In ancient mainland China, marriage was arranged by parents, and few people were able to marry privately contrary to their parents' wishes, and if their parents opposed it, they could not get married. Some people have marriages assigned by their parents at a very young age, and when they grow up, when they reach the age of marriage, whether they want to or not, they must fulfill their original promises.
During the Song Dynasty, a very special thing happened in Tengyang County, Shandong Province. An old man married three daughters to the same person, the eldest daughter married the second daughter after her death, and the second daughter then gave him the younger daughter after her death. It can be seen how much this old father-in-law recognizes this son-in-law.
The son-in-law's name was Zhang Xiaochun, born in a peasant family, but he liked to read, and by chance, the old man met Zhang Xiaochun, who was very optimistic about this poor and ambitious reader, and he often funded Zhang Xiaochun's studies, and even gave him his eldest daughter Xu.
With the strong support of his father-in-law, Zhang Xiaochun became a jinshi in mid-1089 and became an official. Zhang Xiaochun's career then went all the way, and finally became the prefect of Taiyuan. But Zhang Xiaochun's wife died a few years after marriage. Many people gave him a matchmaker, but in order to repay his father-in-law's kindness, Zhang Xiaochun decided to marry his father-in-law's second daughter, who had no right to object and entered the house as a wife.
However, this second lady also had a thin life, and after marrying, she died after giving birth to two sons for Zhang Xiaochun, and Zhang Xiaochun had no wife at this time. Since two wives died in a row, it was not intended to be married. Later, due to dynastic political problems, the helpless Zhang Xiaochun was taken prisoner for a period of time, and after his later release, many people in the Northern Song Dynasty were reluctant to be with Zhang Xiaochun, and everyone avoided him. His father-in-law saw it in his eyes, and his father-in-law knew that Zhang Xiaochun was not easy. He then decided to marry his third daughter to him.
Zhang Xiaochun knew that everyone said that he had a wife, so he rejected his father-in-law's kindness and did not want to drag down the third daughter. But the father-in-law was very insistent, and Zhang Xiaochun finally had to agree.
In this way, Zhang Xiaochun married three daughters of his father-in-law's family in a row. After the third lady came, things seemed to be going well, and the matter of the wife was never happened again. Miss Three also bore him two children and raised her two children as her own. Zhang Xiaochun's marriage can be considered stable, and the speech in society is self-defeating. Later, Zhang Xiaochun found an excuse to return home from the imperial court, and the family lived a happy and happy life. Locally, the story of three daughters and a husband has also become a good story.