In ancient China, there were many things that happened when close relatives got married, especially the royal family and nobles liked to marry close relatives, one was to protect the noble and pure blood, and the other was to protect the interests of the royal family and family power and prevent the dilution of power.
Marriage of inbreeding
Therefore, many times the emperor marries the right wife, that is, the empress, most of them do not have the right to choose independently, but to marry their mother's cousins, nieces, etc. who are extremely close blood relations, or the daughters of a certain family, in order to maintain the power and prestige of their own family.
In the TV series "Young Heavenly Son", the Shunzhi Emperor Fu Lin, played by Deng Chao, was arranged by his mother Empress Xiaowenzhuang to marry his niece, that is, the emperor's cousin Princess Horqin.
The Princess of Korqin has a stubborn personality, and Shunzhi does not like each other and dislikes each other, but the two who have no choice can only barely live together and begin a tragic marriage that is difficult to twist and turn.
After the empress made herself a cold palace, the Shunzhi Emperor did not have the right to choose, but married the daughter of his eldest cousin, or a princess from the empress dowager Borjigit's family.
Therefore, the Shunzhi Emperor, who could only marry a relative of the Borzigit family for a lifetime, originally had rejection and disapproval of family marriage, including the intricate interests involved, and how could he let down his guard and like his wife.
After meeting Dong Efei, who had no family in-laws, she really relaxed and loved a woman wholeheartedly, without any interest relationship, so this love became uncontrollable.
After the death of Princess Dong Efei and Shunzhi's crown prince, Concubine Dong was also ill and died of incense. The Shunzhi Emperor also died because of the death of Concubine Dong, and his health deteriorated, and finally ran to become a monk because of depression in his heart, so that he was killed.
Of course, there were many emperors who were forced to marry close women, such as Emperor Hui of Han, who was even more miserable, and at the age of twenty, he was forced by Lü Hou, who was in power, to marry his niece Zhang Yan, who was only seven or eight years old.
Naturally, Lü Hou naturally wanted to consolidate the power of her mother's family, so that she would not care about the life and death of her son and niece. Although these emperors seem to have the supreme power, there are still invisible interests in this power, which affect the whole body.
Especially those emperors who were held back by the empress dowager, the days were even more miserable, not only did they say it themselves, but everything depended on the face of the empress dowager, and even if they married anyone, they had to marry their families.
Kiss and kiss
In the past era, many backward folk mountain villages also had such a custom of marriage between close relatives, so that they could kiss each other.
But in addition to the two married people who are married, they cannot change their identities psychologically and have no feelings. The most important thing is that the marriage of close relatives will lead to a high probability of the child born becoming a deformed child or having a serious mental disability, or even being born weak, and the probability of dying is very large.
Especially after giving birth to a deformed child, not only will the child have an extremely miserable life in this life, but even the parents will live in pain and misfortune for a lifetime.
As early as the 1950s in the countryside of Hubei, there was a fifteen-year-old girl who married her cousin who was six years older than herself because of arranged marriages.
Backward ideas make it better for these two families to be close to each other, and they have not considered the consequences of the marriage of close relatives at all. Of course, at that time, medicine and people's cognition were not developed, and naturally in this small mountain village, they would not know the harm of marriage between close relatives.
Fortunately, the first child born to Chen Xiuying and her husband was a healthy boy, which convinced the two families how correct this marriage was.
In the past, the more children were born in the mountain villages, the better, and the prosperity of people was also a kind of disguised show-off. Therefore, Chen Xiuying and her husband had a total of eight children.
Unfortunately, Heaven will not always take care of them. The first healthy boy was already unattainable good luck, so the few children who remained were out of luck.
As soon as Chen Xiuying's second child was born, everyone looked different from ordinary children, like a skinny monkey, and a bit like an ape man, which was very strange.
His family later took him to the hospital and was diagnosed with severe intellectual disability. However, the arrival of this poor child did not serve as a warning to the family, but rather to give birth to several healthy children.
But the third child will come to this world and die of congenital inadequacy, and the fifth child and the eighth child will be born with severe intellectual disability like the second child, and only four children are normal.
These three children are also enough to break a family, not to mention a poor family in a small mountain village. Three children whose intelligence is always stuck in the age of one or two years old must be taken care of at all times, and they cannot take care of themselves and cannot leave half a step.
And the height of the three children is always stuck at one meter and four meters, and the growth is getting stranger and stranger, the skull is unusually small, and the brain does not have any room for development. No matter how you teach, you can't learn to speak, you just cry like a child, and you won't do anything else.
Pour your heart and soul into it
Therefore, Chen Xiuying and her husband took care of the two children wholeheartedly, and on weekdays, they went to the fields to do farm work, and they could only go alone, and one person stayed at home to take care of the children, otherwise the three children would not survive at all.
The couple's life is not good at all, materially barren, can be diligent and frugal to live a family, but there are three such children, but they have to be manipulated day and night, and the treatment of and urine is not only physically tired, but also mentally overwhelming.
Although Chen Xiuying and her husband had also thought about trying to pool money to treat these three children, at least they could live on their own, and they were better than now. However, severe congenital intellectual disability cannot be cured by current medical conditions.
Chen Xiuying and her husband could only grit their teeth and insist on taking care of the three children, after all, they could not throw away their own flesh and bones. When her husband went out to work as a farmer and earn money, Chen Xiuying took care of her eight children at home.
Fortunately, other healthy children can live independently after they grow up and gradually leave the family.
However, the roof leaked during the overnight rain, and the husband also died of illness due to overwork. Only Chen Xiuying was left alone to pull three children who would never grow up.
Since then, Chen Xiuying's more tired life has come, she not only has to work in the field to earn money to support the family, after all, there are three mouths waiting to be fed at home, but also to take care of these three children day and night.
It takes a lot of time just to coax them to sleep, fortunately, sometimes the villagers can't look at it and kindly help Chen Xiuying, but this burden is still on Chen Xiuying's shoulders.
Chen Xiuying is now ninety-four years old, originally full of children and grandchildren, enjoying her old age, but for her, she still has to support and take care of three eldest children who are nearly sixty years old.
But fortunately, after the government learned about this matter, it also applied for subsidies for this poor family, and helped them as much as possible, which also made the life of Chen Xiuying's family better.
Ninety-four-year-old Chen Xiuying is still tough, and I believe that Chen Xiuying will continue to persevere for the sake of these three children, after all, these three children need her love.