Why did China allow polygamy in ancient times?

Why was polygamy harmful in ancient China? On this issue, Mr. Liang Qichao once said, "harmful to health, harmful to seed spread, harmful to education, harmful to learning and harmful to the national economy." It can be seen that polygamy, which was highly respected in China's ancient feudal dynasty society, actually did no good to people themselves, and even did a lot of harm. So, what's the harm of this polygamy?

Today, I want to talk to you about how polygamy hindered the development of ancient China.

First of all, our common saying of polygamy is very inaccurate. It should be monogamy and polygamy. The ancients could marry many concubines and only have one wife from beginning to end. If it is too much, it is illegal for any generation. There is a nice name called "Li".

When the social form has just changed from feminist to patriarchal, women have become the object of men's showing off their achievements to some extent. Men try every means, whether it is war or conspiracy, to improve their social status, so that they can have the right to choose a partner.

This is an innate instinct of us as animals, and now many close relatives of human beings, such as gorillas and monkeys, still follow this primitive rule.

In the feudal dynasty, privileged classes, such as royalty and nobility, wealthy businessmen and landlords, etc. After they have enough material, they inevitably need nature. They are thinking about eugenics.

I will make use of my privilege to find as many beautiful and smart young girls as possible to carry on the family line for myself, hoping to have more children and be smart.

So there is polygamy, and those in power have found a legitimate reason for themselves, which is allowed by law!

Originally, God gave almost every man a woman, neither more nor less, but the appearance of polygamy made this natural law artificially destroyed.

People with power and wealth occupy a large number of high-quality female resources. The emperor always has three thousand concubines, and ordinary landlords also have two or three concubines.

This is equivalent to an emperor making thousands more bachelors in the country. With the hierarchical distribution of power, there are often few women at the bottom.

It's good to get a wife. There is no right to choose. Most of the remaining women are not optimistic in appearance or IQ. Of course, many people are even worse. They have no partner to get married and die alone!

On the other hand, due to the limited energy of men, there will be a class above the golden tower of power, which will waste many high-quality women and fail to fulfill their greatest responsibility in ancient times to have children.

This situation, the more you go to the spire, the more serious it is.

The most typical example is the royal family, which called thousands of high-quality women to attack again and again, but it is difficult for emperors in history to have more than 100 children, which is a great waste to some extent.

However, due to the particularity of China's national conditions, the feudal society centered on patriarchy and its Confucianism for thousands of years, China has been practicing this kind of husband-wife system. Over time, from the perspective of genetics, it is actually unfavorable to the genetic development of the whole nation!