Urban Superboy

Cao Yue had to stand up.

When he stood up, Zheng hanchong showed a charming smile to him. He seemed to believe that he could make an unusual conclusion.

Cao yuechong smiles and nods to Lou Shuguang on the podium.

At this time, many people took out their mobile phones and prepared to shoot the process of Cao Yue's discussion.

We all believe that today Cao Yue will still bring us a wonderful point of view.

"Now many people say that the marriage system in ancient China was polygamy. In fact, this is not true. In ancient China, monogamy has always been the system," Cao Yue preemptively expressed a different point of view, and then helplessly said to those students who were preparing to take pictures: "I hope students don't send videos to the Internet any more. I'm really afraid of my own opinions Is it OK to be scolded

Those students who are ready to take pictures can only promise that they dare not shoot videos openly again.

"Next, I will continue to state my views," said Cao Yue Lang Sheng. "In ancient times, a man could only have one wife. No matter how many concubines he had, he could not change this fact. Concubines were not his wives. The emperor is also the same, only the queen is his orthodox wife, is the woman who marries openly. The other concubines are the concubines of ordinary people. Although there have been two queens coexisting in history, that is a special case. In my opinion, if we want to make a conclusion on the ancient marriage system, it can only be said that "one husband, one wife and many concubines". If the information I have checked is correct, "three wives and four concubines" has never happened. "

"I don't agree with the ancient system of polygamy. I also think it's a kind of abnormal system that belittles women's social status," Cao Yuexu made a statement, and then the topic immediately began to turn. "But this system has existed for thousands of years. A system, which can last for thousands of years, naturally has its rationality of existence. "

"What is this rationality? Of course, some people say that it is the ancient tradition that men are superior to women, and women are the appendages of men. Therefore, it is reasonable for a man to have more than one woman. Women can only be hanged from one tree. " In the laughter of the students in the class, Cao Yue said his point of view, "I think its existence is the most reasonable, that is, the long-term imbalance of sex ratio in ancient China."

"Wars occurred frequently in ancient times. As we all know, the casualty rate of ancient wars was very high, and all the people who participated in the wars were men. When the dynasties changed, wars occurred frequently, even lasted for decades or hundreds of years. There were many deaths caused by wars, famine and pestilence caused by wars. This point has already been introduced in more detail in the lesson that Mr. Lou said just now

Cao Yue swallowed his saliva, moistened his throat, and continued: "now let's assume that if the population proportion is balanced before the war, then the population proportion will be unbalanced during and after the war, and the female population will be much more than the male population. Does anyone question my view? Speak up if you have

"No!" Wu Weiliang and Yang Zhongping roared, and others echoed. No one stood up against Cao Yue's hypothesis.

This is the fact, not to mention the ancient times, in modern Vietnam, after several wars, the ratio of male to female was unbalanced, the female population was much more than male, and many Vietnamese women could not get married. There are some Chinese men who can't get a wife and spend money to go to Vietnam to find wives.

"Let me give you another example to illustrate my point of view," Cao Yue said calmly. "In the Daye period of the late Sui Dynasty, there were nearly nine million households in China, with more than 50 million people. In the Wude period of the early Tang Dynasty, there were only two million households and more than 10 million people on the register. Some of these people may not be registered for various reasons, but the number can not be large. In other words, at least 23 million people died in the war at the end of the Sui Dynasty and the famine and plague caused by the war. Among them, the largest number of deaths must be men, and young men. The number of female deaths is far less than that of men. "

"Although no one has accurately counted the proportion of male and female population in the late Sui and early Tang Dynasties, we can imagine that the ratio of male to female population in the early Tang Dynasty is definitely very unbalanced. It is possible that the ratio of male to female is one to two, one to three or even higher." At this point, Cao Yue said with a smile, "I just want to ask a question. If the number of population is greatly reduced, the number of men is in a cliff like decline, and the proportion of male and female population is greatly unbalanced. At this time, if monogamy is required, a man can only have one woman. Is that at least half or more women can only be one A leftover woman? "

Cao Yue's question, once again attracted a roar of laughter.

Some people are quietly talking about it. At this time, it's really a man's paradise. Anyone can sit with more than one woman.

"When a new political power is established, the first thing the people in power should consider is to recuperate, resume production, develop economy, and the recovery of population is the top priority. If monogamy is required at this time, a man can only have one woman, so that many women have no man to marry, the recovery of the population must be very slow. For the sake of rapid population recovery, it is natural for a man to have more than one woman. "

"As we all know, the number of people killed by the war is very fast. In the end of Sui Dynasty and the beginning of Tang Dynasty, tens of millions of people disappeared in more than ten years. But it will take at least a hundred years or more for the population to recover from more than 10 million to more than 50 million. It takes only a moment to kill a person, but a person is fertile from birth to adulthood, at least for more than ten years. Moreover, the abnormal mortality rate of newborns and the total population in ancient times was very high. Even though the birth of drum calendar, the speed of population recovery was still slow. ""For this reason, many new regimes formulated various policies at the beginning of their establishment to increase the birth rate and increase the population growth rate. For example, in the Tang Dynasty, the law clearly stipulated that if a woman did not marry at the age of 18, her family would be punished. When you are 15, you can marry a woman at the age of 18. I think one of the reasons for the introduction of such rules is that the rulers have no choice but to take measures to restore the population. "

"As we all know, in ancient China, wars were very frequent, and the time of peace in every dynasty would not be long. The Han, Tang, song, and Ming Dynasties, which were relatively powerful and ruled for a long time, were all like this, and wars almost ran through the whole process. In other times, such as the Three Kingdoms and two Jin Dynasties, the northern and Southern Dynasties, the Five Dynasties and ten states wars were more frequent. Can I draw such a conclusion: in ancient China, the sex ratio between men and women has always been unbalanced, and the system of monogamy and multiple concubines was naturally put forward because of this situation, and it has been maintained for thousands of years. The ruling class has kept it in existence for the sake of population recovery and avoiding women being leftover women for a lifetime. "

"Therefore, I think that in the ancient times when wars were frequent, the system of monogamy and multiple concubines was probably a strategy formulated by the rulers in order to solve the actual situation of the population and enable the population to recover and develop as soon as possible. According to the actual situation at that time, this was not a system of destroying people, but a helpless act and remedial measure after the population dropped sharply. That's my point. Thank you. "

After Cao Yue finished, he also sat down.

After a while, master sounded in the classroom, and immediately got warm. Zheng Han, sitting beside Cao Yue, clapped and gave Cao Yue a thumbs up.

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