Preface
We often think that "polygamy" is the dregs of feudal society, so in modern society, some women have begun to propose "polyandry".
However, in today's world, there really is a country that practices the system of "polygamy", so which country is this country, and what kind of life do women live in this country?
Matrilineal and patrilineal societies
The productive forces determine the relations of production, and whoever has the strongest productive forces in the whole society will have a higher status than the other party, which is very applicable in the social environment.
Primitive society is a matriarchal society, after a child is born, he only knows who his mother is, but does not know who his father is, because women at that time were also able to participate in labor, and their labor ability also occupied a certain advantage.
It is also important to note that women are able to reproduce, and in primitive societies, women's wombs were considered sacred.
However, with the development of society, the relationship between productive forces began to change, and after entering the agricultural civilization, men had greater strength and had a certain sexual advantage, so men began to gradually grasp the right to speak, which is the so-called patriarchal society.
In a patrilineal society, if a man has a high enough status and enough property, he can have more female resources, so the status of men is very high in feudal society, and the status of women begins to decline.
However, in feudal society, not everyone can have many women, ordinary people are still monogamous, if there are some people who are too poor, they also have the possibility of not marrying a daughter-in-law.
In modern society, the status of women began to improve rapidly, because after the two world wars, the development of science and technology was very rapid, strength is no longer the only way to obtain resources, and women can also rely on their own labor to obtain certain survival resources.
Therefore, the institution of society, as well as the institution of marriage, depends to a large extent on whether or not it has access to more means of production in society.
The polyandry system is also based on such a situation, but there are different situations in the polyandry system.
In some polyandry systems, the status of women is very high, and women also have the absolute right to speak in the whole family.
However, in some places, although polyandry is the case, the status of women is not very high, and Nepal is the second case......
First marriage
Nepal is a country between the mainland and India, about 150,000 kilometers of land, with a population of 30 million, because of geographical constraints and other reasons, Nepal is very poor.
Many people rely on agriculture for their livelihood, and local agriculture is generally done purely by manpower, so its production efficiency is also limited.
But the country is also bound by the traditional idea that a family with many children means that the family is prosperous, but more children means that they need to raise these children.
In such a situation, the family tends to become poorer, and Nepalese women, in such an environment, do not have a high status and status.
Nepalese women have been married at least twice in their lifetime, and their first marriage was not even with a single person, and Nepali women have a wedding between the ages of seven and nine.
Before getting married, parents should first choose a better "groom" for their daughter, and this groom is "Belgo", because the object of marriage is a fruit, so Nepalese people also call this kind of marriage "fruit marriage".
When a wedding is held, it is often necessary for many people to come together, and those girls who are going to get married will also dress up very solemnly on that day, and after all the ceremonies, the girls will wrap their "groom" in red cloth.
Later in life, this "groom" will accompany the girl for a lifetime, and the second marriage is a marriage in the traditional sense!
Second marriage
Because Nepal is so poor, sometimes a family has several sons, and they don't have enough money to marry each of their sons.
However, their customs also gave them the idea that they had to pass on their ancestry, and in order to solve this situation, there was the emergence of the "polyandry" system.
In a family, several brothers often share a wife, so there is no need to worry about not having a wife, but then there are many problems.
The first question is whether it is one person or several people when you get married? And then there is the financial power of the family after marriage, or how to solve some problems? Or perhaps, after having children, how do you raise them?
The people of Nepal can naturally think of the problems that we can think of, and they also have solutions to these problems.
In such a family, the eldest brother is very important, and when getting married, it is generally the eldest brother and the woman who get married, but the life after marriage is that several people live together.
If something big happens in the family, it is also decided by the eldest brother, and as for the child born, if you don't know who is the father of the child, it will also be raised together.
When the child grows up, he will call the eldest brother his father and the other fathers uncle, but generally speaking, men still prefer to have their own offspring.
Therefore, if conditions permit, Nepalese women need to ensure that their husbands and each person can have a offspring of their own.
If a woman is a woman, she can have up to five husbands at the same time, and their husbands are generally brothers, because if they are not brothers, it is indeed difficult to calculate in some aspects.
But after these women marry men, they need to have children without interruption, and if they have children, they will also have great damage to the woman's body.
Therefore, the average life expectancy of Nepalese women is not high, and even in their later years, their bodies have a lot of root causes, and "polygamy" is also very common in remote areas.
However, with the deepening of the modernization process, such institutions in Nepal began to disappear, the status of women began to improve, and people began to practice monogamy......