If you, as a woman, were unfortunately born in ancient times, how many levels would you have to overcome to survive “lucky”?
Even if you survive and survive, how much inhuman treatment will you have to experience before you can reach the end and end well?
Level 1: Drowning kills baby girl
In an era when birth control methods were extremely scarce and backward, poor families were faced with the contradiction between the continuous birth of children and the lack of ability to raise them, so parents could only kill baby girls with low “cost-effectiveness”.
Second pass: child bride
If your parents think that giving birth to a daughter is to help someone else’s family to raise a daughter-in-law, and they have to endure the pain of being separated from their relatives when they marry their daughter, they will be poor and change their minds. They should just give you away from a young age and give them to rich people to support their wives. Also get some money.
The third pass: martyrdom
Either die for her husband and become a “martyr girl”. Swallowing gold, drinking arsenic, going on hunger strike, hanging yourself, you can die any way you want, but you have to be quick. As soon as your husband dies, you have to die immediately.
You don’t want to die, you have to be a widow and be a “wife”. When the in-laws are sick, they have to “cleanse and taste the feces, eat the gangrene to heal the relatives”, that is, to taste the feces to identify the disease, and suck the abscesses on their bodies.
Stage 4: Selling a Wife and Renting a Concubine
Husbands may also sell their wives for money. Treating women with clearly marked prices as goods, the 5-year contract of the Republic of China “sells a wife”, a man named Chen Zhengjie “sold” his wife to a man named Jia Fuxiang, and gave birth to a child for the Jia family. The children born, whether male or female, all share the Jia family name. For this, Chen Zhengjie can get 180 pieces of ocean. This contract contains the fingerprints of the wife, the middleman, the witness, and the writer, but the most important person in the contract, the pawned woman Chen Zheng’s. She was not even allowed to put a bond on this contract of persecuting and slaughtering herself.
In this contract, every word and every word is related to her, but there is no recognition between the lines that she is a person.