Recently, I was watching the Indian epic "Mahabharata", and once again refreshed the three views, and the chaotic character relationship of "Homer's Epic" is like a villain book in front of the Indian epic.
It's not because I'm writing about India, I'm on my knees licking Indian culture, the plot is like this, readers please listen to me slowly. In the next period of time, I will spend quite a long time reading the Mahabharata, and of course, whenever I read more interesting plots, I will share them with you.
Stills from the MAHABHARA DRAMA series
There is a saying on the Internet, "If you want to live a good life, you must have a little green on your head." "This is the joke of netizens, if it is really a little green on the head, it is estimated that there will not be many people who can get by."
But in India, there is a king who can be called the "Green Hat King", not only took the initiative to ask his wives to go out to find the old king, the wives did not agree, he even spent several days, from the side of the quotation, borrowing ancient metaphors, and finally persuaded his wife to successfully find the old king, put on the green hat, and after the wives gave birth to many sons for the old kings, happily lived a happy and happy life with the wives and the sons of the old kings.
<h1>The birth of a "Green Hat King"? </h1>
The story begins in the epic times of India!
Once upon a time in India, there was a king named Doufanda, who married a pure nun named Shagundara and gave birth to the mighty King Of Brahma, who was passed down for generations, and his descendants were called the Borneo people. The descendants of King Bharata have been passed down for several generations, and their descendants are called the Khulu people.
The story of the Mahabharata begins with a king named Fushimi, a descendant of the Kulu people of the Brahma. Fukumi has a special affection for water, and both of his favorite wives are related to the river. One is the goddess of the Ganges, and the other is The Fisherman's King's daughter Zhenxin. After Zhenxin and Fukujin got married, they bore him two sons, one died in battle, one died of illness, and had no heirs.
Before marriage, she had a son named Shimasei with the immortals, because the skin was relatively dark, and people called him Kuroshimasei, also known as the Black Immortal, and his other name was Viyasa, the author of the legendary Mahabharata.
After the death of both of his sons, Zhenxin sought out his black son Viyasa, and asked him and his two widows of his half-brother to give birth to Zhiguo and Bandu, and later to a slave girl, the future general Viduro.
He was born blind and succeeded to the throne.
This Pandu is our protagonist today.
The degree of generality in the TV series
Pandu could have been a happy king. He had prestige among the people, and married Princess Gonti of the Kingdom of Gonti and Princess Maderi of the Kingdom of Modero, both of whom were first-class beauties at that time.
In the TV series, Gunti marries Bando
Gundy in the TV series
But because Bando was hunting in the forest once, he shot a pair of elk who were doing shameful things. The deer was an immortal incarnation, and before he died, cursed Himdu would die in shame.
The "elk" Daisen couple who were shot and killed in the TV series
From then on, Bando took Gunti and Madelee to live an ascetic life in the woods. (Personally, I think it might be better for a person to do asceticism in this case than to bring his wife...) ）
Seeing that the others were full of children and grandchildren, and he did not even have a son and a half daughter, Bandu was distressed by the lack of heirs, and begged Gunti to freely choose a man to have several sons.
Gundy, who was not an ordinary woman, obtained The Consent of Pandu, and used the spell of summoning the gods learned from a Brahmin immortal when she was a young girl, and summoned the gods of the Dharma, the wind god, and Indra, and gave birth to her, Jianzhan, The Terrible Army, and Arjuna.
Gundy also helped another of Bando's wives, Madelee, summon a two-horse boy and give birth to a twin with Madelee, Tiantian and Seedless.
In this way, the two wives of Pandu bore him five sons, which are the famous 5 sons of Bandu in the history of the Mahabharata.
I thought the story would end like this, but, man, huh!
I have long said that if you really want to live an ascetic life, why bring two beautiful wives? Isn't that uncomfortable with yourself?
Bando's tenderness before death
In a bright spring season, Bando could not restrain himself, and did something he loved with Madeleine, that is, that day, he could not get up again, died under the peony flowers, and became a ghost. Madeleine, grief-stricken, followed her husband up to the crematorium.
The eldest wife, Gonti, returned to the palace alone from the forest with the five sons of Bandu...
