Wife-pawned ： The tumor of Chinese marriage system

典妻：中国婚姻制度的毒瘤

Wife-pawned:The system has a long history.The earliest can be traced back to the Han Dynasty.

In ancient times,especially in rural areas,the status of women is inferior.

Once a woman is married,they become male family private goods.

In the feudal society,rural people's life is very poor.Because of poverty,these man pawned his wife for money.At that time,this kind of phenomenon is very common.

The pawned woman went to the rich family to give birth to the rich man.

After the baby's born,about three to five years later,the woman could go back to her home.

The contract of "pawning wife"

We can see some pictures:

The film is "slave mother".It's about wife pawned.

The author is ROUSHI who is very

famous in Chinese modern literature.The

film is adapted to his novel.

It is one the typical Chinese folk customs that I want to introduce.

In addition,I also want to introduce the other one.Up to now,it is still spread in parts of chinese countryside.

Ghost weddings冥婚

This is a kind of folk custom.One form is both dead,the otheris the living and the dead.

The people living in rural places are more superstitious.They think the longly grave will affect the FengShui.So if their children are died but not married,they will find the other died child to make them get married.It called ghost weddings.It also expressed the love to the child.

The other kind is the living and the dead get married.

Usually the rich young unmarried woman died,the family will finda man to marry her and inherit property.

This a real picture.We can see the woman'sfoot is impending.Because she's dead,thereis a bracket to support her in the behind .The man can inherit the woman's property after this ghost wedding.

In chinese modren literature,there's also a famous writer whose name is WANGLUYAN.His novel"The chrysanthemum married",which tells a story about ghost wedding i

n the countryside.

There is a 3 minutes vedio froma Korean TV.I want to mention thatin the TV they set the host of the ghostwedding is a Chinese.So I think this chinese folk custom is spread and affectother country.

At last,I think no matter the wife-pawned or the ghost weddings both are the tumor of Chinese marriage system. In parts of China,especially in the countryside,some phenomenon still exists.I think that We should cancel outmoded customs and establish new ones.