What was the status of women in marriage in ancient times?

If it is polygamous, then the woman is like a maid in marriage.

In ancient times, there were many men who liked polygamy because, they always felt that the more temperament they had in their home, the more capable they were, the richer they were, unlike now, even if you are rich, you can only marry one wife, and if you marry one more, you will commit the crime of bigamy.

But in ancient times, there were also men who were very upright, and he liked a woman all his life, like this case, a man has only one woman in the family, then this woman is respected at home like a queen. No matter which person in the family or relatives are around, they will have special respect for this woman, because she is the only mistress in the family.

But polygamous families are not like this, in a family, a man takes a variety of women, in this kind of family, women do not have a little status, even if you are the eldest lady, although you have some status when speaking, but you are at home, in the eyes of your husband's relatives or subordinates, it is just a big lady will not get anything, a person from the bottom of his heart, show respect for yourself will be the same as a maid.

In a family like a man marrying a woman, the first woman, as the eldest lady, has only one in the family, no need to be anxious when buying things and spending money, and when she is bored at home, she can't be anxious about eating, but he will only be like a maid, used to serve her husband and be happy with her husband, because if she doesn't make her husband happy, he will worry that her husband will be good to other women.

And this situation is still powerless, every woman in his family is her husband, Ming Media is marrying back, not like a mistress, can be eradicated one by one, so I don't like the ancient polygamy, especially disrespectful to women, I still like that we now only marry one wife for a man, at least in the family, the status of men and women is equal.

The status of women in the family began to improve during the Qing Dynasty, and the most important of these reforms was the Jiaqing Statute, which stipulated that women could independently own property, participate in family decisions, and inherit family property.

It is generally believed that ancient China was a male society in which men had absolute dominance, and the social status of women was very low. However, it is not entirely accurate to simply assume that the status of women is low. Because filial piety is a core content of ancient society, and the focus of filial piety is filial piety.

Honoring one's parents, the status of the mother is definitely higher than the status of the father. From this point of view, the status of women is very high.

In ancient China, the important bond of family relations was blood relations. The brotherhood of brothers is ** related to the blood of compatriots, so the brotherhood is "kissing or not, breaking bones and tendons". Although Liu Bei said that "wives are like clothes, brothers are like siblings", which is widely criticized by the world, but in traditional culture, brothers are siblings, which will not be wrong, and the close relationship between brothers is stronger than that between husband and wife, which is indeed an undeniable fact.

Because the wife is not related by blood, her family status is not high in traditional culture. The real establishment of the wife's position in the family is not until the wife gives birth to a child and becomes a mother, and then the blood relationship is established.

Therefore, we call our wives wives, that is, when she is old, she will be a mother-in-law. And once the wife becomes a mother, because for the children, they are born from the mother's womb, so they have more direct and specific blood feelings, so China's filial piety culture is seriously biased towards the maternal line.