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As I said yesterday, I'm going to take a day off today to spend the afternoon with my family~

I just got home, and I finally have time to write.

Taking advantage of today's day off, I'd like to talk to you about the marriage concept in the Edo period.

In ancient Japan, like ancient China, there was no such thing as three wives and four concubines, only "one husband, one wife and multiple concubines".

If you have that ability, you can have as many concubines as you want, but you can only have one wife.

Unlike ancient China, ancient Japan had a very unique sexual culture.

Simply put, the concept of chastity in ancient Japan was very twisted.

On the one hand, the upper class paid great attention to chastity.

But on the other hand, the middle and lower classes were very open and did not pay much attention to chastity.

In some rural areas during the Edo period, there was even a magical ritual activity.

Simply put, all the people in the village squeezed into the same room and "carnivaled" until dawn.

The waitresses in the restaurants in Shiromachi (either the rice-mori women or the most ordinary waitresses) often "sell their bodies" as a side job, and when it's late at night, they are taken to sleep by some rich man in the restaurant.

This shows that the lower and middle classes in the Edo period were not so rigid and restrained in that aspect.

In fact, this is also reflected in this book.

Sanako and Kinoshita Mai are both upper-class women with higher education, so even if they are in a relationship with Aoto, they have not crossed the last line with Aoto.

On the other hand, Souji is not like this.

Souji is from a legitimate lower-level samurai family, so she doesn't have so many ideological burdens.

After confirming the relationship with Aoto, she immediately became happy~happy~happy~ with Aoto.

In the late shogunate, there was a famous saying: "There is no god below the navel of a man."

In simple terms, it means "all men are big perverts."

All well-known figures have a bunch of women.

For example, Aoto's good friend Katsurintaro has a lot of concubines, and he always takes a few of them with him whenever he goes on a long trip.

This phenomenon was very normal in the Edo period.

It was abnormal in the Edo period for a man of high status to not get married or to marry only one or two women.

Therefore, it was not difficult for Aoto to marry Sanako, Kinoshita Mai, and Soji. It could even be said to be very simple.

In fact, it was vaguely mentioned in the previous article that Sanako and the others did not mind Aoto having a harem at all.

Sanako did not mind Aoto marrying Kinoshita Mai and Soji after marrying her.

The same was true for the other two women.

Because in their worldview, it was normal for a man like Aoto to have a harem, and there was nothing to criticize.

They might have some doubts in their hearts, but they would not show their dissatisfaction on the surface - otherwise, they would be labeled as "jealous".

It's still the old saying - don't apply modern thinking to ancient times, especially in foreign ancient times.

If you traveled into this book and said to Sanako and the others, "Your thoughts need to be awakened! You need to become independent women! Allowing Qing Deng to have a harem is too degrading to yourself!" or something like that, they would definitely think you were crazy.

If Qing Deng only married one woman, what would happen if the entire family died out?

No heirs - whether in ancient China or ancient Japan, this is a very terrible thing.

This was even more so in the Edo period.

Once a family died out, no matter if you were from the upper class or the lower class, your family would be wiped out.

The reason why Qing Deng has not been able to marry Sanako and the others until now is purely because he made it difficult for himself and insisted on doing something like "You are all my legal wives."

Sanako and the others can accept a harem, but "three legal wives" is still too explosive in their eyes.

In their cognition, there can only be one legal wife.

When the three of them can bypass this bend in their thinking, Qing Deng will be able to form a "big family" as he wishes~~