In ancient times, child brides were a special group, which was very popular in ancient mainland China. So, what kind of group are child brides, and what is their life like? To put it bluntly, this is the curse of no money, and it is forbidden to continue! Today, let's take a look!
First, let's take a look at why the child bride? Child brides-in-law are also called "young daughters-in-law" and "adoptive daughters-in-law", as the name suggests, they are raised by their in-laws from an early age, and when the girls grow up to be fourteen or fifteen years old, they are officially married. Child brides were very common in ancient times, especially during the Qing Dynasty. To say that the history of this child bride is a long time ago, as early as the Three Kingdoms period there was a record of the phenomenon of child brides, the "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" mentioned: "Until the age of ten, the son-in-law's family will welcome the elder and raise her as a daughter-in-law." The marriage custom of child brides-in-law appeared in the Song Dynasty and gradually became a common phenomenon in society.
Leaving aside the special reasons of the ancient emperors and the child brides of the rich and noble families, it is very simple to say that the reason for the birth of this ancient folk child bridesmaid is very simple, that is, there is no money to cause trouble. In ancient times, the social productivity was low, the society was very poor and backward, and the life of the common people was very low. The poor simply do not have the money to marry their daughters-in-law, which is a bit of a fight with the sky-high bride price in some places where we cannot get it now. And the man does not need a bride price to adopt a child and a daughter-in-law, and when it is officially married, the ceremony is much simpler than the big marriage, do not spend much money, the female family does not accompany the dowry, there is no worry about breaking the family to marry the woman. As a result, just before the emergence of the emperor's child brides-in-law, this strange form of marriage, and it was out of control!
In ancient times, child brides were generally older than the man and took care of the man from an early age. After these child brides were brought back, they were not sent to school to study, and they did housework at home from an early age. If you encounter an evil woman, you will often be beaten and scolded, abused to the fullest, and live an extremely miserable life like a slave. When it comes to rounding the house, if the child bride refuses, she will take forced measures to round the house. Of course, there are also some child brides who are lucky enough to meet a good in-law, be regarded as their own, and live a good life in the in-laws' family. If the fiancé dies before marriage, or if the fiancé is unwilling to have a house with the child bride, the in-laws may allow the child bride to remarry or return to the mother's home, and some will be formally adopted as adopted daughters and treated as daughters. Of course, others sell them as maids or even prostitutes!
The relationship between these child brides and husbands when they are young is like that of a sibling or sibling, and they often have only affection between them, and most of them are difficult to establish love after marriage. In short, the ancient child brides were deformed social beings in a special historical period, although it was a helpless move to solve the problem of marriage and succession, but it was a little too unfair for these child brides. Even in some countries such as India at present, there is still a problem of child brides, which is very cute and urgently needs to be solved!