How did the ancients protect marriage?

As we all know, Yan Zhenqing (709-785) was a famous calligrapher in the Tang Dynasty, and Yan Ti was his original creation, which has been passed down to this day. In fact, Yan Zhenqing is also a famous official. He is the secretariat of Fuzhou and has done many good things for the local people. Linchuan had a strong style of study at that time. Yang Zhijian is a student in Fuzhou, whose family is poor, but she loves learning. His wife couldn't stand poverty and asked for a divorce. Yang Zhijian wrote a poem "Send a Wife", which showed that he was determined to study but agreed to divorce. Yang's wife presented this poem as evidence of divorce to Yan Zhenqing's secretariat. After reading Yang's poems, Yan Zhenqing sympathized with his experience and admired his hard-working spirit. He punished Yang's wife for being too poor and loving the rich, gave cloth and food, and left Yang in the department.

Yan Zhenqing's "Wen Zhong Ji" recorded this incident and an interesting judgment: Yang Zhijian is known as Confucianism, and reading the Nine Classics is coquettish in poetry. A fool's wife is estranged because she has never met her. Wang Huan's jealousy is empty, so you follow Huang Juan; Chaucer's wife must go and would rather see a gorgeous dress. Humiliate the countryside and ruin the customs. If there is no praise or criticism, there are many lucky people. Twenty years later, I will remarry. Yang Zhijian scholar gave 20 pieces of cloth and 20 meters of stones, so they were sent to the army, which was known to people far and near.

Yan Zhenqing's literary accomplishment is very high, and his argument is scattered, not only beautifully written, but also aptly used. He interspersed the historical allusions of Yan Qian and two women in the Western Han Dynasty who remarried because their husbands were poor, which was of great educational significance.

Ma Song Guangzu reduced Mulan to promote marriage.

Ma Guangzu (120 1- 1270) is the same as Fan Zhongyan and Wang Anshi in Song Dynasty. He used to be the magistrate of Lin 'an and Jiankang. During his tenure as magistrate, Ma Guangzu enforced the law impartially and handled cases for the people. At the same time, he also wrote many interesting judgments.

In unofficial history in the Three Dynasties, Wu Lai recorded the verdict of Ma Guangzu's clever judgment of a marriage with epigrams in the Yuan Dynasty. It is said that when Ma Guangzu was making a magistrate of Jingkou County, a scholar climbed over the wall and entered the room of the girl he loved, which was discovered by the woman's family and taken to the yamen. When Ma Guangzu asked about the cause of the case, he saw that the scholar was gentle and unlike the wicked, so he wanted to help. Then I interviewed the scholar on the topic of "Poem of Holding a Virgin over the Wall", and the scholar wrote a bad book: Hualiu was in debt all her life, and she was deeply in love for a while. Climbing over the wall, the virgin has a heart to hug. Xie build by laying bricks or stones should dive, Xu stole it secretly. Love is still lust, silence is strong and shy. Carry out Qin Lou's promise and learn to be a prisoner. Since this is the case, why should we study it?

After reading it, Ma Guangzu was moved by the scholar's writing style and true feelings and praised it on the spot. Instead of punishing the scholar's indecent behavior, he filled out a poem "Minus Magnolia" and sentenced them to get married: love each other deeply and pay off their debts for life. It's really Tan Lang, a maid is not as good as a wife. Jie Cai's work is excellent. He said he would give the green fly 300 ropes. Candle shadows shake red, remember that the iceman is a horseman. After the verdict was pronounced, the woman married the girl and gave her a generous dowry, which became a much-told story for a while. This judgment is novel, unique and amazing. Therefore, it was included in the Song Ci, and the Yuan Zaju was also adapted into the repertoire performance of Ma Guangzu's "Looking at the Dust", which spread more widely.

Li Qing, an official promoted by the Ming Dynasty, sentenced the barren woman with allusions.

Li Qing (1602- 1683) was a famous writer and jurist in the Ming Dynasty. He handled many criminal and civil cases when he was an official in Ningbo. He wrote A New Record of Prison Break, which is the only existing collection of Ming Dynasty judgments in China. This book has ten volumes, 2 10 judgments. Li Qing's judgment is very distinctive. Each article mentions the word "Shende", indicates the name and place of origin of the party concerned, and then describes the case. These judgments are concise and wonderful, with mixed poems and allusions, brilliant literary talent and harmonious writing.

