Chapter 18 hit red

It is said that people in Maqiao used to avoid accepting virgins, and the night of the bridal chamber was called "bumping red", which was very unlucky.On the contrary, the woman who is pregnant before marriage and has a big belly can make everyone feel satisfied.Li Minggao, a folklorist of the Dong nationality in the Hunan Federation of Literary and Art Circles, told me that this is not surprising. In places and times where production levels are backward, people are the most important productive force, and childbearing is the most important duty of women, which is much more important than chastity.Men like to have a big belly when choosing a mate, which is a common phenomenon in many places in the south.It seems to be a reasonable explanation, and I have the right to record it for the exam.Related to this custom, men in Maqiao harbor hostility towards their firstborn, treating them as wild species of unknown origin, not their own flesh and blood. Then fast.This custom is called "Yidi", that is, killing the eldest son, and it has been a tacit practice in Maqiao for a long time.The mother couldn't bear it, and often wrapped the baby in a cotton-padded jacket before her husband did it, placed it on the side of the road, or put it in a basin to float down the water, entrusting the fate of the parent and child to the heavens, and this has become a common story .After the Communist Party came, this kind of barbaric behavior was banned, and the related talk was rarely heard.Whether some are still doing it secretly is unknown.When Wan Yu sang ballads such as "Ten Sending Sons by the Riverside", it was not difficult to understand that the singing touched the women's bitterness of the past, and they burst into tears.