Marriage refers to the combination of men and women, in the history of Mongolia has a long-standing rush marriage, the birth of Genghis Khan is related to this, Genghis Khan's mother Mrs. Ke Erlun was born by his father who should also be snatched to marry, Mongolia's marriage robbery has a long history, then we will talk about the Mongolian marriage robbery customs.
Personally, I think that there are two types of marriage snatching among the Mongols
The type of marriage snatching
1． Directly robbing other people's wives, 12th century Mongolia is still in a clan society, the Mongols robbed marriage for the purpose of marrying wives, that is, men robbed women of the wife robbery type of marriage robbery, according to records, Genghis Khan's father should also quickly see the wife of the brother of the leader of the beggars when walking in the snow, Ke Erlun looks beautiful and charming, graceful, think that she will have a noble son, so he plotted with several brothers, robbed Ke Erlun, Ke Erlun bid farewell to his husband Chi liedu, tearfully from the fast, also quickly should be the leader of the Mongolian beggar tribe, After the marriage, he also gave birth to three sons and a daughter, and the eldest son was the famous Genghis Khan Temujin.
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2. War-type marriage robbery War-type marriage snatching, is a barbaric form of forced marriage that captured women by war means during the marriage period of ancient clans and tribes, because the wife of the brother of the contemptuous beggar, Ke Erlun, was snatched by Temujin's father, in order to avenge this, the contemptuous beggar robbed Temujin's wife Temujin to avenge this, at that time Temujin's true strength was still very weak, and he could only unite with his righteous brother Zamuhe and his own righteous father Wang Khan to regain his beloved wife BoErti, when her wife was pregnant, and gave birth to a child called Shuchi, This is also the pain of Temujin's life, he is not strong enough to love his wife was robbed and humiliated, and he also gave birth to a child, he has been blaming himself and blaming himself all his life. Temujin, Wang Khan, and Zamu combined forces of thirty thousand men defeated The Beggars of Contempt avenged the humiliation of taking wives: the men who exceeded the height of the wheel were eliminated, the Beggars of the Rebels were destroyed, and the wives and daughters of their enemies were divided among themselves and their people.
What are the reasons for the occurrence of the marriage robbery custom
The cause of marriage snatching
1. Mongolia did not intermarry within the internal clan very early, the drawbacks of marriage between close relatives have also been discovered, and there are very few female age holders of the same tribe, in order to get married, it is very difficult to find women in other tribes, and it is very difficult to conclude marriages in Mongolia, and it is very difficult to communicate on horses in the vast steppes, such as Genghis Khan also spent a long time to unify the inside and outside of the Mongolian plateau, Genghis Khan in order to regain his beloved wife BoErti, contacted the king Khan of the Krebu and the leader of his own Anda Zada Tadabu, Zamuhe, It took a full nine months to gather another 30,000 men and horses to form a coalition army, which shows that there was very little communication among the Mongol tribes, and even the gathering of their own tribes took a lot of time, not to mention the action of individuals who concluded marriages, so it became a custom to rob marriages. In the "Secret History of Mongolia", it is recorded that in order to get married, Temujin's ten ancestors, Bo Duan Cha'er, together with his brother, robbed a beautiful pregnant woman, and the pregnant woman gave birth to a son for Bo Duan Cha'er. Because his wife was a captive, he was named Baali, and Boduan Cha'er not only made the captured pregnant woman his wife, but further ruled over the tribe where the pregnant woman was located.
2. At that time, Mongolia was a patriarchal clan society, the male leader of the tribe held the power of life and death, at that time the status of women was lower than that of men, and once the tribe to which they belonged was defeated, women would become the spoils of war and be distributed to the victors. For example, after Temujin defeated the Tatars, Chirawen sent the daughter of the tribal leader to Temujin's account, Temujin gladly accepted such a beautiful woman, and also quickly gave her sister to Temujin in order to make her sister rich, and she also had a husband, but Temujin killed her husband, and she also took temujin, because she was very smart and beautiful, temujin was favored by Temujin, and was the second of the four major ears in the harem.
There is also the concubine gu'er beisu, the concubine of the leader of the Naiman tribe, Sun Khan, who was originally his father's concubine, and when the old Khan King was seriously ill, he was secretly married to him, a bit like his mother Wu Zetian and Li Zhi, she was very disgusted with the greasy smell of the Mongols, and after being captured by Temujin, she also became Temujin's concubine, Temujin let him smell the greasy smell of the Mongols every day, and for example, in the "Legend of the Archery Hero", Guo Jing's wife Anda Tuolei's wife Temujin's father and brother Zahe dare not be the daughter, Klie · Because of her father's defeat, several sisters were divided between Temujin and his son Shuchi, and she was assigned to Tore, becoming Tuolei's wife, giving birth to the Great Khan Möngke, the ancestor of Kublai Khan, and hulegu, the founder of the Ilkhanate, and the women of the defeated tribes could only survive if they submitted.
3. The Mongolian steppe is also in a period of social transformation, with the change of productivity and production relations, patriarchy began to rise, the early matriarchal society of men bowed to the women of the tribe, with the change of production relations, women began to bow to the men of the tribe, when the social status of men in the tribe improved, which also produced the rule of women and marriage and children, but there are too few women in the same tribe, and many have kinship, plus the tribal communication on the steppe is too far away, thus gradually forming the way of marriage robbery, Marriage is a quick one, eliminating many steps. With the expansion of Mongolia everywhere, the population increased, the earliest capital is the palace of the Great Khan, with the second Great Khan of Mongolia, the capital of Hala and Lin, Mongolia gradually began to settle, the capital at that time can be called the center of East Asia, the population is large, the culture of various places is gradually integrated into the Mongolian ethnic group, the exchange between men and women increases, the tribes gather, thus the marriage is gradually withdrawn from the historical stage, and the Sinicized Mongols also follow the words of their parents.
Marriage snatching is a feature of Mongolia is also a feature of the tribal society at that time, but also the characteristics of the nomadic people at that time, in the early years of the Xiongnu also had similar inheritance marriage, the father died, the son will be the father in addition to his own mother to the harem, the brother died and the brother married the sister-in-law, are the measures taken for population reproduction at that time, the Taizu Tuoba Jue of the Northern Wei Dynasty looked at his own aunt so he killed his uncle and married his own aunt as his concubine, which is similar to Greek mythology. Zeus married several of his own sisters, Zeus's brother Hades accepted Zeus's daughter as the queen of the underworld, Tang Taizong Li Shimin eliminated his brother Li Yuanji and included his younger sister Li Yuanji's concubines in the harem, Li Shimin's son Tang Gaozong Li Zhi married his own mother Wu Zetian, can be regarded as a humble legacy, tribal social legacy.