In China's ancient feudal society, it was mainly in a social state of male superiority and female inferiority, and men could have three wives and four concubines. This is not the end, in ancient times, in addition to three wives and four concubines, there was also such a special group of housemaids. So, what did the ancient housewives do, and how did they serve their masters? Today, let's explore the little-known secrets.
Through the room
In ancient times, the maids were handmaidens who married into the man's family along with the hostess, but they were greatly different from the dowry bridesmaids. Although the ancient dowry maids also married to the man's family with the hostess, they were still just a maid, and the house maid was not only a maid, but more accurately, they were also the woman of the male host.
In ancient times, the housewives not only had to take care of the master, but their bedroom was connected to the master's bedroom, so that they could serve the master at night. They also had to be close to the hosts when they were having sex, and at the beckoning of the masters, they also had to do intercourse together.
In "Dream of the Red Chamber", Ping'er is Wang Xifeng's position as a housekeeper, that is, Wang Xifeng's helper, on the one hand, to help Wang Xifeng encircle the heart of the hostess and prevent the hostess from getting into trouble outside; on the other hand, to help the hostess Wang Xifeng handle household affairs and take charge of the power in the housekeeper.
Ancient room maids belong to the highest status among the maids, they are the most favored by the master, they are also the women of the male host to a certain extent, but they are famous and have no points, different from concubines, the status is lower than the concubines, but as long as they can get the approval of the master, as long as they have done the formalities and have a name, they can become concubines, and they are also half of the hostesses, which can be said to fly up the branches and become phoenixes. Therefore, in order to change their identities, the ancient maids competed to be the housemaids and have a future.
Of course, not all the housemaids are so lucky, they are more of a tool for the male host to vent their desires and vent the gas basket. For example, in "Dream of the Red Chamber", Jia Lian was found to be raising a woman outside, but Jia Lian pretended to be crazy, took up a sword and wanted to kill Fengjie, and was later dissuaded by Jia Mu, and as a result, he was angry and threw up Ping'er.
Try marriage
In ancient times, there were not only tongfang yatou among the commoners, but also in the imperial family of the Qing Dynasty, but they had a new name called "trial marriage style". The imperial family of the Qing Dynasty, in order to avoid their princesses repeating the Ming Dynasty's princesses being deceived by eunuchs and others, and finally married a sick or physically defective pony, they absorbed the folk system of intercourse and gave birth to the trial marriage system.
According to the records, after the emperor and the empress dowager selected a donkey for Gege, they would select an experienced and clever palace girl, and before Gege got married, as a trial marriage, he would first come to the donkey's home and conduct a marriage examination equivalent to our today' marriage examination, testing the temperament, character and physical condition of the donkey.
The next day, the trial marriage will return to the palace with the marriage examination report to report on the physical condition of the horse, whether there are physical defects and temperament, and whether it is worthy of the qualifications. If everything is qualified, the real gege will successfully marry the steed. And the trial marriage grid will also marry with the grid to the horse family and continue to serve the grid.
epilogue
In short, the housemaids are the deformed products of the social system of male superiority and female inferiority in the ancient feudal society, if they can meet a good master, they can fly up the branches and become a phoenix, become the hostess, and thus get rid of the identity of slaves, but if they meet a bad master, they are the tools and outpouring baskets of men's desires, and they suffer all kinds of torture, which is unbearable.