What kind of countermeasures were there in ancient times to eliminate singles and promote fertility?

It is no secret that there are more men than women in China now, especially the proportion of young men and women of marriageable age is greatly unbalanced. In some rural areas, there are even bachelor villages, and many people are faced with the embarrassing situation of not getting married, which is influenced by the feudal thought of preferring sons to daughters. According to relevant data, the gap between men and women is at least 30 million, which means there are probably 30 million bachelors. Coupled with the popular trend of money worship, the high cost of marriage is hundreds of thousands of millions, which makes the "bachelor" and "quasi-bachelor" worse.

However, compared with modern times, China rarely heard of the saying that there were bachelors and leftover women in ancient times. Why? In fact, it is precisely because the government has used these four tricks that this problem has been completely solved.

First of all, specify marriage, or get married without marriage.

You have to marry whoever the government appoints you to marry, which is mainly a necessary measure taken in ancient times to stabilize border defense and stabilize new immigrant areas and reclamation areas. At this time, it is necessary to use the matchmaker. There are usually specialized official media. These people have great power to appoint a woman to marry a man. For example, in the Qing dynasty, many men were stationed in the frontier according to imperial decrees. In order to maintain stability, the official media usually set up agencies in this area to forcibly match women who are being sent around.

Secondly, if you don't get married, you will catch your parents.

In ancient times, forced marriage was mainly aimed at women, because women were often unwilling to get married. There are generally two ways for the government to enforce it: women do not get married when they reach marriageable age, and the government forces them to get married; If a woman reaches the age of 17, if she is not married, then the government will force you to get married. If she doesn't get married, her parents will be convicted, which will raise the marriage to the height of court law. Compared with the emergence of a large number of bachelors now, it is related to her mother-in-law's "picking her nose and eyes". If this were put into ancient society, such a mother-in-law would definitely go to jail.

Third, encourage widows to remarry and support bachelors to marry widows.

Under the rule of ancient feudal thought, women's moral shackles were very strict. For example, widows are not allowed to remarry or will be looked down upon, and men would rather not marry than consider marrying widows. But for the court, for the sake of social stability and economic development, widows are strongly encouraged to remarry, and bachelors marry widows.

Finally, restrict the rich and powerful people from concubinage.