Although you may see some embarrassing historical facts and the unrestrained enthusiasm of the ancients, we definitely have a driver's license to ensure the safety of passengers and ensure that we will not race!

If you are ready, then our journey officially begins! Before leaving, the driver would like to introduce the sexual and cultural concepts of ancient people in China. As we all know, when studying a problem, we must first find out why it exists. When this doubt is solved, the problem is often solved. If we want to know how the ancients used contraception, we should first ask a question, what is the demand of the ancients for active contraception?

Huaxia civilization is a Confucian civilization. For thousands of years, most of the time, for the reasons of construction, production and stable rule, officials advocated having more children, more happiness and more children. Ancient women were proud of giving birth to male labor. If they don't give birth to boys, there are many examples of giving birth to girls until they give birth to boys.

For the backward farming society, the new labor force is the foundation to support the society. We have all heard of "Guanyin", but we have never heard of a fairy who avoids giving birth. It is hard to imagine that ancient people would take contraceptive measures.

However, the contraceptive behavior of the ancients did exist in history, and the relevant "prescription" has been mentioned in Shan Hai Jing: "There is grass, its leaves are like flowers, its source is like platycodon grandiflorum, and its name is delicious, making people childless", which shows that contraceptive behavior has a long history. In order to study the motivation of this behavior, we should start with the cognition of "sex" in ancient society.

Although in the public's mind, ancient scholars would be ascetic when they talked about "sex", if everyone is like this, then a society where sex has been suppressed in mainstream culture for too long will definitely lead to other problems and lead to the unhealthy development of the whole society. Therefore, in fact, in ancient times, people who mastered the right to speak in society were not only "romantic", but even romantic in the scientific sense. They showed their attitude.

As early as the Qin and Han Dynasties, there were relatively complete monographs on sexology, such as Ten Questions, A Talk on the Right Way in the World and Harmony of Yin and Yang, which were three bamboo slips unearthed in Mawangdui. In the early days, it was called the secret of "house art" and "keeping in good health", but according to the series of documentaries of "Grand View of Ancient Sexual Culture in China", the word "Yin and Yang" was actually a simplified summary of ancient sexual culture in China during the Qin and Han Dynasties.

The bamboo slips "Ten Questions" unearthed from Mawangdui No.3 Han Tomb have expounded the sexual concept of "harmony between yin and yang" in ancient China, in which men and women are encouraged to maintain a healthy "exercise" frequency and reach a state of resonance with nature, which is conducive to fertility. At the same time, it is also mentioned that it is not appropriate to take too many health care measures, such as taking a bath afterwards. It is indeed a medical guide to people's sexual life.

Among them, one point is worth noting. "Ten Questions" mentioned "not conducive to reproduction", which means that men should not have sex before they are mature, which will damage their health, from which we can see the scientific thought of the ancients against early marriage and early childbearing. In the ancient society where early marriage and early childbearing were common, this thought itself was a kind of birth control thought.

At this time, passengers will inevitably ask, "Yin and Yang" is so profound, how to understand it? Here, I want to introduce the younger brother of a famous writer, Mr. Bai Juyi, Xiangshan laity! Yes, if you don't know Bai Xingjian's name, you must be a fake old driver.

Like his brother, Bai Xingjian has a romantic literary style. He once wrote the famous Biography of Li Wa, which was constantly adapted and recreated by later generations. However, what we want to talk about is his other masterpiece, Yin and Yang's Great Music Fu, which is known as "the first wonder in the ages".

Gao Luopei, Counsellor of the Dutch Embassy, once praised this article as "a good example of life in the Tang Dynasty". When you hear this compliment, do you think it is a serious poem? However, if you find that Mr. Gao Luopei, an expert in China, has written not only Sherlock Holmes in China, that is, the series of Di Gong cases in Tang Dynasty, but also the indoor examinations in ancient China, you may laugh like a driver.

Gao Luopei obviously found this strange article when he was looking for information. When Bai Xingjian was writing, it coincided with his brother's launching the New Yuefu Movement, and he preached a simple, fresh, concise and powerful style of writing. Therefore, when he was writing, he used a lot of popular slang and idioms at that time, which made the whole article very popular and easy to understand. It was called autonomous driving, and novice drivers could easily get on the road.

This wonderful article was found in Mingshashan Grottoes in Dunhuang County, Gansu Province. It has become a rare work by ancient China literati to describe men and women in a serious literary style. Its theme is very healthy: "It aims to tell people about their relationship, their couple, their families and prolong their lives."

This paper has a general preface, which first occupies the theoretical high point, expounds the practical significance of studying the problem of * * * from the perspective of Confucian orthodoxy, and explains the importance of healthy and natural sex life to people. As Bai Juyi said, "Everyone is happy, hence the name' Da Le Fu'". A person is really better than happiness!

The content of this ode is also very detailed, from the description of boys and girls' love for spring to the joy of literati boudoir, which should satisfy the people who eat melons, but what makes drivers care about is the sexual concept conveyed in it: "The trip of husband and wife to Yin and Yang is the result of the group, and the handover of heaven and earth, the handover of men and women, and the smoothness of Yin and Yang are natural endings." 」

Translated into vernacular Chinese, we can understand that sexual happiness is naturally brought, and the universe has been operating very subtly. Sex between men and women can make the sun and the moon rotate as usual and keep balance naturally, that is, the way of yin and yang.

By briefly introducing China's related works in ancient times, I believe that witty passengers have understood the basic concept of the ancients: within the scope of Confucian orthodoxy, sexual intercourse between men and women is not shameful, but natural and beautiful, which is necessary for human life, and at the same time advocates reproduction.

Under such circumstances, we can't help thinking that if the ancients used birth control and contraception, it was mostly because the way of sexual behavior violated their basic sexual concept.

* This article is taken from "The ancients used to live like this at 2: 40: A Cold Knowledge of China History".

Brief introduction of the author

The ancients were very fashionable.

The official editing team of ancient books series, with serious but light brushwork, popularizes ancient history, poetry, life, celebrities and other aspects of knowledge to readers, so that readers can better contact and understand history.

He is the author of Hip Hop in Tang Dynasty, Handsome Man in Wei and Jin Dynasties, China on the Tip of the Tongue, Official History of Wulin, Tea Party in Song Dynasty, Anecdotes in Ancient Times and Being a Detective in Ancient Times.