The History of Marriage
by Song Chao
About This Novel
In the process of handling ethnic relations in Chinese dynasties, "harmony" has always been an important policy and measure that has attracted much attention and has been controversial. Although "harmony" began in the early Western Han Dynasty, its origin can be found in the political marriages of the Pre-Qin period. The peacemaking in the Wei, Jin, Southern and Northern Dynasties inherited the legacy of peacemaking in the Han Dynasty and started the climax of peacemaking in the Sui and Tang Dynasties. It was an important turning period in the development history of peacemaking in ancient China. During the Sui and Tang Dynasties, the most distinctive ones were those with Tibet and the Uighurs. It not only set the precedent for the Central Plains dynasty to use "true princesses" to make peace, but also expanded the scope of the marriage from the north and the Central Plains to the southwest for the first time. The Mongolian and Yuan Empire took "harmony" to the extreme in targeting different ethnic groups and political regimes, and eventually became the first central government established by an ethnic minority in Chinese history. The marriage between Manchu and Mongolia is not only the end of the history of marriage in ancient China, but also one of the most distinctive marriage paradigms, reflecting the distinctive characteristics of "Manchu and Mongolia as one". In the endless stream of history, Heqin has made important contributions to the integration and cohesion of the Chinese nation from a unique perspective.
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