"Di" is a Chinese vocabulary, and the pinyin "Di" refers to "Di Zi" and "number". The language "Liezi Mo Lifeng" says: "The Qigong clan is favored by many people, and the official and the ordinary go hand in hand."
Source: Note: "Gongsun, born in the year of Yiyou, is his mother's brother, ignorant, and loved by the public, making the position of courtesy the same as that of the prince." "History of the Last Han Dynasty, Records of Hundred Officials III": "Zong Zheng, Qing, one person, wins two thousand stones. This note reads: the palm sequence records the era of the kingdom's tenure and the distance between royal relatives. " Biography of Yang Lian in Ming Dynasty: "There is no suspicion of being rude to the sea today."
So the so-called first relatives are your immediate relatives, such as grandpa, dad, son and grandson, who belong to the first relatives, while ordinary relatives, such as uncles and uncles, belong to ordinary relatives.
Ancient feudal system:
In ancient Japan and the Korean peninsula, polygamy was also practiced, and there were also humble systems.
North Korea; South Korea
On the Korean peninsula, the difference between Li and Li feudalism in the Korean era is very strict. Men and women of different classes cannot get married. If a man of lower rank marries a woman of higher rank, it is a crime of kidnapping and the marriage is invalid. With few exceptions, a woman of lower status can only be a concubine but not a wife if she wants to marry a man of higher status.
After Zheng Lanzhen, the concubine of the Queen's brother Yin, died in the first room, the Queen of Wen Ding allowed her to be promoted to wife and awarded her the title. At that time, there was a "mother-in-law", that is, children inherited their mother's social class, except royal or royal children.
An illegitimate child who is not a royal family or an imperial clan should take his father, his father's first wife, brothers and sisters as his master, while his mother, if she is a pariah, is more equivalent to a handmaiden in the family. The king's son is called the king, and the illegitimate child is called the king; The eldest daughter is called princess, and the common daughter is called Lord Weng. The first daughter of the imperial clan is called princess, and the common daughter is called princess.
Japan
In ancient Japan, only upper-class people usually had multiple wives, except the first wife, which was called the wing room. In Japanese, concubines refer to women who are informally married and live together with married people, that is, China's mistress.
Analyze the truth:
The distinction between the official and the ordinary almost begins with the "patriarchal clan system" of the Zhou Dynasty. The most important thing in the patriarchal clan system is the expression of the eldest son inheritance system.
The so-called "land" actually means authentic and orthodox. In ancient times, polygamy allowed a man to take the first wife and take several concubines. The status of wives and concubines is different. Although their children are the father's, they are also "different".
The children born by the first wife's wife are called "first children", and the most important is the first son, which is called "first son".
Children born in concubines can only be called concubines. Because some concubines are relatively humble women, and some have changed from domestic slaves or dowry maids to concubines, their children are not very valued.
Children depend on their mother.
There is always a saying that "the mother depends on the child" when watching Gongdou drama. So-and-so's little promise is unpopular, because an emperor was drunk and dazzled, had an affair, got pregnant, and gave birth to a dragon seed ten months later, successfully reversing his life against the wind.
Of course, this is only the harem rule of most ancient dynasties, and there are exceptions. For example, in the Northern Wei Dynasty, in order to prevent consorts from interfering in government affairs, their practice was to directly give his mother a gift of death once a prince was created as a prince.
The distribution of "local script" is quite different from that of "mother depends on mother", that is, "son depends on mother". Because in the past, the marriage between the nobility and the royal family had nothing to do with love at all, but was basically a strategy or a bundle of interests.
The ancients had a completely different understanding of marrying a maiden with a wife and concubines. Liu, one of the eight beauties in Qinhuai, married money in those days, and one of the requirements was to marry according to the ostentation and extravagance.
It takes three books and six gifts to marry a wife with one room. Marrying a concubine may be carried into the backyard in a sedan chair at night and lit two red candles.
Then, this difference will continue. Mrs Tang Huo's legally born child can soar on both sides of the east wind.
Even the son of the emperor, if his mother is not a queen, can only be a foil to the fate of children who leave their jobs everywhere.
