In ancient times, why women's bodies had not yet grown well and they married at the age of fifteen, in fact, this was nothing more than this
At present, some news has exposed the fact that some minors are pregnant as mothers, and such things will attract the attention of many people once the media fermentation, after all, minors are not allowed to get married in China. Many people may say that in ancient times, some women became pregnant at the age of fourteen or fifteen, so they used this to refute that minors also had the right to procreate. But if you look closely, the two situations are different.
In ancient society, because the productivity was relatively underground, the production equipment was not advanced, and productivity could only be increased by increasing the labor force, so whether a country was strong or not depended largely on the indicator of population. So in ancient times many rulers encouraged procreation. Later, during the Western Zhou Dynasty, the state also explicitly stipulated that all women who reached the age of 15 must marry, and could not exceed 25 years old at the latest.
By the Warring States period, social unrest and poor wars led to a sharp decline in population, so countries began to encourage fertility in order to improve their military strength, and The Duke of Qi Huan even ordered that women need to marry when they were 14 years old.
In successive dynasties, there have been very strict regulations on the age of marriage for women, saying that there are policies at the top and countermeasures at the bottom. Although the imperial court stipulated this, after all, the girls they had raised for more than ten years did not contribute to their families and immediately married, so many families did not want their daughters to marry early. Later, during the han huidi period, a very strict "single tax" was issued, and if a woman was not married after the age of 15, she had to pay five times the poll tax.
Although ancient people had a short life expectancy and matured earlier than modern people, would it be too early to marry at the age of 15? Is it really good for the body to marry and have children so early? It is also known that the medical conditions in ancient times were also very backward. In fact, in response to this problem, many ministers have also reacted to the emperor, after all, women give birth to children so early, the health of the children born is inevitably not guaranteed. But even so, under the temptation of the demographic dividend, many dynasties still encourage early marriage.
In fact, it is very normal for the ruler to have such a thought, after all, if a woman marries after the age of 15 and conceives a child and is born smoothly, it will soon be able to reproduce two generations in 30 years. After all, the reality is very bone, in fact, many women in childbirth due to medical treatment, either difficult childbirth or postpartum illness and death, which is also one of the reasons for the low survival rate of the population.