Let's take a look at the following article: Wang San was sentenced to be a slave girl, but Ru Chen can be a righteous sister. First, because the father of Sancai succeeded to the throne, he paid 22 taels of silver to hire a big slave to be the daughter of Sancai. A great slave is a barren woman's ear, saying that peaches and plums are indifferent, and bees and butterflies have no time to ask. After Sancai was together, Sancai regretted it and returned the slave to you. I dare not expect the jade in Lantian, but I am afraid of the seedlings in the field after despair. Then you should also pay the dowry. Why is procrastination not worth it, and it is controlled by an unfair life? At first, you can still hold the barren woman. It's fake. Call two stable women to test it, but it's true. If there is no man in the country, it will be born according to the well. However, no matter what happens on the balcony, there is no ladder below, and I am afraid I will be infertile. But if you have the ability, let the three talents fly, relying only on the Wushan dream, not the rope to take over. This is a kind of face-to-face bullying. You should be killed with a stick, and you should pay 22 taels to settle the case.

The verdict reads: A man named Wang Jixian spent twenty taels of silver to marry Chen Runeng's righteous sister and slave for his son Wang Sancai. After the marriage, Wang Sancai discovered that Da Nu was a barren woman and regretted it, so he returned Da Nu to Chen Runneng. Chen Runneng didn't believe that the slave was a barren woman, so he sued Wang Sancai to the government and refused to return the bride price of twenty-two silver. After the government verified that the slave was indeed a barren woman, Li Qing sentenced Chen Ru to face-to-face fraud, scolded Chen Runeng and asked him to return the dowry of 220 taels of silver. Li Qing's judgment is reasonable, and her judgment is also very wonderful. It uses a lot of classics and allusions, as well as rhetorical devices such as metaphor and antithesis, which are fascinating to read.

Yu Chenglong's skill of punishing shrew in Qing Dynasty.

In the Qing dynasty, such judgments were even more. In the early years of the Republic of China, the book Seven Editions of Judgments by Famous Officials in Qing Dynasty, edited by Jin Xiage, recorded more than 1000 judgments by Yu Chenglong, Li Hongzhang and other famous officials in Qing Dynasty, which was a collection of poetic judgments and reflected the highest achievement of similar judgments in this era.

Yu Chenglong (16 17- 1684), known as the most upright official in the Qing Dynasty, skillfully punished a shrew with his unique judgment, saved her marriage and restored her family peace.

There is a villager named Du in Chengguan Village. His son Du married Liu, who was aggressive, and Du was famous for being henpecked. On weekdays, when I saw Liu, my legs began to tremble and my speech was awkward. One day, Du came back from his cousin's house, and his cousin asked him to bring him a pair of embroidered shoes. I don't want Liu to suspect Du was having an affair from the beginning. This pair of embroidered shoes is a symbol of mutual gift. So, Du was slapped three times, and then he was fined to pull up his pants and kneel on the washboard. If he doesn't tell the truth, he will be punished even more. Du couldn't bear to see his son being so abused, so he came to prove his innocence. Liu, who expected to be angry, didn't even show his father-in-law's kindness. Instead, he said that Lao Tzu defended his son and dared to commit perjury. Even cursing loudly, tears and snot were wiped on my father-in-law's face, and my beard was pulled out. Du was so humiliated that he was furious that he had to complain to the court, find an honest official to decide the case and divorce the bitch. After careful interrogation and deliberation, Du was not sentenced to divorce with a stroke of a pen, but a playful judgment was issued, urging them to review themselves and repair their marriage:

Liu got rabies, biting and barking; Partly cloudy, suffering from henpecked and shameless incompetence. Forgetting righteousness and beating her husband; It doesn't hurt to keep a house, and it doesn't hurt to be beaten by your wife. The washboard is so sharp that the coward's knees are broken; The beard was taken away by the shrew. Loose lips, flower shoes became tokens; Out of nothing, the boudoir became a court. Weak and incompetent, self-inflicted; It affects the innocent, but it affects the elders. Some cloudy people want to take their husbands to make pills again and reshape the image of men; Liu will have to soak in the vinegar jar for three months before she can regain her femininity. This official wrote this prescription, you go back and get it. If there is such madness again, I will double my weight. This sentence.