As the saying goes, one person gets the Tao, and the chicken and the dog ascend to heaven, which means that a person is developed, and those who are slightly touched by all walks of life also enjoy welfare.
Just like Yang Yuhuan of the Tang Dynasty, who was shy of the moon and flowers, once he received the grace of the dynasty, both men and women in the Yang family followed the flying yellow Tengda, so that the great poet Bai Juyi lamented that the world's parents "do not regenerate men and reborn women".
However, in ancient times, there were not many opportunities for women like this to "get the tao", and if a family wanted to prosper, it was more dependent on men. Men fight for careers, revitalize the family, one person becomes an official, and the blessing can be extended to several generations of descendants.
Because in ancient times, the princely generals were hereditary, even ordinary officials could not pass on the inheritance, but they would also retain a good reputation, and the lintel would become higher. Even if future generations decline, the world will look up to you because your ancestors became officials, and the treatment will become better.
The corresponding punishment is also very strict, feudal rulers in order to better rule society, the criminal law mechanism is quite strict, once officials make mistakes, they will be punished very seriously.
We often see an official in a TV series who commits a crime and is robbed of his home, and there are countless such officials in history. So the question is, after these officials are raided, where will the huge group of women behind them go?
As we all know, in ancient times, it was emphasized that women were subordinate to their fathers at home and married to their husbands, to put it bluntly, women have no human rights, they are completely appendages of men, and they belong to a kind of asset of men. So if a man commits a crime, where does a woman go? Usually they have three kinds of ends.
The same sin as the head of the household was immediately executed
In ancient times, there was a system of consecutive sitting, and if an official committed a heinous crime, he would not only be robbed of his home, but also be killed by the wives, daughters, and mothers of the nine tribes, and the wives, daughters, and mothers of the officials who were very close to the officials were the same as the criminal officials, and were generally beheaded and paraded together after being tried.
In the TV series "The Biography of Chu Qiao", several of Yan Xun's sisters and sisters were convicted and executed together with the King of Northern Yan. The rulers did this in order to cut down the grass and remove the roots and eliminate the troubles forever; second, to deter the people and consolidate their rule.
Claustrophobic deportation exile death reprieve
Only close female relatives will be executed along with criminals, and most female dependents will not be directly executed. The government confiscated the family property at its discretion, and after the male was either executed or distributed, the female dependents of the government were usually expelled and dismissed and left to fend for themselves.
In ancient times, the education of women is talentless is virtue, except for the piano, chess, calligraphy and painting is three from four virtues, there is no survival skill at all, not to mention those housekeepers who do not touch the spring water of the ten fingers, for a while they lose the dependence of life, how to let them live?
More importantly, these female dependents have lost the protection of men, and have also been abandoned by the government, and they are naturally targeted by the wrongdoers, and once they fall into the hands of those who have ill intentions, their suffering will be unimaginable.
In the dream of the Red Chamber, Jia Fu was raided, and although those ladies were not killed, they were robbed and plundered, and they were scattered on the streets, and the unbearable endings were the most vivid portrayals.
If the crime was more serious, or if the judge was harsh, the female relatives would be exiled to a remote place, Ninguta.
This place is no stranger to everyone, and the parents and sisters of Zhen Huan, the ultimate winner of the big female drama "The Biography of Zhen Huan", have also been exiled to Ninguta. Ningguta was an important base for providing the Imperial Court with the eight banners of troops and the delivery of supplies to the Shubian troops, located in the area of today's Harbin, and the environment was extremely cold.
And the female dependents of the wearing of the sin were assigned to serve as slaves of the wearing of the armor, and the identity of the wearing of the armor was lower than that of the ordinary soldiers, and it is conceivable how humble the situation of the wearing of the sinful female dependents was.
Many pampered habituals died of illness on the way to Ningguta, and those who were slightly stronger barely managed to survive ninguta, but they could not withstand the bitter cold of the border pass, the miscellaneous service was heavy, and there were not a few who died of exhaustion and illness.
Sometimes, when men are executed, the government will also imprison some female dependents. After the xuanwumen rebellion, Li Jiancheng was killed, and Li Shimin imprisoned his wife Zheng Guanyin in the Burrow.
However, Zheng Guanyin was nominally Li Shimin's sister-in-law, and because of the political struggle to kill the orphan sister-in-law, it was not very good for the reputation of his generation of Ming Jun, so he could only be imprisoned, so this treatment was only for some female relatives with special identities.
Therefore, although the government did not kill the female dependents, this kind of exile and expulsion was tantamount to giving them a suspended death sentence and making them suffer and die.
It is better to die than to die in the abyss
The above two ends are already unbearable, but the following one is even more unexpected. The number of female dependents in the residences of the high officials is very large, and the official government generally takes into account that the fine skin and tender flesh of the female dependents cannot withstand exile, so it will arrange a place for the female dependents.
The first is to be paid into the ministry and serve as an official prostitute.
Jiaofangsi is an ancient Chinese court music institution, founded in the Tang Dynasty, responsible for court performances, which sounds good, like a decent and grand art work, but do you think of Bai Juyi's "Pipa Xing"?
Among them, the flower queen lady has no personal freedom, not to mention that the female dependents who wear crimes not only have no salary, but also are required to wear clothes of a specific color and are excluded and discriminated against by everyone, and some female dependents are not arranged to perform, but miscellaneous laborers.
In addition to the Priesthood Division, the female dependents of the wearing sin may also be rewarded as an object to other officials, become their personal belongings, and serve as slaves in the palace for a lifetime, because once they are enslaved, they can never be separated. Lucky people may also be accepted as concubines by officials, but the status of concubines is still as humble as dust.
Others, because of their beauty and talent, have become tools for officials to spy on each other or form alliances with each other. Just like the sable cicada was given to Dong Zhuo, those female relatives did not have the right to say that they had no rights, but could only be a marionette without emotion, and they had to struggle to survive in the political environment of open and secret struggle, and if they were not careful, they would die.
The most tragic thing is to be sold into the Qinglou. In the TV series, the women who are sold into the Qinglou are some women who are proficient in piano, chess, calligraphy and painting, look beautiful as flowers, but have a revenge plan, and there will also be a male protagonist who saves them from water and fire.
But in reality, the housekeeper lady who was charged into the Qinglou did not have such good luck. They can only be trampled on to death...
The ideological education received by ancient women was very strict. After experiencing the destruction of their families and the upheaval and displacement, they still have to be slaves, and even bend down to serve those who were once inferior to themselves, and to do the most shameful things, which undoubtedly pushes them into the abyss of life and death.
Of course, there is a situation in which a man commits a crime and the woman is exempt from implication, and that is that the woman is the royal nobleman.
In the fourth year of Jiaqing, after Qianlong's death, Jiaqing took the throne and slowly began to rectify the corrupt officials and yan, and finally took the throne step by step, arrested hezhen and divided the corpse according to the law, but the people and yan not only retained the whole corpse, but also retained the descendants, sons, and grandchildren.
Why? Because he had a great daughter-in-law, Princess Gulun and Xiaoxiao, Qianlong's beloved daughter, Jiaqing's favorite sister, she was not only not implicated by the criminal lord and Yan, but also saved her husband and son and other clansmen. Of course, this is a rare case, and not everyone can marry a princess.
Although women are still at a disadvantage in many ways, our country's laws are constantly improving and vigorously protecting women's rights.