From ancient times to the present, Chinese has regarded the matter of extending heirs as very important. In the old days, whether rich or poor, every household would ensure that at least one man was left as a handover, raising him to adulthood and taking care of the whole family.
From the perspective of the elders of the family, the reasons for insisting on raising male heirs are simple: first, in order to rely on their own old age, have someone to take care of, and not be bullied by neighbors and strangers; Then there is the inheritance of one's own hard work, which can be inherited by future generations and avoid falling into the hands of strangers.
However, fate tricks people, and the male head of the family passes away unexpectedly, leaving a young wife or only daughter who has no power to tie the chicken, and the heart is like ashes in the face of being divided and eaten. How dehumanizing was the Qing Dynasty's "eating the dead"? Relatives and friends were cruelly framed, and the fate of wives and daughters was even more tragic.
A source of food for extinct households
In fact, according to rumors, the initial "eating of the family" may not be a cold and cruel partition action, but a spontaneous goodwill. There are orphans and widows in the village, who have just lost their fathers or husbands, and they have a sum of money, but they have no ability to dispose of it, and relatives and friends spontaneously help them to make funeral offerings and handle all trivial matters.
After the hard work, not only to express gratitude, but also to ensure that the funeral is a big pomp, everyone will have a meal together, and the mountain treasures and seafood will be presented to the table as much as possible. But I don't know when it started, everything slowly changed. Human nature is inherently evil, the seven aunts stole a vase from the owner of the family, the eight aunts' family stole a little, the second uncle's family was not well-off, and he kept throwing the widow to hold another banquet for guests...
When the time came to the Qing Dynasty, the people's lives were in deep trouble, and the days became more and more difficult. In their eyes, a weak only daughter or widow is like a piece of fat at their fingertips, and it would be a pity if they could not be slaughtered to treat themselves. Finally, this custom evolved into that when a family dies and there is no son to rely on, the relatives and neighbors in the township will consume their inheritance in the form of a feast, inviting everyone to eat and divide the wealth, and the feast of flowing water is a few months long, called "eating the family".
The fate of eating the family
At this moment, the people who have been eaten out of their homes must be desperate in their hearts. Those who go in and out of the house every day to loot property may often be the closest relatives, friends, neighbors, etc. before, and under the trend of interests, they are out of control with crooked thoughts, and the locusts are not willing to leave a dime to the orphan girl and widow.
People who are "eaten to death" also want to resist and protect the inheritance left by their relatives, but they are too weak to have the right to speak, and no one will listen. If it is too ugly, the relatives will also force a righteous son to pass, so as to justifiably take away the entire inheritance.
Moreover, the most tragic thing is that at this time, "eating and exterminating households" has become a customary custom, coupled with the local clan forces, this kind of matter cannot be interfered with by the government, and the women and children who have been divided up of property have no place to seek help, and can only watch as their homes are emptied.
In the end, the only daughter or widow who has been "eaten to death" has no money to support herself, and their hearts are scars after being hurt by human nature, and they will continue to be bullied if they stay in the local area, but they are even more helpless outside, and they can no longer find a way to survive.
Don't want to be eaten off
Or have already witnessed the tragic scene of "eating the family", or hearsay has said that it is terrible, the family may have known that the "eating the family" is terrible, and they have done everything in their power to prevent the trouble. They want to inherit the family property by giving birth to children and achieve internal circulation, but sometimes the heavens are not beautiful, the male ding has not yet been born to complete the task of guarding the small family, the father will die, and the remaining mother is not the object of kneading and flattening?
They also thought that they could rely on the powerful matriarch to lean on and find the protection of the matriarch after the change in the family and escape the disaster. However, Lin Daiyu is a living example, the Jia family is such a high-ranking household, indeed protected their granddaughter from being "eaten by the neighbors", but in the end it was his own hands little by little.
Therefore, confined to the limitations of the social environment, it is inevitable to "eat the household". This is the sadness of the times, because the fate has long been unable to change, so it is even more chilling.
Modern eaters
Perhaps in the past, the background of the times gave the suffering of "eating the desperate household" to thousands of families, so in the modern society, the face of life has undergone earth-shaking changes, and has the "eating the desperate household" disappeared from our lives?
The answer is no, society is changing, human nature is not, the "eating out" between neighbors is gone, but the seeds of bullying for profit are still in this land, and the concept has been extended into a new form, active among small families.
For example, if a young father is killed and dies, according to the law, the family is full of relatives who can be paid compensation, and the new widow is the daughter of someone else's family, who has no right to speak. In this case, who wouldn't be blind to a lucrative compensation and the property left behind?
What's more, with the increase of only children, the expansion of the Dink family, etc., the nursing home has become the final choice of many people. A large part of the people will wonder if it is really not a new "eating" resort, but the people who "eat" have become strange nurses, and the people who are "eaten" are no longer women, but old people who are like babies.
Since ancient times, the so-called "eating the house" is nothing more than the deprivation of the vulnerable groups by the powerful groups, but the evil of the human heart overcoming the evil over the good, and the truest manifestation of the evil side of human nature. It turns out that raising children to prevent old age is not old, it is people.
epilogue
What is eaten away from the family is not the property of orphans and widows, but the good thoughts that exist in people's hearts. Looking at other people's stories, we denounce those who have lost their conscience and let the orphan girl and widowed mother bear the double grief of family death and property at the same time. However, in the face of huge profits, how many people can we trust to stick to our hearts?
This problem is not easy to solve in a short period of time, people's hearts are unpredictable, they have inferior roots, and people who carry property on their bodies still make plans for themselves early, and it is better not to be picked up by people with hearts. We also believe that as society develops and personal wealth increases, the idea of depriving money from other places will gradually weaken, and this kind of thing will always gradually become less and less, until it disappears.
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