In ancient times, the number of men who died in wars was not much to talk about, and there must have been women who became widows, and these women generally have to be divided into several situations:
-01- Childless Return: A childless woman will return to her home
Before the Song Dynasty, marriage was still relatively free, and if the husband died, if he did not give birth to an heir, he could return to his own family.
During the Southern Dynasties, Zhang Ji's daughter Chu Qiong married Huiji Kong, but because she did not give birth to an heir, she returned to her home.
From this point of view, if your husband died in battle and has no children at the same time, she can return to her own family.
-02- In fact, the matter of remarriage in ancient times also existed
Before the Song Dynasty, women's freedom to marry was not subject to serious restrictions on etiquette, and if the husband died in battle, she could remarry.
During the Northern and Southern Dynasties, even the royal princesses and harems remarried when their husbands died. After the death of Emperor Xiaowu of the Northern Wei Dynasty, the empress remarried Yuan Shao, the grandson of Yuanxian, the king of Pengcheng; Empress of Emperor Xiaojing of the Northern Wei Dynasty, later married Yang Su.
From this point of view, remarriage was actually allowed in some dynasties in ancient times. In the case of her husband dying in battle, the woman can also choose to remarry.
-03- Cases in which conversion and remarriage are not possible
After the Song Dynasty, under the constraints of etiquette and religion, women's marriage was actually greatly restricted. If you meet your husband after death, you will choose to be a widow for the rest of your life.
Moreover, if there is no heir and no family protection, the widow of the deceased man will also encounter the situation of "eating out of the household", that is, the family property is divided among other clansmen.
However, in ancient times, there was also a pension system for the families of soldiers killed in war, and in the Song Dynasty, there were pensions for the widows and orphans of soldiers who died in battle.
In general, in ancient times, so many men were often killed in war, and women's choices were actually nothing more than several: they could choose to return to their own home or remarry, and if they couldn't, they could only choose to keep festivals. However, they may encounter the situation of being "eaten out of the household", and they may also receive a pension from the imperial court.
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