In recent years, young people's lifelong events have become the most headache for parents.
In fact, not only parents are worried, but young people themselves are also very worried about this. If they could, who wouldn't want to find a partner who would like to find them? But under the double pressure of high bride price and high housing prices, modern young people really can't afford to get married.
In the past, for fear of too many people, the relevant departments also deliberately advocated late marriage and late childbearing, and regarded this as an important policy to implement. It's good now, young people don't need to be reminded, and they have taken the initiative to practice the policy of late marriage and late childbearing. Nowadays, the problem of marriage and childbirth among young people has become a social problem that cannot be ignored.
In China, a traditional and ancient country, people's views on marriage have always been relatively traditional, and getting married and having children is also considered the top priority in life. However, many young people nowadays would rather "beat a single" than get married, which is really a matter that worries countless parents.
Speaking of this marriage problem, many people may be curious about how the ancients solved the marriage problem of "bachelors"? I have to say that the wisdom of our ancestors in this regard is really unconvinced.
In ancient times, due to the influence of wars, natural disasters and other reasons, the phenomenon of men of appropriate age not being able to marry wives also troubled the rulers of the imperial court for a time. In order to solve this problem, different dynasties in ancient times issued corresponding policies.
For example, in the late Qin and early Han dynasties, due to the continuous wars, the people were displaced, and all aspects of production also came to a standstill. After Liu Bang established the Han Dynasty and unified the world, he found that many young men were too poor to marry wives and have children.
Liu Bang believed that this was an issue that needed to be brought to the attention of the imperial court. If the people did not marry and have children, the population of the country would become smaller and smaller, the fields would become barren if no one was cultivated, and the taxes of the imperial court would drop significantly.
In order to restore the population as soon as possible, Liu Bang issued a decree requiring women to marry when they reached the age of 15. If a woman does not marry at this age, she has to pay a large poll tax to the imperial court. When a woman gets married, she is exempt from this tax.
I have to say that Liu Bang's idea is really a salary draw. In order to save this tax, many families have to hurriedly marry off their daughters. Even in order to get his daughter married as soon as possible, he didn't even want a bride price, and he would in turn marry a large dowry.
The reason why Liu Bang implemented this policy was actually a helpless move. Because if you want to restore the productivity of the Han Dynasty as soon as possible, you must increase the population as soon as possible. But if everyone doesn't get married, how can we talk about population recovery? Not only Liu Bang, but also Goujian, the king of Yue, also implemented a similar policy.
In addition, in order to solve the problem of "bachelors", the ancient imperial court also set up institutions to help school-age men start families. For example, in ancient times, the role of the "official media" was roughly equivalent to the official marriage agency set up by the imperial court, they would introduce men of appropriate age to each other, and even subsidize their marriage.
In order to reduce the difficulty of "bachelors" marrying wives, the ancient imperial court can be said to have taken great pains, such as encouraging widows to remarry, limiting the number of concubines taken by wealthy people, and so on. In different eras in ancient times, the imperial court would introduce some corresponding policies to help the "bachelors" get rid of the status of singles.
Some people may wonder why the ancient court attached so much importance to people's marriage issues. This is mainly because in ancient times, population was the most important resource and one of the main criteria for measuring the strength of a country. For any dynasty, the greater the population, the more soldiers could be requisitioned, and the more farmers could plough the fields, which was an important foundation for a strong dynasty.
Of course, these policies implemented in ancient times, while very useful, do not correspond to the situation of modern society. For example, measures such as marrying and paying a poll tax without getting married actually have their limitations, ignoring the emotional factors of men and women.
However, in the ancient society dominated by agricultural civilization, such a policy did play a very important role in promoting the recovery of the ancient population and the development of productive forces.