by his grandparents or parents for violating the religious order, the honorable elder is sentenced to only one hundred cane sentences; if the child is deliberately killed, he is sentenced to sixty or one year's imprisonment; the concubine, stepmother, loving mother, and adoptive mother are all given a first class on the basis of the mother,000, and in addition to the cane punishment, they are sentenced to one and a half years' imprisonment.
Briefly comb through this section:
The stepmother of the Han Dynasty sued the stepson for filial piety, and the stepson was sentenced to abandon the city;
The stepson premeditated to beat and kill his stepmother, and was also sentenced to abandon the city;
The stepson kills the stepmother, the head of the thief;
The stepmother was killed by the stepson for killing her father, and the stepson was treated as a mortal.
Tang Dynasty children insulted their stepmothers and were sentenced to hanging;
Beating the stepmother and being beheaded;
Kill your stepmother by mistake and exile for three thousand miles;
Wounded stepmother and sentenced him to three years in prison.
A child is beaten and killed by her stepmother for violating her stepmother's order, and the stepmother adds a first class to the punishment of the parent who beats and kills the parent, and is sentenced to two years' imprisonment;
The stepmother who killed his stepson with a murder weapon was also added to the mother's punishment and sentenced to two and a half years' imprisonment.
The child did not violate the stepmother's order, but was also deliberately killed by the stepmother, and was also added to the punishment of the mother's killing of the parent, and the sentence of imprisonment was two and a half years;
When the stepmother kills her stepson with a murder weapon, she continues to add a first class to the mother's punishment and is sentenced to three years' imprisonment.
Ming dynasty children beat their stepmothers and were sentenced to beheaded;
Killing the stepmother and executing Ling Chi;
Manslaughter of stepmother, cane sentenced to one hundred, exiled for three thousand miles;
Wounded stepmother, cane 100, three years in prison.
The child was killed by the stepmother by the adoptive means for violating the stepmother's order, and the stepmother was sentenced to a 100-cane sentence;
The stepmother deliberately killed her stepson and was sentenced to sixty canes and one and a half years in prison.
Judging from the comparison of the Laws of the Han, Tang, and Ming Dynasties, as a child who is humble and young, the punishment for killing and injuring the parents and the elder has always been very heavy; on the other hand, the parents respect the elder and kill the children and the children are inferior, and the punishment is relatively light, even if the stepmother who is not related to the stepson is not related to the stepwife, because of the identity of his step-wife, he still enjoys the rights and interests of the stepdaughter and the mother.
Through the comparison of the above aspects, it can be seen that the ceremonial law and the law guarantee the status of the concubines of the stepmen, so that the actual benefits they receive are not inferior to those of the original wives.
There are even many stepsisters, because of their own talents or family lineage, they can get the love and eccentricity of their husbands; there are also stepsisters who get more benefits than the original because of their husbands' transformation from lowliness to eminence.
A few well-known examples:
Wen Jiao, a native of the Eastern Jin Dynasty, died early when he was a lowly man, and married his original wife Gaoping Li (高平李氏); after the eminent empress, Wen Jiao (文峤) after the eminent emperor hired another concubine to marry the stepfather Langya Wangshi (琅琊王氏), who died early; he married lujiang He shi (庐江何氏) and also died in front of Wen Jiao; later, when Wen Jiao died, the imperial court wanted to give him a gift, and faced his three wives with difficulties.
Chen Shu believed that even if his wife died early, he should not be deposed, so li wang he and the three people should be posthumously given to his wife.
Yu Weizhi believed that the identity of the wife should be determined with the identity of the husband, so the (original) wife of the lowly time could not obtain the posthumous title, and if Li Shi did not receive the commandment before his death, he would not be eligible to receive the posthumous gift, and only the queen and the second lady of He could be posthumously.
The imperial court adopted Yu Weizhi's suggestion and posthumously presented Wen Zhao's two stepwives as the Duke of Shi'an, but did not posthumously present the original wife.
Before the Song Taizu Zhao Kuangyin did not make a trace, he married the daughter of the He clan of the low-ranking military attaché who was opposite to him, and gave birth to three sons and two daughters in a row, and when Zhao Er was an envoy to Jiedushi, the He clan who was given the title of lady died early.
After his wife's death for only half a year, Zhao Er was impatient to give a dowry of thousands of gold, and married the wang daughter of the high-ranking military attaché family as the stepmother, and was very partial to the Wang clan.
In the first month of the first year of Jianlong (960), Zhao Er usurped Zhou Jiansong for the sake of Song Taizu, and in August, he established wang as empress; two years later, in April of the third year of Jianlong (962), he was posthumously named the original He clan empress, without a title, nor a temple, but only disposed of the ancestral hall in the tomb.
In December of the first year of Qiande (963), when his step-wife Empress Wang collapsed, Taizu began to build a temple. On March 25 of the following year (964), when Taizu was giving his stepwriter Empress Wang the title of "Filial Piety", he gave the original He clan the title of "Filial Piety" together, and enshrined the gods of the two wives in other temples, not in the order of first coming, first come, but took the stepwife King Xiaoming and lived in the original filial piety.
