Master Archaeologist

Chapter 193 Zhao Lan is not married to the same surname

"It's actually engraved with the seal of Mrs. You, not the seal of Mrs. You."

"It seems that this Nanyue King Wen's harem, apart from the queen who is not sure whether she exists or not, is headed by Mrs. You."

Professor Li stroked his chin and thought.

A queen, or empress, is not necessarily a necessity.

Although it is said that the Western Han Dynasty began with Liu Bang, every emperor would immediately appoint a queen after he ascended the throne.

However, the national conditions of the Nanyue Kingdom are different from those of the Central Committee of the Western Han Dynasty.

The upper class nobles of the Nanyue Kingdom came from the Qin Kingdom.

And it was born in the era when Qin Shihuang lived.

Qin Shihuang, who is his queen, is not recorded in the history books.

Logically speaking, he should have a queen.

Otherwise, Fusu would not be recorded as the "son of the first line".

But the queen of Qin Shihuang seems to have been deliberately erased in history.

I searched through all the historical materials and found no clues.

According to some evidence found in archaeology.

It is reasonable to suspect that perhaps the queen of Qin Shihuang also came from the royal family of Chu.

Later, because of the destruction of Chu and the rebellion in Chu, she was abolished, and Qin Shihuang used his power to erase her existence in this world.

After abolishing the queen, Qin Shihuang no longer had a queen, and there were only some beauties such as wives, beauties, and young envoys in the harem.

As for Zhao Tuo, after the establishment of the Nanyue Kingdom, the history books also did not record the name of his queen (queen), and he didn't even know if he was a queen.

The same is true of Zhao Hu afterwards.

Not to mention the queen, even the other women in the harem are not recorded in the historical records.

It can be suspected that maybe the old Zhao family, like Qin Shihuang, did not set up a queen.

Because of Zhao Tuo and Ji Baiyue, the harem accommodated a large number of Baiyue tribal women in order to bring Baiyue under the rule.

So who among them will be established as the queen is a matter that will cause injustice within the Baiyue tribe.

It may even rise to serious political friction.

So the best way to deal with it is actually not to register as a queen.

However, the old Zhao family has not always been without a queen.

Later, Zhao Yingqi had a queen, the HD woman he fell in love with when he was a proton in Chang'an.

After returning to China to inherit the throne, he wrote a letter to Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, requesting that Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty decree to confer the title of Queen, and he claimed to be Queen in South Vietnam.

Later, she became the queen mother, and became the trigger for the destruction of the Nanyue Kingdom.

Of course, it was also because she did such a sensational thing that she was able to leave her name in history.

However, this alone cannot prove that Zhao Hu has no queen.

Maybe it's just that his queen didn't do anything and was unknown, so she wasn't recorded in the historical records.

After all, not all the historical records written by Tai Shigong are included in every detail.

He only picks important things, or records of things that have an impact on the country.

However, the truly overwhelming evidence is the word "Xi" on Madam You's seal!

Xi, this character was only used by emperors and empresses in the regulations of the Han Dynasty.

The emperor's seal is called the emperor's seal.

The queen's seal is called the queen's seal.

Only these two, as well as the empress who has been promoted to be the empress dowager, are eligible to use the "Xi".

The rest of the people, whether they are princes, kings or princes, can't use "Xi" at all!
If Zhao Hu had a queen.

No matter how much he dotes on this Mrs. You, it is impossible for him to give her a "seal"!
This is a serious presumption, and does not take the queen seriously at all!

This is an act of pampering concubines and destroying wives!
The Chinese people who have been influenced by the rituals of Zhou cannot accept this kind of behavior.

It violated etiquette, spoiled concubines and killed wives.

Not to mention the queen herself, even the ministers of the country absolutely cannot accept this kind of thing!
Unless, Zhao Hu has no queen, and the post is vacant.

In this case, it is acceptable for him to give Mrs. You the "Xi".

It means that Mrs. You took the place of the empress and helped her lead the harem.

Although she does not have the name of a queen, she enjoys the status of a queen.

This kind of behavior is still within the acceptable range.

But even if this right lady enjoys the treatment of a queen, she can use Xi to command the harem and manage Zhao Hu's inner court.

But her identity is still a wife after all, not a serious queen.

So after Zhao Hu passed away, even if he acted like a queen, he still had to die for Zhao Hu according to his status as "Madam"!
Including her, a total of four wives were buried together.

They did not leave the slightest record in the history, but after more than 2000 years after their death, they finally saw the light of day again.

It can be regarded as leaving some traces of being in this world.

With some emotion, Chen Han groped around the place where Mrs. You was buried, trying to find some more items that could reveal her identity.

Not to mention, I really found him.

Not far from the location of the "Your Madam Seal", Chen Han found four more seals.

Among them is an ivory seal, a turquoise seal, a jade seal, and a belt jade seal.

The appearance of the jade seal once again proves that this Mrs. You should be the No. 1 in Zhao Hu's harem, and the jade seal is used.

However, among these seals, except for the ivory seal, the rest are all seals without characters.

On the ivory seal, the word "Zhao Lan" is engraved.

"Zhao Lan?"

Chen Han muttered in his heart.

Same surname?
Out of ethical and physiological considerations, from the beginning of the early Western Zhou Dynasty, the Zhou Dynasty practiced extramarital marriage, prohibiting marriages between people with the same surname.

At that time, because the surname and family name were separated, even though the two people seemed to have different surnames, they could not be married if they traced back to the same surname.

This can be seen from the marriages of the princes in the Western Zhou Dynasty.

Basically, among the vassal states with the surname Ji, they will not marry each other, but only with foreign surnames.

The Qin clan would not marry the Jin clan.

Qin State was able to marry Chu State for generations, partly because the two families had the surname of Ying and the surname of Mi, which were two branches with different surnames.

Although it is said that by the Western Han Dynasty, the surnames had merged.

But in the eyes of the upper-class nobles, and those from the Qin Kingdom like Nanyue, the traditional custom of not marrying with the same surname should still be observed.

This is much better than those nobles in Europe who were still intermarrying within the family every day in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries.

This is also why although there are a lot of dandyism among nobles in China, there are very few idiots, genetic defects, and physical disabilities.

From 3000 years ago, the ancient Chinese knew that people with the same surname cannot marry.

"Zuo Zhuan Xi Gong 23 Years": "Men and women have the same surname, so they are not born in the same family."

If men and women marry with the same surname, their offspring will not prosper.

"Mandarin · Jinyu IV": "The same surname does not marry, and evil does not reproduce."

The ancients in the Spring and Autumn Period already knew clearly that intermarriage with the same surname would affect the reproduction of the clan and the quality of the offspring!

In the early Western Han Dynasty, Nanyue Kingdom.

Zhao Hu from the old Zhao family married Zhao Lan, who also had the same surname as Zhao, as his wife and concubine?
(End of this chapter)