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How did ancient Chinese people find their lovers?
date:2016/11/18
How did ancient Chinese people find their lovers?How did ancient Chinese people find their lovers?
How did ancient Chinese people find their lovers?Compared to ancient people, we should feel grateful for having more freedom to find the person we want to be with. In ancient China, marriage was often decided by parents or even the government. And during some periods, like the Jin Dynasty (265-420), marriage policies could go to extremes. Single women must get married by a certain age. If a female was still single at 17, there would be a forced marriage with local administrators' involvement.
Extreme policies to force people to get married were rare. Ancient Chinese had milder ways to encourage people to find a spouse.
Yet not all of them were lucky enough to marry someone, due to the small number of women in the area.
Ancient Chinese still had certain freedoms to get married with people they liked, rather than being completely manipulated by their parents or government.
Lantern Festival was another opportunity for single people to meet. On the night of that day, unmarried men and women would meet at the flower fair and lantern-decorated street.
Romance often happened, although not all of them ended in happiness.
Ouyang Xiu, a famous poet from the Song Dynasty, depicted a woman's longing for the man she met during Lantern Festival in his poem Yuan Xi.
It goes like this: "last lantern festival, the flowers fair decorated with lights were daylight bright. We met after dusk when the moon rose behind willow trees. This year the moon and lanterns are still the same, yet you are not here anymore. I am sad, with tears shed on the sleeves of my spring coat."
However, there were still some people who enjoyed being single and willingly chose to lead their own lifestyle.Some ancient Chinese women chose to look after her parents instead of getting married.And a certain number of men and women preferred a silent single life in monasteries as monks, nuns or Taoist priests. Not only common people but also royals made this choice.
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