In the Shang Dynasty Reform Law, why is there a provision prohibiting fathers, sons and brothers fro

Nowadays, men and women generally live separately from their parents after marriage, which has become the norm, which is called starting a family. This was not the case in the pre-Qin era, where four generations were in the same house, and it was the norm for several generations to not be separated. The ancients lived together in clans, and today people live separately, which is the progress of the times and the inevitable result of economic development.

Parents and children are harmonious and fraternal, and children are brothers and sisters, which is extremely undesirable in Shang Ying's viewTherefore, in order to break this most solid social force, it is necessary to eliminate the relationship between the parents, children, and brothers of the common people by law, so that they can isolate each other.

In this way, the most solid social foundation in the entire feudal society, the united family, completely collapsed. Subsequently, the ruler only needs to exert a little external force, and it is easy to rule these isolated individuals, and there will be no group of people to resist, even if they want to resist, it is only one person, and the strength is weak, and it will naturally not become a climate.

As a result, under the policy of Shang Ying, the number of diners raised by the landlords was restricted. However, Shang Ying stipulated that if the family was not separated, the "household tax" would be doubled. Although this is conducive to the development of the small-scale peasant economy, in fact, it will certainly increase the burden on the peasants.

Why? Due to the pressure of the policy, the large families of the Qin State will consider splitting the family, and those poor and small families can only go to the rich family as a "son-in-law" because they can't afford the "household tax". Although the Shang Dynasty changed the law, the strong order was in the law and the weak order was in Germany, but the effect was indeed very obvious, and the Qin State rose rapidly after the Shang Dynasty changed the law and became stronger, so that the countries could look at it.

For if they live together, they show that they are very disrespectful to people now.

Because it's a very rotten practice with a very aftertaste, it has changed.

I think that's one of the drawbacks of his change, and it's not good.

Because at that time, I felt that when I grew up, I would have to divide the family business, and it was not good to live together.

I think it was because they felt that the father was superior to the son!

Because the society at that time was very feudal, I felt that it was not good for a family to live together.

There may be a lot of people, something will happen, and if father and son live together at the same time, it will be dangerous in case there is a rebellion.

Now it seems that although the changes implemented by Shang Ying at that time also had very strict parts, it has to be admitted that Shang Ying, who was born in a Legalist, had a very complete set of governing concepts on how to embark on the road of fundamental strength of the Qin State, which was formed after Shang Ying had a very full understanding of the Qin State. For example, rewarding military merits and prohibiting private fights greatly improved the Qin people's enthusiasm for combat, abolishing the division of feuds, dividing the Qin State into 31 counties, and setting up county orders and presiding over county administration, the purpose of which was to weaken the power of the traditional old scholars and strengthen the rule of the monarch.

This is because he wants to restrain the two of them in this way, and he also wants to consolidate the Shang Ying Transformation Law in this way.

Because it increases the country's tax revenue, it increases the number of households, and it also has a role in population growth.

It is because father-son and brother cohabitation will have a lot of accounts that cannot be settled, and it will also do more harm than good.

This is because it raises the country's tax revenues, increases the number of households without cohabitation, and also contributes to population growth.

This was done in order to increase the labor force of the Qin State and increase the economy of the Qin State.

The Shang Dynasty of the Qin State.

The prohibition of fathers and sons from living in the same house after the age of 17 is a supplement to the "family of different children" in the first reform of the law, and it is also a norm for social customs.

The so-called heterogeneous family is the fifth decree issued when Shang Ying changed the law: if the people have more than two men and are not different, they will be given double the endowment. This decree means:

If two or more adult males in a common person's household have not yet lived separately, the tax is doubled. This is Shang Jun.

After traveling all over the land of Sanqin, he prescribed a fierce medicine to the society and family of the Qin State at that time. Subsequently, this decree was strengthened in the second reform, strictly prohibiting fathers, sons, and brothers from living together, and limiting the size of the family to five people (excluding underage children), which is the family structure that has been widely respected since the Qin and Han dynasties.

