China ancient bad habits

Foot-binding is an act that destroys the normal development of limbs. A woman who binds her feet should bind her feet from an early age and slowly bend the bones of her feet to deform them.

A pair of small feet after foot binding not only have various inconveniences in real life, but also women have to bear great disability and pain in the whole process of foot binding. This kind of thing, which has no practical effect and makes the victims extremely painful, has become a popular and social custom for nearly a thousand years.

2, wives and concubines in groups

The ancient people married three wives and four concubines, the main purpose of which was to carry on the family line. The meaning of three wives and four concubines should mean polygamy. The ancient emperor also had seventy-two concubines in three palaces and six courtyards. The so-called three wives and four concubines in ancient times mainly refers to a marriage system in feudal period. This is the persecution of women.

If a man is widowed, it is a mistress for him to remarry, and it is a bad habit for a woman to remarry. Men are superior to women, and women can only be attached to men, which is the result of the social system, and this result has intensified the hierarchical differentiation between men and women, so there are groups of men's wives and concubines, while women can only be loyal to each other.

3, refers to the abdomen for marriage

Old marriage customs. It is popular in vast areas of the country. That is, before the child is born, both parents agree to get married. Others are afraid that men and women will not recognize each other when they grow up, or that one party will not keep its word, so they cut the skirt into two pieces and hold one piece as a voucher, which is called "finger-cutting" or "finger-cutting". Rulers sometimes forbid it, but it has no practical effect.

During the Northern and Southern Dynasties, the phenomenon of finger-belly marriage spread to the people, which made this phenomenon very popular.

In the Yuan Dynasty, the law began to stop this bad habit. "History of the Yuan Dynasty Criminal Law Records" records: "Men and women who discuss marriage and decide their fingertips are forbidden."

Finger-pointing marriage is also prohibited by Ming and Qing laws. After liberation, the bad habit of finger-to-belly marriage was truly fundamentally reversed.

4. superstition

When people face a huge unknown space, they often put forward their own explanations. The ancients were in awe of Lei Xin, so they put forward their own explanation of "Raytheon, Heaven" and worshipped it. Later people called it superstition.

Superstition means that people blindly believe or worship things. Superstition in a narrow sense, according to the established habits after liberation in China, refers to people's thoughts and behaviors of believing in astrology, divination, geomantic omen, fate and ghosts and gods.

5. A woman's lack of talent is virtue.

According to the textual research of Professor Liu Yongcong, a Hong Kong scholar, the source of the famous saying "A woman without talent is virtue" should be in the works of the Ming Dynasty.

It is mainly believed that it is the words of Chen Jiru (Mei Gong) in the Ming Dynasty: "Women are literate, but those who can understand the righteousness are Gude, but they are rare; Others like to read songbooks and novels, fan the flames, and even make a scandal-free thing. Instead, it is better to be illiterate and keep silent.

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