<h1>The men and women behind the system of adoptive marriage</h1>
Bandu is a generation of famous kings, Xiao Yong is good at war, he let his wives and others pregnant and have children is not a stupid strategy, he is to preserve the descendants of the Bandu lineage, in their time has emerged the concept of ethical guidelines, which is why The wives of Bandu were not willing to have children from him at first, but out of the consideration of heirs, they compromised with Bandu.
Just as Bandu expected, the 5 children born to the two wives and the gods were all classified as the descendants of Bando, and the Bandu clan began with them.
The five sons of the General Degree in the Television Bureau
Looking at the Mahabharata, there are various marriage systems in the epic, such as group marriage, couple marriage, monogamy, polygamy, polygamy, and succession marriage.
Pradu's persuasion of wives to have children with others is a form of succession marriage.
Accepting a succession marriage should not be unfamiliar to everyone, usually it means that a widowed woman can be married by the relatives of her deceased husband, in order to continue to reproduce for her husband or parents and survive assets.
The succession marriage originated during the period of extramarital marriage, when it was believed that a woman who married into her own clan belonged not only to her husband's family but also to the clan where her husband's family belonged. If a husband dies, his wife will lose his financial resources and labor force when he marries elsewhere, and the acceptance of the marriage can bind him to his own clan.
"Reproducing for the clan and preserving the clan's property" is the core of the succession marriage. Israel, India, Persia, the Middle East, including China, in fact, not only in Asia, but also in the world, the adoption of succession marriage has existed for a long time, that is, today, in many regions, the acceptance of inheritance marriage is still popular.
The more well-known case of succession marriage in history should be that Wang Zhaojun married the Xiongnu Huhan evil Shan Yu, and after Hu Han's death, she had to pass on to Shan Yu's son as his wife according to the Xiongnu marriage custom.
In the general sense, if the brother dies, the younger brother marries the sister-in-law; or the father dies and the son marries the stepmother; if there is no suitable one in the immediate line, it is married to a collateral relative. In the area of Israel, if a relative marries a widow, the first child is still given to the deceased husband's family tree, and the future generations are given to the new husband. But in other areas, as long as the widow still marries a member of the clan, it is to ensure that the family property does not flow out.
However, there have also been some changes in the long-term development of the succession marriage, such as the husband is alive, but for some reasons can not have children, such as illness or disability, in order to continue the husband's lineage genealogy, the wife can be from the relatives, if there are no suitable conditions among the relatives, the wife can also have children from foreign tribes, the children are classified as the husband's descendants, and the incense of the husband's lineage is preserved.
This is the case with the general degree.
In modern times, we may think that The General Degree is the "Green Hat King" and that the acceptance of the marriage is a strange custom that violates ethics and morality, but in the era, whether it is the General Degree or the wife of the General Degree, in order to continue the royal heirs, what they do is morally valid. And the acceptance of inheritance marriage has also played a certain positive role in a specific social environment.
In the TV series, Pando is happy with Gemini
Why does Pandu allow wives to find outsiders instead of their own brothers. As we mentioned above, Panda has a half-brother who holds the country.
Zhiguo was the eldest grandson of the Blessed King, who was supposed to inherit the throne, but because of the blindness of zhiguo, the younger grandson Pandu inherited the throne. The ruler itself is weak and doting on children, and his descendants are fierce and cruel, and have always been eyeing the throne. If you let your wife have children from the country, it is not to give up your throne to someone, instead of this, it is better to let the wife find someone else, fortunately, the wife has indeed found a high-quality "old king", and gave birth to 5 good sons who are famous in ancient times and brave and good at war.
The Mahabharata is divided into eighteen chapters, which deal with the feud between the descendants of the kingdom and the descendants of Prajnaparamita for the throne.
The Mahabharata contains miniatures of the world that the indians put into it, from genealogies to preaching, to countless aphorisms and proverbs, to Hindu religious philosophies that indians revere as holy texts.
Many modern Indian societies, which we cannot understand, can find their roots and answers in this book.
To learn about Indian culture, the Mahabharata is a must-see.
In the days to come, I will continue to share with you the story of The Mahabharata, and of course, some of its practical applications, I hope you will continue to pay attention to and continue to support.
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