As a man, how many wives do you wish you had? Like the ancient royal family and nobles have three wives and four concubines is the dream of many men, but this dream, Thai men have long been realized, it is said that in Thailand, a man can marry several wives, and even can marry animals as wives, such a strange custom is true? Why is this unethical polygamy not prohibited? Where did this system begin?
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Thailand this country is said to be a bit strange on the body, a lot of customs and habits make people easy to look at the jaw, and polygamy is one of the strange customs of Thailand, Thailand is a rare polygamy country in the world, the reason for the emergence of polygamy, mainly because the proportion of men and women is very unbalanced, Thailand also has "shemale" this kind of person, resulting in a very small number of Thai men, in this case, Thai cuisine allows men with sufficient economic conditions to have multiple wives.
Although Thai men can marry multiple wives, but Thai law only allows monogamy, it sounds very contradictory, that is to say, a Thai man really has only one wife, the others are small wives, just like the ancient Chinese concubines, so a Thai man may only have one wife in the eyes of outsiders, in fact, there may be several small wives in the family, so how can you know how many wives a Thai man has?
This is another custom in Thailand - water wife, in addition to the legal sense of the wife, other little wives are not called "water wife", why is it called "water wife"? This is because many places in Thailand do not have running water, the main job of many wives is to fill the water tank, so it is jokingly called "water wife" by thais, want to know how many wives a man has, look at the number of water tanks placed at the door, is it very strange, compared to Thai polygamy, the three wives and four concubines in ancient mainland China look normal a lot, so what is polygamy in ancient China?
Did you know how many wives men had in ancient China? Many people think that the mainland in ancient times and Thailand is the same as polygamy, can only say that everyone misunderstood big, the mainland has never had polygamy, from ancient times to the present is monogamous, all along, we see that there are many women around ancient men, just think of this as polygamy, in fact, just take the concubine as a wife, concubines are actually no wife status, to the Republic of China period everyone is not called concubines, began to call the big room small room or big wife small wife, this is not polygamy, a man even if there are ten women, If the wife dies, the man becomes single, and he must marry another woman as a wife, and the other women around him are concubines after all
So what exactly does a concubine mean? Many people know the word concubine, from the idiom of three wives and four concubines, three wives and four concubines is a marriage system in ancient China, concubines in ancient family life, only assumed the responsibility of having children, is not able to enjoy the special treatment of "wife", according to the patriarchal etiquette system and the common ethics, "wife" is the ming media is marrying into the door of the woman, and concubines can only be concubines, the wife's social status is very high, the family origin is also very good, and concubines are extremely lowly and lowly women in social status, concubines are equivalent to servants or maids, in an oppressed position, So we can clearly see the difference between wives and concubines in ancient times, so that in ancient times, the mainland was not at all polygamous like Thailand, and even the emperor could only have one empress, and the others were concubines. However, there are also many friends who think that the group of wives and concubines is not completely monogamous, so when did mainland monogamy begin?
Do you know when the mainland started monogamy? In fact, the monogamy system as early as ancient times had a clear law stipulated, Tang Gaozong's "Yonghui Law Shuo" has a "household marriage" stipulated: "Those who have wives who marry more wives, apprentice for one year, the female family is reduced by one grade; if the fraud is married, the disciple is one and a half years, and the female family does not sit, and each leaves." This means that a man already has a wife that the Media is marrying, and if he wants to marry another wife, he will go to jail for a year, and even the wife who marries into the door will also go to jail, and after going to prison, he will be forced to divorce the second wife, but this is not complete monogamy, the real monogamy system on the mainland is in 1912, that is, in the first year of the Republic of China, when the state promulgated the "Provisional Law of the Republic of China".
It clearly stipulates the implementation of monogamy, and then in the "Marriage Law of the People's Republic of China" promulgated on May 1, 1950, monogamy was included in the law, China began to formally implement monogamy from that time, since then Chinese men can no longer marry concubines, and many men still can't figure out why monogamy is there, what are the benefits of monogamy?
Fudan University humanities professor Li Ming once studied monogamy, he finally came to the conclusion that monogamy is two-sided, there are advantages and disadvantages, the advantage is that when the country's women are not unbalanced, you can effectively use male resources, but if a country has more women and fewer men, monogamy is prone to appear under the monogamous system, in addition, monogamy also indirectly protects women's interests, because this can ensure that every man will only have one woman, to ensure the love between men and women. In general, monogamy is the most suitable system for today's society, especially in many countries for women's rights is only improving, so monogamy is the system that should be implemented in the world now.
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