Chapter 461

Arranged marriage is like "buying a cat through a cloth bag". If the parties do not meet, it all depends on luck.

I'm lucky to meet a reliable matchmaker. I'm looking for a worthy match and spend my life. If I meet a matchmaker who only recognizes money, I'm afraid I'll regret it all my life. Black and white are reversed, and the top deceives the bottom. This kind of thing is very common in the secular world.

"Love begins with love and ends with ceremony. This is Kong Sheng's proposal. Nowadays, secular marriage has never met before marriage. How can true love come from courtesy first and then love? How many marriages in the world are like empty shells, like walking corpses. How can parents in the world bear to let their children fall into endless pain." Merton cried in pain.

The reason why sincere love stories will be widely spread once they appear in ancient times is that they are too rare to be particularly precious.

Anyone with a clear eye can see that Merton's remark is just an excuse for his commitment under the moon, but a bloody fact makes people unable to argue. Merton's article directly reveals the beauty shrouded in secular marriage and reveals the most cruel part. All those who read it are silent.

However, this is not Merton's purpose. What really makes everyone uneasy is the fifth marriage summarized by Merton - buying and selling marriage.

"When you marry a daughter in a top-grade family, you pay attention to family background, talent and character. When you marry a daughter in a bottom-grade family, you can't ask for money. Greedy parents decide their son-in-law with bride price, just like buying things in the market." Merton's words are extremely sharp, which makes people lose face in his heart.

In the feudal era, the idea of son preference was particularly serious. Many families thought it was not cost-effective to have a daughter, and even despised it as losing money.

Under this idea, when many families marry a daughter, they often take the financial size as the basis. Whichever family gives a high bride price, they will marry their daughter to which family, just like buying and selling goods.

"On potential husband · breaking the lawsuit" mentioned that in the Han Dynasty, in order to be greedy for money, some women even "had several families" with their daughters, which finally caused trouble in the government and became a joke at that time.

However, this trend did not stop. In the Tang Dynasty, it became more and more intense. Not only did a woman have a lot of things, but the man took the initiative to increase his weight in order to compete for marriage. Even the greedy parents sold cardamom girls to the old man for money. In those days, the Mohist village was repeatedly humiliated. Even the agreed marriage was because of color How many marriages have been missed due to insufficient gifts.

"This money is the money of sin, which is based on the pain, blood and tears of children." Merton's words made everyone cold. How can you feel at ease even if you take this money to buy your daughter.

"Sixth, parents interfere in marriage, peacocks fly southeast and wander for five miles..."

Peacock Flying Southeast is a Yuefu poem familiar to scholars. It is based on the love story between Jiao Zhongqing and his wife Liu Lanzhi. It is actually a tragedy of parents' interference in marriage.

In this age of parents' orders, parents' opinions on marriage can be said to be decided in one word. I don't know how many human tragedies have been caused.

"Red and crisp hands, yellow Teng wine. The city is full of spring. The palace walls are full of willows. The east wind is evil, and the joy is thin. With a melancholy mood, it has been gone for several years. Wrong.

Spring is like old, people are empty and thin. Tears are red, mackerel gauze is transparent. Peach blossoms fall, leisure pool Pavilion. Although the mountain alliance is there, the brocade book is difficult to trust. Mo mo. "

People with the same fate as Jiao Zhongqing in history may have to mention a poet, Lu you. Lu You also repaired his wife Tang Wan because of his mother's interference, so that he regretted it all his life.

In later generations, Tang Wan and Lu You were close relatives. Now the Mohist school has already made it clear that the harm of marriage between close relatives is obvious. Therefore, even if the historical track remains unchanged, they can not be married. Today, Merton wrote hairpin head Phoenix. Red crisp hand under the guise of Jiao Zhongqing's story, which can not let the word sink.

"The second word?"

In Chongwen hall, Li Chengqian looked at the hairpin Phoenix in Ink magazine and sighed.

Everyone thought that although the "jade case. New Year's Eve" was good, it was a flash in the pan, but they didn't expect that only a few days later, Merton even made the same popular word.

"Brother Mo is really a great talent with ancient poems as new words."

What makes Li Chengqian sigh is that Merton's poem is the second creation in Peacock Flying Southeast.

The position of Peacock Flying Southeast in literature needless to say, ordinary people dare not continue to be a dog's tail and a mink, but Merton's hairpin Phoenix is very consistent with Peacock Flying Southeast.

"No, there's a third word." Li Tai shook his head.

Merton then wrote the same hairpin Phoenix in the tone of Liu Lanzhi.

"The world is thin, the human relationship is evil, and the rain sends the evening flowers. The morning wind is dry, and the tears are residual. If you want to write your mind, lean on the inclined column alone. Difficult! Difficult! Difficult!

People become different. This is not yesterday. The sick soul is often like a swing rope. The sound of the horn is cold, the night is waning, afraid of being asked, swallowing tears and pretending to be happy. Hide! Hide! Hide! "

When Li Tai saw the second hairpin Phoenix, he was speechless for a long time. The two words complement each other and tell a love tragedy from the perspective of men and women, which makes people sigh with regret.

What caused such a love tragedy is naturally self-evident. Naturally, it is an arranged marriage.

Li Tai and Li Chengqian can't help looking at each other. For the young generation, they are naturally full of longing for their love. However, if they really do, as Merton said, they don't see it before marriage and wantonly interfere, they suddenly shudder.

At the moment, a hundred of them agreed with Merton's point of view, but they suddenly gave a cold hum when they thought that Merton abandoned Changle and argued for the woman who had not appeared so far.

"The Mohist School believes that marriage is a sacred thing, which is related to the fate of men and women all their lives. How can others dominate it? Dunton believes that although the orders of parents and the words of matchmakers are essential, both men and women are the final decision-making power. Therefore, the orders of parents, the words of matchmakers and the willingness of both sides are the great goodness of human relations."

Of course, Merton did not dare to call for the concept of free love in future generations. I'm afraid once it was put forward, it would add to the snake. On the basis of his parents' orders and the words of a matchmaker, Merton opened a small hole for both men and women to decide, which is a great progress.

"Parents' orders and matchmakers' words are voluntary."

After reading this, countless people can't help but brighten their eyes. If secular marriage can be so, it will not only take into account the secular etiquette, but also solve the disadvantages of arranged marriage, which makes people applaud the case.

"Is it good for Mohist scholars to say so?"

All the people in front of the ink magazine nodded and praised. Let's ask, who doesn't want to have a happy marriage in the world? If you can decide to choose a person you love to grow old together, it will be the wish of your life.

However, how can we make both men and women voluntarily meet and communicate before marriage? In this way, Quan Wanji's criticism of Merton's private meeting women is naturally self defeating.