It doesn't matter if Mrs. Tang Huo doesn't give birth legally. She can "inherit", that is, take the children of other concubines and raise them. In the genealogy, it will also be stated that this child was legally born by Mrs. Tang Huo. In the future, children will be no different from their eldest sons in marriage and inheritance. You know it should be green, fat, red and thin? Although Ming Lan was born out of wedlock, because of her mother's death, her name recorded Mrs. Tang Huo's name in law, and she had the identity of her first daughter. When Gu told the emperor that he wanted to marry Sheng's daughter, he also said that he was Sheng's first daughter.
Di Zi's position is very important. If there is a throne in the family, then it must be considered first. If there is a title in the family, only Di Zi, especially the eldest son, has the right to inherit it. Even under the same roof, I'm afraid the younger brother who lives together will salute his younger brother, and his position will be shortened by half a head at once.
The ancient concept of "the distinction between ordinary people and ordinary people" went deep into the bone marrow, causing many tragedies and some "mysteries" For example, it is said that the Yongle Emperor Judy was a very capable emperor. In order to have an "orthodox" identity, he laboriously turned his mother into Zhu Yuanzhang's original Ma Huanghou.
There is a saying in the ancients that "the name is irregular and the words are not smooth", and the patriarchal clan system and the distinction between local and ordinary have a great influence on people at that time.
The difference between official and ordinary makes the fate completely different.
The distinction between office and ordinary people has a great influence not only on men in the past, but also on girls.
Lin Daiyu entered Jia's house for the first time in A Dream of Red Mansions. Wang Xifeng praised her like a fairy princess: "Unlike the grandchild of her ancestors, she is actually the granddaughter of her first relatives." This sentence made grandma very happy and flattered.
This sentence is not only the difference between granddaughter and granddaughter, but also the first relative.
The granddaughter of Jia's real in-laws is Jia Yuanchun, who has become a high-ranked imperial concubine. Neither of them is the granddaughter of a "monk", which suddenly improves Lin Daiyu's status and flatters Jia, and Jia is naturally happy.
Jia Tanchun, a serious Miss Jia, is always a foil because her mother is Aunt Zhao. Tanchun has always alienated his mother, refused to recognize his uncle, and moved closer to Mrs. Wang in the main room. Because only in this way can she truly gain a foothold in Jiafu.
Aunt Zhao has a child named Jia Huan besides Tanchun. He is Jia Baoyu's own brother, with the same father and surname. Just because Baoyu's mother is Mrs. Wang and his mother, Aunt Zhao, is just an aunt, they are treated differently.
Let's just say that Jia Huan is not treated as well as Jia Baoyu. He doesn't have so many beautiful maids to wait on him, so much grandma's love and so much good education. Even in the view of their father Jia Zheng, no matter how naughty Baoyu is, he will not deprive Baoyu of his inheritance, but place his hopes on Jia Huan.
Li Huanbi and Zhen Yurao, the queens in the palace, are both sisters of Zhen Xuan. One can only be a maid and the other can be a good girl. And Queen Yixiu also has a line called "How painful a woman is born!" She married the emperor herself as a concubine, but she had to give way to the married Chunyuan.
This is the result of the distinction of "being humble", which will lead to different opportunities, different circles, and even make people abandon their family ties.
Become the "illegitimate child" of the tool man
Many illegitimate children in ancient times were ignored. To what extent? Directly as a tool.
During the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, there was a story of "Tian Daiqi". We all know that King Zhou sealed Jiang Taigong Lu Shang in Qi State, but Guo Jun of Qi State was not always a descendant of Jiang Taigong, because a man named Tian Heng was killed in half.
Tian Heng had the idea of replacing Lu in charge of Qi, but his clan was weak. Later, he came to his son Tian Chang, and Tian Chang thought of a good way. He found himself a lot of women with good genes as concubines, allowing guests and roommates to freely enter and leave his residence. As a result, it is conceivable that Tian Chang soon had many "illegitimate children", up to more than 70 at most.
It's hard to say who these 70 children are, but they are all surnamed Tian. After Tian Chang's eldest son Pan Tian became the monarch of Qi, more than 70 of his "brothers" became his right-hand men to govern Qi.
It can be seen that even the father himself may not care about the so-called "illegitimate child". At least for Tian Chang, it doesn't matter what color the hat is. It is more important to sit in the dragon chair or not.
This is the huge difference between the official and the ordinary.