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In ancient times, there was a word full of poetry and reverie, it was the palace sand. But what exactly is this mysterious word? Is it real? How did ancient women test their virginity? This article will demystify this mystery and present it to you one by one.
In the beginning, the sand was not associated with women's chastity, but with houses. In ancient times, those who selected concubines for the emperor in the court used a method of dyeing the palace drapery, called palace guarding sand. This fashion gradually spread to the people, and literati followed suit. They dotted a red mole on the girl's white arm to show the woman's chastity, changing the meaning of "guarding the palace" into the beauty of guarding the woman's body.
However, this practice lacks scientific basis and reflects more the ancient concept of women as the private property of men. The history of Shougong Sand dates back to the Han Dynasty and is recorded in the books of the Fang Shu Scholars, as well as in some medical classics. According to ancient records, the methods used by the ancients to check a woman's virginity included feeding geckos with cinnabar, observing whether the gecko's color changed, and dyeing a woman's body. These methods were passed down among the people and became one of the ways to test women's chastity in ancient societies.
In ancient times, female chastity was considered extremely important, and loss of virginity was almost equivalent to losing life for women. In contrast, men's "immorality" is less severe. Therefore, people have taken a variety of ways to tell if a woman has lost her virginity, and here are some of them:
1. Stable mother's physical examination: Before marriage, the unmarried woman will invite the stable woman to come for a physical examination, that is, the midwife or female relatives, through a full body examination to determine whether the woman has experienced sexual intercourse.
2. Observe whether it is red: In ancient times, newlyweds spread a white cloth on the bed and observed whether the white cloth had blood stains after sex, so as to judge the woman's chastity. However, this method is not accurate, because sometimes the virgin body does not appear bloodstained.
3. Physiognomy: It is believed that a woman's eyebrows and placket shape can tell if she is a virgin.
4. Blood test: The ancients believed that the blood of a virgin woman would condense into beads when dropped into water, rather than dissipate.
5. Sneezing wind: A very bizarre method of making a woman stand by the brazier without clothes, and then stimulate the woman's nose with feathers and other objects to see if the fire ash in the brazier can be blown away when sneezing.
6. Horseshoe soil: A quirky method of using earth trampled by horseshoe traveling eastward to hide inside a woman's collar to see if it "reveals itself between words."
These methods, while varied, are almost all unfounded. They are imposed on women and embody the idea of gender inequality in ancient societies. In any case, these ancient traditions have faded over time in favor of more egalitarian and scientific methods of assessing women's chastity in modern society. We should cherish this progress, abandon outdated, baseless notions, and continue to work for a gender-equal society.
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