Men in Love and Polygamy in China

Men in Love and Polygamy in China Grandfather didn’t want the burden of more than one woman. He did not believe in polygamy. Though he was a dashing man with a charismatic light of demeanor and he could have had many women. His character was like the Jiangxi talent in Soong dynasty, Wen Tian Xiang, a representative of Jiangxi’s high quality, an unyielding righteous court official who would rather die than surrender to the invading Mongols. Wen Tian Xiang was an extraordinarily brave man with a handsome visage and dignified character. He was number one in the royal academy test and was nominated as the champion by the emperor himself in the test hall when he was merely 20 years old. Like his predecessor, China’s great national hero Wen Tian Xiang didn’t surrender to the invading Mongols, my grandfather as a Nationalist official didn’t surrender to the invading Japanese. He organized numerous projects to resist and eventually win the excruciating war to expel Japan.

So grandfather’s regional culture Jiangxi province is for the pride of Wen, and he upheld his value and standard. Like his predecessors In comparison, the Hunan Mao’s character was very sentimental. There is a different character and behavioral mode in different provinces. As in ancient time, different regions have borders and state principalities, with regional food, language, and sets of personality. The Geographical Character Bound by Geography Grandfather didn’t ever want another woman to be in the family as my grandmother. This was because of his own childhood painful experience, when his father left to be with another woman and left his mother. Grandfather was raised by a very scornful stepmother and suffered. He was trying to even have his mother’s tomb stone relocated to be next to his father’s. Be as he tried, that tombstone dropped on the ground and almost on his feet. He sensed the ‘impossibility and unwillingness’ of love and marriage in his parents. Grandfather consciously suppressed his desire and in opposition to Chinese tradition of men’s need to love multiple objects and to be reciprocated by many women’s attention. This takes the form of numerous wives, and concubines, and maids. This caused the social system to be divided in a family for unity. From a larger scope, the Xi Jin (Western Jin) Dynasty (265 - 316 AD), which had 2000 generals of the same last name Sima, caused the era in history dubbed the “Great Eight Feudal Lords Mayhem” which undermined the entire nation’s strength and China at that time was indeed invaded by five alien tribes referred to as "Five Alien Tribes Roiling China", and the capital was moved from Luoyang, Henan province to Yangtze river, Nanjing, to become the Eastern Jin dynasty, Dong Jin Dynasty (Eastern Jin, 317-420 AD) After general Sima usurped Cao Cao's Wei country throne, he sensed that the Cao family had too few sons and so he had many Sima family sons in charge of the country, as many as 2000 Sima surname were scattered across the entire China, each with a feudal land of control.

Eastern Dong Jin is the Era when China’s Capital Moved east to the Sea Coast for the First Time This marked the beginning of the end of the China Proper region as the glorious political center, as the national capital moved to the coast for the first time rather than in the interior. My Grandfather was an only child. He was a reformer and he cultivated new ideas of reform and practiced them in his own life. The Chinese cultural tendency is polygamy, and he went against the grain of ideology and the accepted social norm. Only the law puts a rational boundary, although too many are breaking the law. It is society’s unwritten rule with public consent. China’s individuals are never detached from a family, and the social contacts. The only exceptions are some who decide to hide as hidden Taoists and do not deal with the mundane world. When Love Runs Rampant with Chinese Men It is like unleashing the Great Wall to allow the foreign troops to intervene with the bandit Li ZhiCheng, who unleashed the river dam to flood the Luoyang region and who took away the General Wu SanGui’s concubine Chen Yuan Yuan. Men would sell out their country’s interest to invite in the invaders, just so that their lover can be returned. Many like Yangzhou slaughter were annihilated because of his selfish aim. In the end, the woman Chen Yuan Yuan committed suicide in a lily pond in a nunnery in Yunnan mountain remote region. Men grab the prize, and then desert, once the prize belongs to them. Men do foolish things for women. Tang Ming Huang emperor asked his favorite concubine consort Yang Gui Fei to hang herself, in order to soothe and appease the soldiers’ demand to continue on to the far exile road. Polygamist men ultimately sacrifice their women. Written by Free Mind on April 5th The Sweeping Tomb for Ancestors Qing Ming Festival