Only by obeying nature can we overcome nature. - Darwin
Marriage between close relatives is a very common thing in Chinese history.
However, with the development of the times and the progress of science, many evidences can show that the marriage of close relatives will cause great damage to future generations.
By now, the marriage of close relatives is a thing that is explicitly prohibited by law.
But in addition to the mainland, there are still many countries in the world that still recognize the marriage of close relatives, such as Dubai and Japan.
Curiously, both countries, while marriages of close relatives prevail, have very different consequences.
Seven of The brothers of Emperor Meiji of Japan did not live to adulthood, and his twelve children died eleven prematurely, while the Royal Family of Dubai, although they were popular for marriage in order to ensure the purity of blood, their children were not only healthy and healthy, but also smart and beautiful, why?
1. The harm of marriage between close relatives
When it comes to the marriage of close relatives, the history of the mainland can be said to have a lot of say.
In ancient legends, Fuxi and Nüwa were a pair of brothers and sisters, and in the real world, the example of close relatives marrying can be traced back to the time of matriarchal society.
Later, in order to distinguish between races, people invented surnames, and since the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, there has been a rule of non-marriage with the same surname.
However, this kind of "same surname" can not completely prevent people with blood relations from getting married, and many cousins will still choose to become relatives, such as Jia Baoyu and Xue Baochao in the novel, as well as the actual Han Wudi and Ajiao, such a combination abounds in ancient times, and no one will feel anything strange at all.
Of course, if it is really not "strange", the marriage of close relatives cannot be explicitly prohibited by mainland law.
When the time came to modern times, medicine and science were more developed, people finally had a better understanding of the harm of marriage between close relatives.
It turns out that because of the genetic similarity between close relatives, the recessive genetic diseases they carry are more likely to be passed on to the next generation, so children born of close relatives are likely to be born with some kind of defect, which may make them mentally impaired, and may make them not grow up at all.
If you insist on marrying close relatives, you are not only irresponsible for your children, but also irresponsible for your family and society.
So, in 1980, the law forbade the marriage of close relatives.
Under the dual emphasis of law and science, in Ancient China, where marriages of close relatives were prevalent, there is no longer any marriage between close relatives.
Of course, just because there are no continents does not mean that there are none in the world.
Looking around, there are still many countries in the world that advocate the marriage of close relatives and see it as a way to maintain the noble bloodline.
For example, Emperor Meiji of Japan, who was the product of the marriage of close relatives, was able to grow up safely, and can only say that he was lucky enough, and seven of the children who were in the same line with him did not live to adulthood.
As the Japanese Imperial Family, Emperor Meiji still adhered to the set of inheritance of the bloodline and chose to marry close relatives, so only one of his twelve children was left, and the remaining eleven all died prematurely.
2. Children of the Royal Family of Dubai
The same as the Japanese royal practice is also the Dubai royal family, but it is strange that although the Dubai royal family is also married by close relatives, their children seem to be unaffected by genetic inheritance, and each of them is smart and beautiful. Why?
Dubai uses Arab law where every man is able to marry four women. So the Dubai chief married two wives, one of whom was his cousin.
He had twelve children with this cousin, each of whom was cute and beautiful, and the boys were also very intelligent, and one of them, Hamantan, was politically gifted and became crown prince at an early age.
The same close relatives married, the children of the Dubai royal family are very different from the Japanese royal family. One of the most crucial reasons for this is still the word "near".
Blood relations within three generations can be called close relatives, and as long as there are more than three generations of blood relations, they can be married without worrying about genetics.
A big part of the reason why the children of the Dubai royal family are healthy and smart is that they deliberately control the "near".
They only choose close relatives above the second level to marry, ensuring that the probability of genetic diseases in their offspring is minimized on the basis of ensuring the bloodline.
Of course, this alone does not guarantee that future generations will be "fine" with each other.
Therefore, the Dubai royal family has also made another effort, that is, to focus on the mother of the child, focusing on the genetic screening of the marriage partner.
For the Dubai royal family, under the premise of ensuring the purity of the blood, what kind of mother to find for the future crown prince is a crucial question.
So they will be strictly selected among the "candidates" of their spouses, undergoing a series of physical examinations and genetic screenings to ensure that the best of them is found to give birth to Dubai.
Before the spouse is determined, the "candidates" often undergo rigorous screening and finally select the genetically excellent person to give birth to Dubai.
The original excellent genes coupled with the deliberately controlled probability of genetic diseases, the Dubai royal family can of course be able to achieve even if close relatives marry, can greatly reduce the risk of offspring disease.
Third, there is a hidden truth
In order to ensure the purity of the bloodline, the Dubai royal family still insists on marrying close relatives when it knows that there is a risk.
In order to reduce the harm caused by the marriage of close relatives to the offspring, they have thought of a series of measures to reduce the risk, and the final result is those beautiful and intelligent children.
Some people will ask, is the genetic disease probability of close relatives marriage really able to be artificially controlled? Has the Dubai royal family never had a child affected by a genetic disease?
This answer, I am afraid, only the Royal Family of Dubai knows.
After all, the competition of the royal family is cruel, and under their deliberate instructions, even if there are deformed or premature children, they will not be exposed by the media.
In the end, only the excellent sons and daughters and the hidden truths of Dubai are presented to the world.
In any case, the harm of marriage between close relatives is seen by everyone.
If you insist on marrying close relatives, you are likely to wait for the death of the vast majority of children, just like the Japanese imperial family.
Even though the Dubai royal family is already mitigating the consequences of the marriage of close relatives as much as possible, science cannot be violated, as long as the marriage of close relatives is insisted, there will always be a day of impact.