What do you think of polygamy in ancient times?

Updated on tourism 2024-06-03
18 answers
  1. Anonymous users2024-02-11

    In ancient times, there was no modern medical treatment for childbirth, and women had a low pregnancy rate, a high rate of dystocia, and many children died. In this case, if there is only monogamy, the fertility of the family may be 0. For example, Lin Daiyu's family and Zhen Yinglian's family in Dream of Red Mansions, although they are both rich, they are still polygamous, and they have not given birth to men.

    If I only have one wife, I am afraid that I will not even have a daughter. Because of this reason, the rich and noble families will instinctively marry more wives from the perspective of reproducing the next generation.

  2. Anonymous users2024-02-10

    To be precise, monogamy and polygonal concubines, in feudal society, the hierarchy of people is more distinct, slavery is a slave owner is the person with human rights, and slaves are regarded as goods that can be bought and sold for exchange, so the status of wives and concubines is very different, and concubines can buy and sell private goods at will.

  3. Anonymous users2024-02-09

    In ancient times, women had no opportunity to study, had little knowledge, and became an accessory in a patriarchal society, so the phenomenon of polygamy existed.

  4. Anonymous users2024-02-08

    First of all, the ancients were influenced by the system and thoughts, and thought that polygamy was reasonable, and the state also allowed it, plus it was not easy to feed a person in ancient times, the average age of death was very low, and there were frequent wars, and more people died. If you have the ability, you can raise a few more people, if you can't bear it, it's not monogamous, the emperor has so many wives, who doesn't envy it.

  5. Anonymous users2024-02-07

    The ancients married concubines and gave them a place to settle down, but now most of them are abandoned for a while. It doesn't matter what is right or wrong, but according to people's hearts, the more progressive the society is, the more cruel it is, and the survival of the fittest will be more obvious ......

  6. Anonymous users2024-02-06

    From the point of view of the laws of nature, it is reasonable, but from the point of view of sociology, it does not conform to the laws of fairness in modern society.

  7. Anonymous users2024-02-05

    In ancient times, there were many wars, and the rich had many children. Listen to others, before liberation. A teaching teacher picked up a wife, two daughters and a baby, and the baby drowned in her teens.

    Love a girl again to get married. The male mother disagreed. Let the teacher ensure that he is good to his ex-wife before he is allowed to enter the house.

    Frequent quarrels. My grandfather only gave birth to one daughter. In order to give birth to a baby and pick up two women, people are honest.

    Gave birth to a girl and a baby. My two mothers-in-law died long before I was born. Polygamy is not good.

    Some people take care of the junior, and others can't care about it.

  8. Anonymous users2024-02-04

    The wife is the head of the family and manages the entire family, as the so-called male leader outside the female protagonist, which refers to the female hostess's management of family affairs, including the management of concubines.

  9. Anonymous users2024-02-03

    Polygamy in ancient times was too unfair to women, so why can't women?

  10. Anonymous users2024-02-02

    According to the information, it can be known that there was no polyandry in ancient times, because the status of women was very low in ancient times, for men women are just tools for reproduction, ancient times was an era of male superiority and inferiority of women, thinking that women are doing nothing, if there is polyandry, I think it may be the era of matrilineal clans.

  11. Anonymous users2024-02-01

    There is no polygamy system in any dynasty, but there are some merchants who have been walking all the year round, and they will marry a wife in their family and another wife in the place where they do business, which is called a flat wife, but the status of a flat wife in law is different from that of the original wife. In ancient times, it was a system of monogamy and polygonal concubines.

  12. Anonymous users2024-01-31

    In ancient times, polyandry was practiced, but polygamy was the mainstay. In ancient China, the popular "Ah Zhu marriage" among the rice farming peoples was essentially "polyandry". The so-called "Ah Zhu marriage" is a form of walking marriage with the characteristics of couple marriage, which began in the primitive matrilineal clan society.

  13. Anonymous users2024-01-30

    There should be none, after the Han Dynasty, it was basically a system of multiple wives and concubines, and the system of three wives and four concubines was mostly seen in the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period and earlier in ancient times.

  14. Anonymous users2024-01-29

    In ancient times, there was no polyandry, and the status of women at that time was very low, and they did not even have freedom, let alone many men.

  15. Anonymous users2024-01-28

    In ancient times, there was no polyandry system, and most of the ancient systems were monogamous and polygamous, after all, it was a male society.

  16. Anonymous users2024-01-27

    In ancient times, there was no polyandry, because in ancient times, men were basically inferior to women, and the status of women was very low.

  17. Anonymous users2024-01-26

    In ancient China, there seems to be no record of which dynasty was polyandry, and the status of women in ancient times was not very high.

  18. Anonymous users2024-01-25

    Yes. That's a lot. Refer to royal noble women.

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