Chapter 999: Rites
About 40 years ago, there was a foreign surname Wang family in Lujia Village, and there was a girl in the family who was Peugeot since childhood, named Wang Fuzhi, who was smart and clever, could sing mountain songs, embroidered well in needlework, and was better at embroidering good-looking purses and sweat towels.
There are hundreds of women in the family, and most of the school-age young people in the Wu family in the village are bent on getting the purse sweat towel she embroidered. One of the most active people is none other than our Master Lu Hanchen.
Lu Hanchen was very young at that time, he was a graceful and handsome son, and he was a showman, compared with his peers, there was no doubt that the conditions were the most superior in all aspects.
But Lu Hanchen is the most unqualified one, because he has already married a wife, if the wife commits the seven rules, she can divorce her wife, but it is a woman who respects her in-laws and respects her husband, and she has no time to pick.
If you want to ask Wang Fuzhi to be a concubine, no matter whether the Wang family is willing or not, the Lu family rules, unless Mrs. does not give birth to a son and there is no one to inherit the lineage, otherwise she cannot take a concubine, and Mrs. Lu has been married for just two years and has given birth to two sons.
The more he couldn't get it, the more Lu Hanchen coveted the beauty, so he came up with a way, if we can't marry openly, we can secretly pass through the song! When he was young, Master Lu didn't have the kind of chaste martyr in his mind, and even if he did, it was someone else's business.
The handsome and amorous son used all kinds of means to get the simple village flower king Fuzhi into his hands and did the business of stealing chickens and dogs. It's a pity that the good times didn't last long, and Wang Fuzhi grew up and wanted to get married.
Now Lu Hanchen is entangled, she is married to a brother of the same clan, and there are at least a few subordinates in the family, there are many people with mixed eyes and strict family rules, once it is found that she will lose her reputation if she is not sunk by the river, and she will lose the qualification to inherit the patriarch, how dare she continue to cheat? If you marry the ordinary people in the village, most of the farmers are strong, if you catch them. Beating people to death doesn't violate the king's law.
Lu Hanchen, who thought about it, ran to try his best to encourage the young master of a seriously ill small landlord's family in the village to marry Wang Fuzhi and come back to be happy, and buy a matchmaker to take Wang Fuzhi's eight characters to the sick young master's house to match the eight characters, and the only blind man in the village who counted the eight characters came out to prove that these two eight characters are not mutually compatible, but are born as a pair.
Wang Fuzhi's parents are also greedy for money, and the matchmaker cleverly said that as soon as your girl carries the door, the young master's illness will be cured.
So the two families got married, and when the bride was really carried through the door, they didn't rush to it. But he rushed into mourning, and the sick young master died in less than two months.
The two families were unwilling to be deceived, and the matchmaker rolled her eyes and said that the marriage was destined and she was not responsible; The blind fortune teller spread his hands and said that there is always a time when I owe money, but I can't do it, after all, I am a mortal.
Wang Fuzhi also said that I was willing to be a widow, and the matter was finally settled. In this way, the proud Lu Hanchen can continue to cheat without explanation.
Years. Wang Fuzhi is famous in the county as a chaste widow who vows not to marry again, this is just a rumor. Lu Hanchen is also famous in the township as a guardian who advocates widow observance, and it is only said that there have been several rumors about the romance of the two. With the power of the Lu family's house, no one naturally mentioned it.
Now Lu Hanchen is an old lady with children and grandchildren, and Wang Fuzhi is already an old woman who is old and long.
Xu Hao hates the archway of chastity because many women are forced to stay widowed for the rest of their lives. Too cruel. But I have to admit that the archway of chastity can indeed play a role in maintaining etiquette.
Don't underestimate the maintenance of etiquette and religion, the decline and fall of the Han Empire in history. A very important factor in the decline of the Roman Empire was the decline of the social atmosphere, the openness and erosion of the upper classes, and the example of the lower classes, which directly led to the decline of the population, while at the same time the population of a small number of nomads multiplied and grew day by day.
I won't say much about how it is eroded, but there are relevant records. In any case, after the destruction of Eastern Rome by foreign mercenaries, people began to learn from the pain, and Christianity, which advocated conservative ideas, took advantage of the rise and became the religion of the whole of Europe, and the proportion of the religious population also increased explosively from the initial sneaky handful.
Christianity attaches great importance to family ethics, strictly prohibits reluctance, advocates monogamy and multiple children, and gives birth to the famous "monk pose", please refer to Baidu for details.
During the Wei and Jin dynasties after the Han Dynasty, scholars were romantic, and the open social atmosphere was no worse than that of Rome, and as a result, the five chaos was chaotic, and the Song Dynasty gave rise to a more conservative Cheng Zhu Lixue.
The fall of the Eastern Roman Empire led to a great regression of civilization, and historians recognize that it was a dark and ignorant Middle Ages. China, on the other hand, was fortunate to have survived the Han family's clothing due to the dangers of the Yangtze River, and its national strength continued to rank first in the world for several centuries.
After the Renaissance, the social atmosphere in Europe gradually opened up, and at the same time, Queen Victoria of England was in power, and she adhered to conservative Christianity all her life, which made the population of the island soar, and limited by the geographical area of the island country, population is the basis for catalyzing social change and the foundation of a strong country.
Therefore, Xu Hao certainly hates feudal defenders, but he also admits its positive significance, taking the population as an example, in addition to the Qing Dynasty began to plant potatoes on a large scale, at the same time, the feudal etiquette of the Qing Dynasty was stricter than that of the Ming Dynasty, and most people spent less time drinking, that is to say, there are more behaviors that are conducive to having children, and the useless behaviors are greatly reduced, how can the fertility rate not increase significantly?