The family of different sons" and "are both issued by the envoys of the remaining sons", are forced to the people to separate their households, so the father and son live in different places, and the nuclear family has become the mainstream of society.

If there are not many boys in the family who do not have much money, they cannot all build houses for their daughters-in-law, and some second-rate children will be produced or directly become sons-in-law.

The opposite is true.

Prohibiting the establishment of a separate household registration and the division of property, commonly known as the separation of the family, is an important measure taken by the rulers of China's feudal society to regulate family property, maintain the family system, and realize the state's control over the family.

Before the Tang Dynasty, there were no similar provisions in the legislation, and the corresponding expressions were made by the Qin Dynasty"Heterozogen", that is, the Qin Dynasty passed"Shang martingale change"Separation of paternity is enforced throughout the country, forcing adult sons of families to separate from their fathers (forced separation).

Until Cao Wei. period, officially abolished from the law"Heterozogen"。

However, the provision of directly prohibiting foreign wealth from the level of national legislation was first established in the Tang Dynasty. Tang Gaozong.

During the Yonghui period, the "Tang Law" was officially promulgated, which strictly prohibited relatives in other families with foreign wealth, and severely punished those who violated the law.

There are three purposes for prohibiting fathers, sons and brothers from living in the same house: its.

1. Compulsory division of accounts and increase of tax accounts; That.

2. Break the clan power and let the villages be managed by state officials, not by the patriarchs of each clan; That.

3. Changing customs, separating fathers and sons, and separating brothers from their businesses are the folk customs of the six civilized Shandong countries. Prohibiting fathers, sons and brothers from living in the same house is a triple win, which can be said to benefit the country and the people, so it is more convenient to implement.

During the Warring States Period, the state was taxed on the basis of household registration, and no matter how many people you have in a household, it was taxed according to one household. Fathers and sons living in the same house means that there is no separation, there is only one household registration, and the state can only collect taxes on one household. If fathers, sons and brothers are forced to separate, one household becomes many, and the state can receive more taxes.

If a country does not collect taxes, or does not collect enough taxes to spend, then the country will inevitably decay and die. In the last years of the Ming Dynasty, the financial deficit was serious, and the army could not make a sound, which eventually led to the army mutiny and the destruction of the country.

Clan forces are often combined with underworld forces, and a large clan is small enough to run rampant in the countryside and large enough to fight against the state. The existence of clan forces is a serious challenge to the grassroots under the management of the state, especially some large families, who are not separated for several generations, and the big owners of the family can run rampant in the countryside and fight against the state. Shang Jun knows human nature very well, so he forcibly separates the family, and after everyone becomes a small family, even if they are as close as father and son, and friends are like brothers, they will not be able to unite because of different interests.

To this day, the clan power in some remote villages is still strong, and the village tyrants often use the power of their families to do illegal things.

Fathers and sons living in the same house have health problems and ethical problems, and only by demolishing the family into a small family can these two problems be solved. There are dozens of people in the same house in the fourth generation, if the family is big, one person and one room are fine, if the family is poor, then there are many problems. In order to solve the health problem and the ethical problem, the Shang monarch forced Qin Min to divide the family, and there were only three or four members in the family, so the health problem was relatively easy to solve, and the ethical problem was easy to solve.

The result of the forced division of the Shang monarch was that the countryside of the Qin State was completely renewed, and the level of civilization was similar to that of the Lu State and the Wei State.

Of course, this made sense, because at that time it was practiced that each household paid taxes, so living separately could overcharge taxes; The second is to divide the clan forces! This is also the origin of many woes.

The method of taxation is calculated according to the way of the household, and the parents and sons, fathers and sons, and brothers live in the same house, which can not only increase the tax, but also make the implementation of their own law changes smoother.

Because after letting them live separately, they can increase the country's taxes, can increase the country's income, and also facilitate the country's management, which is conducive to social development.