Now, the lineup of young people to marry is not only mom and dad, but also the seven aunts and eight aunts who are most keen to find you a partner, which can't help but make young people more and more afraid of going home to see relatives.
In ancient times, it was not uncommon for relatives to urge marriage, but unlike now, ancient relatives urging marriage may be more about marrying their own daughters, preferably marrying relatives' children.
This now seems abnormal, it is a violation of ethics, and it is also a violation of the law, but in the ancient view of marriage, it was best to kiss and kiss. Therefore, in ancient times, there were many cousins who became relatives.
This is because the ancient people attached great importance to the bloodline, the larger the family will feel that the bloodline is very important, such as the royal bloodline, which is sacred and inviolable, so many times, in order not to tarnish the royal bloodline, brothers and sisters can be married when they grow up.
It's just that there are not many such cases, and the most common is the relationship between cousins and sisters, such as the love tragedy we are familiar with, Lu You and Tang Wan, they are cousins, as well as Wang Xianzhi and Xi Daomao.
Let the cousins get married, not only the family affection, but also the two people have known each other since childhood, the emotional foundation is also relatively deep, and the life after marriage can be more harmonious.
Logically, such a thing would have been good, but why stop it now, now that science and technology are developed, scientific research has found that people with blood relations have more unhealthy children after marriage, so in order to ensure the survival rate and health of children, so that the matter of kissing and kissing has been stopped.
Although there was no such science and technology in ancient times, but cousins have been married for a long time, and most of the children born with problems should be discovered, so why not stop it?
First of all, the simplest is that the ancient famous people pay great attention to their own reputation, if the child is born out of a deformed child, it is a very humiliating thing, and after the birth of the deformed child in ancient times, it will be considered that the child brings not good luck but disaster, so many deformed children are strangled at birth.
If you can't bear to put the child to death, you will also let the child give the child to outsiders or throw it away, these can be their own decisions, will not be punished by the law, or there is no way to let the child stay at home, but one possibility is that the child will not live too long, and there is also a way not to announce to the outside that there is a child in his family who is deformed and will hide in the deep wall compound of his own home.
Second, in ancient times, the practice of polygamy and concubine system, cousins married does not delay cousins to take concubines, especially after cousins get married, two people may not be able to conceive children, even children can not be born, how can they worry about unhealthy children.
Therefore, the children left in the name of the right wife are likely to be born by concubines, and the concubines are basically bought back, so there is no blood problem, and the children are basically healthy.
The most important thing is that the cousins we are talking about now may be the children of the aunt or the aunt's family, which are very close to their own blood, so they are prone to livestock deformity, but the relatives in ancient times were basically a very large family, and the cousins were only placed there in generations, and it was not impossible to be separated by 18,000 miles.
Such cousins are basically unrelated relatives, and marriage is like strangers, and the children they give birth to after marriage are basically healthy.
Therefore, the children born of the marriage of cousins in ancient times basically will not be as deformed as they are now, but now cousins cannot get married, and it is very good that brothers and sisters do not fight each other.