"Huh?"
Conan was surprised:
"Don't they eat together?"
"Strictly speaking, they are employees hired by the Ogawa family. If you compare this place to a restaurant or hotel, would you let the waiters eat at the table with you?"
Having said that, Sakaki Makoto was also a little strange, especially the woman named Akutagawa Fuuna, who obviously had a good relationship with the old lady, and they were not in a relationship of guest and waiter. Logically, she was definitely qualified to eat at the table...
"Funa, you stay and eat with us."
At this moment, the old woman suddenly spoke. She invited Akutagawa Fuuna to have dinner at the same table with an expressionless face, and she was as serious as a sculpture inviting a crow to rest on her shoulder.
"yes."
Akutagawa Fuuna stopped, turned around and sat at the table. After her granddaughter brought dinner, she picked up her chopsticks and started eating.
“Tsk tsk tsk….”
Seeing this scene, Kidd smacked his lips and said:
"Don't you think the atmosphere between them is very subtle? Rather than being superiors and subordinates, it's more like master and servant. What kind of society is this? Why are they still doing this?"
"That's for a special reason."
Suddenly a voice was heard from behind. Everyone turned around and saw that Ogawa Chengzhi had come behind them at some point. Instead of running away to eat, he sat down next to them naturally.
After sitting down, Ogawa Chengzhi hesitated for a moment and said:
"Have you....heard of visiting wife marriage?"
"Visiting my wife for marriage?!"
In the brightly lit restaurant, Sakaki Makoto and others looked at Ogawa Seiji in shock, somewhat doubting their own ears.
"You heard it right, it's a wife-visiting marriage."
Ogawa Chengzhi smiled bitterly:
"My grandfather and Akutagawa Fuuna had a visiting wife marriage, but it's not completely that."
"What what? What is a visiting wife marriage?"
Sera Masumi, who has lived abroad for many years, had never heard of this term. Seeing that everyone seemed to know the meaning, he was immediately worried and asked anxiously:
“Can someone explain this to me?”
"Visiting wife marriage is a form of marriage in ancient Japan. It originated in the Kofun period, became popular in the Yamato period, and continued until the Heian period."
Mary Akai patiently explained to her daughter:
"During the period from Yamato to Heian, marriage between men and women was a rather strange phenomenon. Although married, men and women still lived with their mothers, brothers and sisters. If they wanted to have sex, the man would sneak into the woman's house at night and leave in the early morning of the next day, or stay for several days, then return to his own home and bear the living expenses of his wife and children. This is recorded in the Kojiki, Nihonshoki, and Manyoshu, and it developed from group marriage."
"oh...."
Shiliang Zhenchun nodded, not quite understanding:
"Won't there be any relationship problems if a couple lives separately? It sounds like they are just strangers..."
“There’s no difference between them and strangers.”
Miss Miyano took a small bite of the compressed biscuit, her eyebrows drooping:
"In a visiting marriage, the couple does not spend much time together, their actual relationship is relatively loose, and there is not much difference between their lives before and after marriage. Women are the main body of the marriage, have the right to choose their spouse and the right to name their children, and..."
Miss Miyano suddenly stopped talking halfway through her speech, as if she didn't want to continue.
"Huh? And what?"
Masumi Sera looked left and right, his eyes full of curiosity and he felt itchy.
"And both men and women can sleep with other people overnight."
Glancing at her, Sakaki Makoto said calmly:
"Have you never read The Tale of Genji? In it, the protagonist Genji visits some married women at night and has sex with them."
Sera Masumi was stunned for a moment and his face suddenly turned green.
She was wondering why Miss Miyano suddenly stopped talking halfway through her story, and why the content behind it was so... so...
It's unacceptable.
Can married couples have sex with other people at will?
Stop joking, what's the point of this kind of marriage?
Claiming sovereignty?
But others are dancing outside your house!
"I've already said that visiting marriage evolved from group marriage. Group marriage refers to a pseudo-marriage group consisting of a group of men and women who can live together freely. It is the first marriage system in human history that restricts relations between the sexes."
Akai Mary says:
"Engels mentioned in The Origin of the Family, Private Property and the State that under conditions of scarce material supplies and strong natural forces, tribal living was the only way for primitive people to survive. Group marriage could ensure the continuation of the tribe, and there was no question of right or wrong."
"But it was already the Yamato era!"
Sera Masamune shouted:
"Towns have already appeared. Even without the marriage of visiting wives, the tribe can still continue. What's the difference between a group of people mating at will and animals?"
"The difference is that both parties are free to choose their mating partners and cannot use coercion."
“........”
"In a patriarchal society, polygamy is allowed; in a matriarchal society, polyandry is allowed. There is nothing to worry about."
Sakaki Makoto shook his head:
"For now, it is still a patriarchal society, but what about a hundred or two hundred years from now?"
"In the final analysis, the reason for the emergence of patriarchal society is food. The vast majority of men are stronger than women, which is determined by their genetic structure. As the main acquirer of survival resources, it is not surprising that men have the final say."
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