Monogamy was practiced in ancient times. A man has only one wife, but he can have several concubines. The emperor has only one wife, such as Li Shimin and Emperor Taizong, and his only wife is his grandson. Other concubines can only be concubines.
In ancient times, a man's first wife was a married wife, also known as the original wife. After his wife died, a man's first wife was a housewife, also called a second wife, a second wife, and a second wife.
Xu's family was born in a noble family. The father is Yan Xu. Yan Xu, born in Changsha, Hunan Province, was a scholar in the Northern Song Dynasty. When Yan Xu was in charge of Wuchang, Ouyang Xiu came to visit.
Ouyang Xiu, 22, experienced the pain of two failed imperial examinations. At that time, the imperial examination required writing articles on current affairs, that is, commenting on current affairs. Ouyang Xiu was good at poetry, but not at current affairs writing, so he fell into Sun Shan twice.
Yan Xu was one of the top writers at that time, and Ouyang Xiu came to visit him. Yan Xuzhuan, the History of Song Dynasty, recorded Ouyang Xiu's request for Yan Xu. The original text is:?
Ouyang Xiu began to see Yan, Yan loved his writing, called the door, and his wife was a woman.
Ouyang Xiu went to learn from his teacher, and Yan Xu cherished Ouyang Xiu's talent. He not only accepted him as an apprentice, but also betrothed his daughter to Ouyang Xiu. At that time, Xu was only 1 1 years old and could not marry Ouyang Xiu. Xu is only Ouyang Xiu's fiancee.
Xu took her future mother-in-law Zheng to Wuchang and showed filial piety to Zheng as a daughter-in-law. Ouyang Xiu lost his father at the age of 4, and his mother Zheng raised him with painstaking efforts. Zheng hasn't had a good life since he lost his husband. Xu's filial piety to Zheng satisfied Ouyang Xiu and Zheng.
Carefully teach Ouyang Xiu, and Xu is responsible for taking care of Ouyang Xiu and Zheng's life. Ouyang Xiu has been in Xu Fu for three years, and his writing style has improved rapidly. Ouyang Xiu, 24, once again embarked on the road of imperial examination. As a result,/kloc-0 was ranked first in Hui Yuan in 1925 and 14th in the imperial examination.
As soon as Ouyang Xiu mentioned the glory of to beno. 1, he ushered in the wedding ceremony. Ancient people got married early, and the marriageable age was 14 for girls. /kloc-At the age of 0/5, Xu married Ouyang Xiu and became his real wife.
After Xu got married, he gave birth to Ouyang Xiu's eldest son. Xu gave birth to a baby, which was not yet full moon. Xu died at the age of 16.
Although the marriage between Xu and Ouyang Xiu lasted only one year, the real wife status is unshakable. In his later years, Ouyang Xiu sent his mother Zheng back to his hometown Phoenix Mountain and buried him with his father Ouyang Guan. As the first wife of Ouyang Xiu, Xu moved with her mother-in-law Zheng and was buried in Ouyang Family Cemetery.
When Ouyang Xiu buried his mother and wife in his hometown, he left a thousand watches of Longgang, one of the three major mourning poems in China, and also set up a monument of the thousand watches of Longgang. Today's Longgang former monument is a national key cultural relics protection unit.
Yan Xu's kindness to Ouyang Xiu is as heavy as a mountain. After the death of Mrs Xu, Ouyang Xiu still treated Yan Xu as a son-in-law. Unfortunately, this pair of Weng Xu later turned against each other because of Fan Zhongyan.
Fan Zhongyan carried out the Qingli New Deal, Yan Xu was a conservative who opposed the reform, and Ouyang Xiu was an innovator who supported the reform. Yan Xu hoped that his son-in-law Ouyang Xiu would stand on his side and oppose Fan Zhongyan's political reform. Ouyang Xiu abandoned his family for justice and firmly supported Fan Zhongyan.
Yan Xu therefore denied his son-in-law, Ouyang Xiu, and would not associate with Ouyang Xiu until his death. Although Yan Xu denied that Ouyang Xiu was a son-in-law, the history of Song Dynasty praised the cultivation of Ouyang Xiu as a great contribution of Yan Xu.
After his death, Ouyang Xiu wrote a letter to Xu's brother-in-law, stating that he was not ungrateful, but supported Fan Zhongyan in upholding justice. The Xu clan forgave Ouyang Xiu and once again admitted that Ouyang Xiu was the son-in-law of the Xu clan. After Yan Xu's death, Ouyang Xiu had a good relationship with Xu.