Nowadays, the society has begun to reflect on the national policy of family planning, and there are many opinions, and there are no comments on right and wrong, but it is recognized that according to the current trend, aging is inevitable, and second, pension insurance is overwhelmed, so the two-child policy is opened.
Single-nation states such as Russia, Japan, and South Korea have already suffered from this, and Japan should not take it lightly. It cannot be denied that China's stability is due to the dominance of the Han nationality, and if the population of the Han nationality is sluggish for a long time, history can be learned.
The demographic structure of the current US imperialism has changed dramatically, the proportion of whites in the ruling country and the stable country is rapidly decreasing, and Europe is stricter in this regard, and it is needless to say that the immigration policy in order to make up for the gap has caused a series of social contradictions.
It can be said that a small population is indeed conducive to improving the quality of life, but in the face of the cruel law of the jungle, population is indeed the biggest foundation for ensuring the sustainable development and stability of our country.
The old man Lu Hanchen is ashamed of Grandma Wang, after so many years, there are very few old people who know the best relationship between them, and he can finally create a lot of moving festival deeds for Grandma Wang.
Xu Hao has actually decided to help, after all, Grandma Wang has indeed been widowed for a lifetime, and it is not easy, and she can win the vanity of a chastity archway in her later years. It's not easy, the current atmosphere of spending all day and drinking is too much, and it is not too much to publicize feudal etiquette.
At this time, Xu Hao was standing at the height of the nation-state, very tall! It is said that the higher the cultural process, the more reactionary it is, and it is not certain which day the Ming Dynasty will rise, and it is not certain what kind of liberation will be raised, the population is less than 100 million, and everyone does not want to have children.
Thinking of his inconsistent approach, Xu Hao sighed repeatedly, it is really difficult to govern a country. Fortunately, it did not cross over to Comrade Zhu Gaochi.
Here, in order to create momentum, the old man Lu wanted to set up a model of widows in Shangyuan County, and also in order to magnify the famous teaching, he mobilized some young widows in the village to ask the 'respectable' Grandma Wang for advice, and by the way, he strengthened his own integrity.
Among these mobilized widows, one is the daughter of Master Bai, Lu Bai, whose name is Bai Chunjie, ahem! Nothing to explain.
Bai Chunjie is very beautiful and has a delicate temperament. Born with a moving charm that attracts men, he grew up in Baifu, a family of rites, and married into the Lu family at a young age, but it has only been more than a year. My husband died of illness for some reason.
Needless to say, for the sake of his own family, Uncle Lu insisted that she be a widow for the rest of her life and was not allowed to remarry. But based on the fact that she was only seventeen years old. Too young, there are still decades to come, and what a lonely and lonely environment will I live in. It's scary to ask yourself.
And Bai Chunjie was not reconciled, and when she returned to her parents' house, she inevitably complained, smashing pots and bowls at every turn, crying and crying. Both Master Bai and Uncle Lu felt that she did not listen to the old man's etiquette and did not have the determination to be loyal and observant, so they were very worried, so they ordered Bai Chunjie to go to Wu Wang's house.
Wu Wang, Wang Fuzhi, who had a hot fight with Uncle Lu when he was young, was very puzzled. Could it be that these two old things have forgotten their previous Meng Lang behavior? It's really funny, but let yourself help Bai Chunjie, the child, and give her the benefits of keeping the festival and the supreme glory of the archway of chastity.
Grandma Wang is very disdainful of false names, only she knows how she survived in this life, the bastard of the old man Lu, who ruthlessly broke his chastity when he was young, and the bastard of the old man Bai, forgot that he was the first widow and touched in every other time? Wait for their own people to be old and yellow, and never see them again.
Now it's a serious way to set up a memorial arch for yourself, and run for yourself with all the might, how do you dare to atone for your sins?
"Call the boy." Grandma Wang still happily agreed.
The next day, Bai Chunjie came very reluctantly under the urging of the two old men. As soon as I entered the door, I saw that the old lady was living alone in a big house, empty, and instantly felt what is called emptiness and loneliness, Bai Chunjie was scared.
Look at the old lady sitting bored, gray-haired, real people are not like people, ghosts are not like ghosts, how to pass this ghost-like life? It's better to be a monk and a sister-in-law, who also has a bodhisattva as a companion, and you can also knock on the wooden fish roll and roll beads to recite Buddhist scriptures to pass the time.
For a while, Bai Chunjie wanted to hear what this old lady who had been widowed all her life thought.
As soon as Grandma Wang saw her so young, so lively, so well-proportioned and sultry figure, her bright eyes, and her peach blossom appearance, she immediately recalled her youth, her other self, the real village flower of Lujia Village.
Recalling that year, he made a big mistake, he was hooked up by Old Man Lu at a young age, he lost his body and didn't say anything, and he misheard his instigation, and married the sick ghost of the Wu family, Chongxi, and ended up being a widow.
At first, the hateful old man Lu also came to be a dewy couple with her, and after a few days of happy life, and then he had a new love, so he ignored himself anymore and called himself a widow. Later, Old Man Bai came, Old Man Li came, Old Man Zhang came, until no one came.
I endured it for decades, endured the pain of loneliness, and finally survived. When I don't know it, my body has become a piece of wood, numb and unconscious, and my heart has become like a pool of stagnant water, not moving at all.
Unexpectedly, in her later years, she would become a tool for them to maintain etiquette, and Grandma Wang thought it was really ridiculous. (To be continued......)