Maids, also called maids, or handmaids, were at the bottom of feudal society. Most of them were born in poverty and were forced to sell to their owners' homes. Some of them were born in their master's home.
When the servant girl grows up, her fate will be different. There are basically three ways out: the first is to be accepted as a concubine by the male master; The second is to directly match a page with the same identity; The third is to resell and marry, and become a concubine of the man. Being accepted as a concubine can be said to be the best result. After all, people who can afford it are either rich or expensive, at least they will have food and clothing. For example, in A Dream of Red Mansions, the maid Xiren is Jia Baoyu's concubine. However, although upgraded to a concubine, she is still the servant girl of the host family. She is not only often beaten and scolded by her master, but also often envied and blamed by mistress. In addition, even when the maid wanted to be released at the age of 20, she had been in her master's house for many years, so it was normal to be sexually harassed and sexually assaulted by her master at that time.
"A Dream of Red Mansions" wrote "Jia Baoyu's first sexual happiness, granny Liu entered Guo Rongfu" for the sixth time. To put it bluntly, it was Jia Baoyu who tried it on his personal maid Xiren. It is specifically written in the book: xiren took advantage of the absence of the nurse's maid and quickly took out another Hanfu and changed it with Baoyu. Baoyu said with shame, "My dear sister, don't tell anyone.
Chapter 55 of The Story of Awakening Marriage also writes that Mr. Di wants to buy a whole kitchen, that is, a maid with certain cooking skills. Grandma Tong found a matchmaker to introduce others to resell, and felt that it met Mr. Di's requirements. When she was ready to try the maid's methods, Grandma Tong asked, "Have you ever received them at home?" "Too long," said the servant girl. Grandma Tong asked, "You didn't give birth to anything?" The maid said, "It's just a small matter. What it gave birth to! " It can be seen that it was normal for the man to take advantage of the servant girl at that time and was recognized by the parties and the society.
Suddenly I feel that between heaven and earth, the heart is heaven and the other is hell; Between things, one is confused and the other is awake; In life, one misses life and the other misses death; In love, you can miss the distance and the horizon.
In short, the relationship between the man and the servant girl has a long history, and the servant girl naturally regards herself as the man's "servant girl", so being a concubine has become their hope and ideal in life. However, after all, there are not many opportunities to be a concubine. Most maids have no choice when they grow to a certain age, either they marry a page or they are sold out to marry. What kind of hands they fall into, just like the fallen leaves blown by the autumn wind, falling with the wind. As for whether to fall into the brocade account or the dunghill, we have to leave it to fate.
Life is not all hardship, it has both comfort and joy; Just like the season we experience, spring comes after the severe winter, and sunny day comes after the snow;