“The Value of Marriage in Ancient China” Comments?
This is the story of a scholar, Liu Tingshi, of the Qi Prefecture (today’s Shandong Province) in China’s Northern Song Dynasty (960 – 1279 AD). After Liu passed the provincial level of the civil service examination, he was appointed as a mid-level government official in the Tong Prefecture, a rather distinguished achievement at the time. Su Dongpo (1037 – 1101 AD), one of the most famous Chinese literary giants in Chinese history, was the governor of the Tong Prefecture at the time. Su Dongpo thought highly of Liu Tingshi because of Liu’s character and gave him important assignments.
Before Liu Tingshi passed the provincial level of the civil service examination, he met a civilian lady in his town and proposed marriage to her. But the engagement was not official because Liu had not paid her parents the bridal price to make it official.
Later Liu Tingshi won the provincial level of the civil service examination…
http://www.clearwisdom.net/emh/articles/2007/7/17/87772.html
ancient people are more concerned about the value of giving lady a status,i mean it is to being fair to a girl too,rather than modern people where we might be able to accept living together before a proper procedure
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