Don't even think about it, don't say it's a roommate, even if it's a good concubine, it's a dream to want to sit on an equal footing with his wife.
In many film and television works now, there are often plots of concubines being spoiled and bullying the main room, but in the real ancient times, this was impossible.
In fact, the so-called "three wives and four concubines" is a wrong statement, because in ancient times we also practiced monogamy, and there were many concubines outside the wife, but concubines were also divided into many kinds, such as the housemates, but all of these could not be compared with the wives.
Many people think that in ancient times, people could take concubines at will, but in fact, it was wrong, since the pre-Qin era, the difference between wives and concubines has already appeared, the wife is the master, and the concubine is the slave.
Marrying a wife is a complicated and very exquisite thing, and the three books and six ceremonies are married, because the wife is the master.
But concubines are completely different, the ancient concubine entrance is called "Na", to put it bluntly, as long as you spend money, you don't need any ritual activities, just like buying things.
For a long time, there was a rule of good and lowly people not to marry in ancient times, and the right wives were all married from the white family, and the more high-ranking and noble the door, the higher the requirements for the door, and the concubines were often the daughters of those who were born of untouchables and criminals.
Since the time of the Southern and Northern Dynasties, the distinction between wives and concubines has been clearly stated in the law, and concubines are untouchables and concubines are traded.
In the eyes of the ancients, although concubines could serve the lord of the family, they were not fundamentally different from the slaves in the family, and even lowered the status of concubines than those slaves who did not have a deed.
Even if she is a good concubine of the Eight Classics of Zheng'er, once she becomes a concubine, she is a slave, a slave of the lord and the mother of the family.
In ancient times, the main monarch and mother of the family could dispose of the concubines at will, give them away, sell them, or even beat them to death, which was no problem, did not violate the laws of the time, and showed how big the difference between wives and concubines was.
People marry their wives in order to take care of the housework and have children, and concubines are mainly for the sake of children and pleasure, and there is even a saying that is called "marrying a wife and marrying a virtuous, taking a concubine is Israel."
The wife is born of a child, and the concubine is born of a concubine, and even if it is a child, she must be called a mother.
Because of personal emotional reasons, it may not have happened in ancient times that the lord of the family favored the concubine room and snubbed the wife, but even so, the concubine room should not be delusional to replace the wife, even if it is on an equal footing.
Before the Ming and Qing dynasties, fuzheng concubine room for the wife is a major crime, called "wife and concubine loss rank", violators will be fined, reprimanded, exiled, and even in the Ming and Qing dynasties can be corrected, but it is also a very bad thing, most people are not willing to do it for the sake of fame.
Now some people mistakenly think that in ancient times, people wanted to take concubines, but in fact, this was not the case, because there were also relevant restrictions on concubines in the past, such as merchants and others who could not take concubines, and they could not take concubines without meeting certain conditions.
Because concubinage is more troublesome, so the ancients thought of another way, so the concept of a universal room was born.
Those who are relatively wealthy, but do not meet the standard of concubines, will raise a lot of singers, dancers and squirrels at home, and they can still serve them, and the children born are also counted as concubines.
However, the status of the concubine is even lower than that of the concubine, and the ancient concubines also had to go to the official court to sign documents, which is also a relatively formal commodity, and the tongfang does not even have a concubine name, and its situation can be imagined how tragic it is.
In ancient times, if a proper family divorced or divorced his wife, or if his wife died, and the position of the head of the family was vacated, it was not the turn of the concubine to ascend to the throne, because the lord would marry a new wife, called the continuation or succession.
Once you become a concubine, you are basically always a concubine, basically there is no hope to change.
In the late Qing Dynasty, Yuan Shikai's biological mother Liu Shi died, and Yuan Shikai wanted to bury him in his ancestral tomb, but was rejected by his brother Yuan Shidun, because Yuan Shidun was born of a proper wife, and Yuan Shikai's biological mother was only a concubine, even if Yuan Shikai was a directly subordinate governor at that time.
In ancient times, there was a saying called "I'd rather be a farmer's wife than a rich concubine", because the difference between wives and concubines is too great, and even concubines cannot compete with their wives, nor can they replace their wives' status, let alone the nameless and undivided goods of the house, replacing the right wife? Don't even think about it.