Where does monogamy come from--the evolution of human private life

Find, the natural, the ancient men and women's affairs, the parents can completely decide, "the parents ' life, matchmaker", even pulp. Now, marriage has become the heart of the young people's pain, creating a large number of remaining male left. Free love Age, why marriage has become so difficult. Want to know where the marriage is going and see how it came about.

In the age of ignorance, needless to say, more fornication than animals, burrowing hybrids.


The Paleolithic period (about 2.5 million years ago) was taboo, banning the intercourse between siblings. The first mating taboo is a marriage-grade system to prohibit the mating of different generational, according to Playa de Mogan, only seen in the most primitive Australian natives. Indicates the marital level, between the sibling mating.


The marriage system developed into a clan, the matriarchal, seen in the United States of America, the archipelago, now the Solomon Islands, the Fiji Islands, the clan is forbidden to marry. This is called Punaluan.


Neolithic, men hunt for food in the total of 20%, provide nutritious protein, clan struggle when powerful, provide genes, so men are still very important at this time.

4300 BC to 3000 BC, the matriarchal turned to paternity: 1 by the nomadic people's way of life, the opportunity to get along with men and women, understand the meaning of "father", 2, the nomadic War on agriculture, the symbol of the holy grail of the mother is symbolized by the patriarchal sword smash, Engels said the "female world historic defeat."


Just enter the Patriarchal Clan society, marriage, compared to the punaluan of marriage system, is a retrogression, the reason is two, the first, indeed the lack of women, more important is the second, to keep property not outflow. During the spring and Autumn Period, the QI, Ancient Greece, and the Jewish same.


In the Zhou Dynasty, the establishment of strict monogamy, and the provision of "system matchmaker, with six rites", which robbed marriage and dual marital remains serious at that time, played a role in consolidating marriage.


As a result of the implementation of the Zhou, the so-called "punishment is not doctor, ritual not the ordinary", the Zhou Dynasty husband and wife is not thorough. Spring and autumn Warring States Period, or a piece of fornication.


Until the qin, Shang Yang reform, tax and corvee directly linked with adult men, thus breaking the clan structure, replaced, is a small family, only a monogamous soil. Qin also grew rapidly with the new law, unifying the whole country.

After that dynasty, strict monogamy was practised. As for the concubinage, the different dynasties, and the husband and wife are strictly observed.

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Where does monogamy come from--the evolution of human private life