After the death of Yuan Shikai's biological mother Liu Shi, he wanted to let his birth mother enter the ancestral tomb of the Yuan clan, but was rejected by his brother Yuan Shidun, who was just an ordinary person at that time, and Yuan Shikai was already a direct subordinate governor, but Yuan Shikai had no choice, because he was a concubine, and Yuan Shidun was a concubine.
Since ancient times, whether in terms of inheriting the family business or the actual status, the children of the concubine and the child are extremely different.
To some extent, even if the concubine is younger, it is still more noble than the concubine, and many children who have a family inheritance cannot inherit, and they cannot even call their birth mothers, which is the difference.
What is a concubine, what is a concubine, what is the ancient tradition of polygamy and concubinage, in this case, the wife and the concubine will have children, but the wife is the lord and the concubine is only a slave, and the children they give birth to are of course completely different.
The children born to the wife are concubines, and the children born to concubines and other women without names are classified as concubines.
If the right wife is gone, often the lord's family will marry another concubine, usually not to help the concubine as a wife, and the one who marries later is called the continuation string, and the child born to the wife of the continuation string is also counted as a concubine.
In addition to the concubines who were officially incorporated into the family, in ancient times, the children born to any woman other than the wife of the main house were all counted as children of the concubines, such as the tongfang, etc., that is, the wives were born as concubines, and the nextborns were all concubines.
Those who have obviously seen the Dream of the Red Chamber in the title know that although Jia Zheng's concubine Aunt Zhao gave birth to Jia Huan and Jia Tanchun, she was still called an aunt by her own children.
In ancient times, the children of a family could only call their father's wife as their mother, and if their birth mother was a concubine, they could only be called an aunt or a young bride.
This is evident in "Knowing or Not", as long as it is a child, it can only be called the birth mother as a young bride.
Not only could they not justifiably call their birth mothers, but before the pre-Qin and Southern and Northern Dynasties, the children of the family could not even call their fathers their fathers, but they had to call them adults, or other positions and titles on their fathers.
Inheriting the family business is the inheritance rule of the past, that is, the inheritance system of the eldest son, and its principle is "to establish a son to be noble and not to be long, and to be a concubine to be long and not to be virtuous."
To put it bluntly, when choosing an heir, it is necessary to see which honorable person to choose, not which elder to choose, and when choosing an heir from multiple concubines, it depends on who is older and who is preferred.
If the birth mother is the right wife, then the concubine is naturally noble, and his order of succession takes precedence over any other concubine, and only when there is more than one concubine, it will be arranged in the order of the eldest and youngest.
In ancient times, the titles, property, and status of the family were all inherited by the eldest son, and even the eldest son of the eldest son was also the eldest grandson, and his inheritance qualifications also took precedence over other descendants.
Around the time of the Two Song Dynasties, titles were still inherited by the head of the family, and such as property, other concubines could be allocated to a certain number, but they did not get anything.
In addition, for example, the right to preside over family sacrifices, etc., there are also descendants who are inherited, and even before they are minors, they are not allowed to participate in family sacrifices.
Compared with concubines, shuzi are naturally much inferior, and the daughters of shu are also much more miserable than concubines.
The difference between concubines and concubines is mainly reflected in the inheritance of family property, and the difference between concubines and concubines is often reflected in the dowry given by the mother's family when marrying, as well as the lintel of the husband's family, there is a great difference in high and low.
In ancient times, there was a saying called "I'd rather be a farmer's wife than a rich man's concubine", because the status of the concubine room is too low, it is basically like an object, as long as the lord's family is not happy, it can be disposed of at will.
Similar to the concubines, the children born to the concubines are always inferior to the children produced by the concubines.
The Central Plains region is still relatively good, such as in the ancient Goryeo and Li Dynasties, the children of Shu chu could not even enter the army without the qualifications to participate in the imperial examination, and the daughters of Shu Chu could not be the main lady, but could only be concubines.
In most of ancient times, the children of the concubines, whether in terms of status or living conditions, were far superior to the children of the concubines, which was also determined by thousands of years of clan etiquette and was difficult to change.