A paper engagement itch for seven years, a paper engagement money. This is a concept of our marriage now, the seven-year itch, the diamond golden wedding. However, nowadays, the cost of marriage is getting higher and higher, but the cost of divorce is getting lower and lower. As long as you two have no emotional entanglements or economic entanglements, as long as both parties agree, you can go through the formalities in the Civil Affairs Bureau. But in ancient times, were there such divorce procedures and legal divorce agreements? The answer is yes: yes.

Older elders, perhaps from storytelling and drama, all know how the ancient divorce procedures were handled. Even young people who like to watch costume dramas know that there was a "divorce" in ancient times.

"Divorce in a Book" sounds so literary. Don't you know that this is one of the unreasonable social systems in which ancient smelly men violated the law? It seems to be equivalent to the current divorce, but most of them are male-led, unilaterally dissolving women's engagement. In ancient times, it was not recognized by law that men and women were engaged without the orders of their parents or the words of a matchmaker. But the words of a matchmaker are legally recognized. Once a marriage is divorced, it must be issued by the man, which is the so-called "divorce certificate".

This unreasonable system of withdrawing books can be traced back to the Han Dynasty. Although women are free to divorce, husbands have greater rights to divorce their wives. If you want to write a "divorce certificate" and order your wife to leave home, their relationship will be dissolved. This feudal system does not care about the quality of women.

In fact, there were laws and regulations in ancient times. Regulate the rules of marriage and divorce. There are four rules: the first rule is to be a wife. The second is to be harmonious but different. The third kind, righteousness. Fourth, file for divorce. Ask me what these four stand for? I can tell you it's long and smelly. I have summarized some brief meanings, so you may wish to have a look. Marriage means divorce, and divorce means peaceful divorce. Righteousness means forced divorce, and filing for divorce means informing the government. The right or wrong of marriage is judged by the government.

It can be seen that although there were laws and regulations in ancient times to protect women's rights and interests and marriage rights, in that feudal traditional society, the patriarchal society was more than a little biased towards men. It can't be like this. Women hold up half the sky.