In February of the sixth year of Qiande (968), Song Taizu also hired a daughter of his cousin Gaomen Song as his successor, that is, Empress Kaibao Song. It can be seen that with the change of Zhao Er's status, the door of the three wives he hired was higher than the first.
After the death of Song Taizu, his maternal brother Zhao Jiong (jiong) took the throne, and for Emperor Taizong of Song, he elevated the second brother's god lord to the Temple of Taimiao, and he was worthy of the succession of Empress Xiaoming (the Queen of Song was still alive), and the original He clan could only squat in the temple with grievances.
Emperor Taizong also married three wives successively, namely Empress Yin of the original Shude, Empress Fu of the Second Chamber, and Empress Li of the Second Chamber. After Emperor Taizong's death, he ascended to the Temple of Taimiao, and was also the main companion of empress Dowager Fu of the Imperial Household. When Emperor Zhenzong Zhao Heng arrived, he also ignored the original Empress Zhang Huaipan and took empress Dowager Zhang Muguo to enjoy the Taimiao Temple.
Until June of the sixth year of Emperor Shenzong's reign (1083), the chancellor suggested to Emperor Shenzong that the wife he married when he was a nobleman was a concubine, and the wife he married when he was a lowly man was also a concubine, and the former and subsequent wives were all concubines, and it was not allowed to be worthy of the Taimiao Temple because Taizu's original filial piety Huihe, Emperor Taizong's original matching Shu Deyin, and Zhenzong's original match Zhang Huaipan had not been empresses!
Emperor Shenzong then issued an edict to elevate the original gods and lords of the three old ancestors to the Taimiao Temple, and the Zhao officials' disregard for the operation of the previous marriage and the succession order was also rude enough.
The ceremony of standing, its coming is still good. The beginning and the end are revealed, all are concubines, before marrying and succeeding, all are concubines. (History of the Song Dynasty, 62 Rites XII)
Yuan Rong, the Marquis of Guangping of Daming, was a hero of Zhu Di, and he was a concubine. In December of the first year of Yongle (1403), Zhu Di conferred the title of Jingnan Meritorious Servant and posthumously presented the meritorious ancestors for three generations, and Yuan Rong wanted to ask for a curse for the concubine Liu Shi, who died early.
Whether it is according to the traditional etiquette or according to the military attaché conferment system formulated by Ming Taizu, it is the mother-in-law and stepmother who are alive, and the birth mother is not eligible to receive the gift; if the stepmother dies and the birth mother is still there, she can get the gift; or the mother-in-law and the birth mother are dead, and they can get the gift together.
However, the situation in Yuan Rong's family was that his mother Sun Shi died, and the stepmother Luo Shi, whom his father had hired and married, was still alive, and his little concubine could not be given a gift under any circumstances, and only the stepmother could stain the light of shuzi.
As we all know, Zhu Si, like YongSi, was eccentric and short-sighted, and even if he disregarded the etiquette law, he ordered the Ceremonial Department and the Hanlin Academy to discuss the matter of Yuan Rong's stepmother and birth mother's gift.
Xie Jin, a scholar who was a scholar, gave the emperor an idea: If Yuan Rong's birth mother and stepmother were alive, it would be said that they could not be sealed together; now that the stepmother is alive, it is reasonable to be sealed, and the concubine and the birth mother who died early can take into account the human feelings and can be sealed together.
Zhu Di was very happy, and took the advice of Zhi Jin, and made Yuan Rong's mother-in-law Sun Shi, stepmother Luo Shi, and birth mother Liu Shi the wife; and righteously said in a righteous and verbal edict that "the latter is not an example".
Through the above typical examples, the original match and the step-room are all concubines, the status and rights and interests enjoyed are the same, and there are often cases where the husband prefers the step-room and ignores the original match.
Actually! The original match and the step-room are the legal spouses of the husband, the original match is not qualified to discriminate against the step-room, and the step-room does not have to look down on the original match, just like the concubines and grandchildren who inherit the ancestral lineage can have N because of the phenomenon of succession, and the wives also have at least two or more, the difference is nothing more than the original match, the step-room, the second step-room, and even the third and fourth step-rooms.
Don't be surprised, the behavior of men hiring stepwives is really common, not to mention the second wife, three marriages, four marriages are not in the minority, at present it can be known that the most married wives are Tang People Cui Hao, this house is not a good person, once married five times, specially hired to marry a beautiful wife, soon after marriage, abandoned, so before and after marrying five times.
Finally, I repeat it: the succession chamber wants to give the original tablet a concubine ceremony, which is purely a rumor! Stop believing rumors!
Please, the person who spread the rumor that "the step-room should give the original tablet a concubine ceremony" to think about it, a person who was born an ordinary reader in the feudal era, his first marriage partner, the original wife's door, how many will be higher than his noble and remarried to the door of the step-room?
If this so-called "concubine ceremony" really exists, wouldn't it be necessary to cut off the possibility of a man remarrying a high-ranking successor? Will the beneficiaries of the patriarchal society come up with this thing to bind themselves?
That's it.
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