In ancient times, due to the different social division of labor, the status of men and women was unequal, which was usually "the male dominated the outside and the female dominated the inside". In other words, men are the real "pillars" in a family.
If the man in the family has an accident and dies unfortunately, then the family basically has no living security. Moreover, in ancient times, one of the main reasons for attaching importance to men's prosperity was to protect their family and property. If there are no men at home, it is common for orphans and widows to be bullied.
You can imagine how hard widows worked in those days. In this case, it is really wicked for anyone to bully others by kicking the widow's door again.
Second, dig graves.
The so-called "orphans" refer to those families that have no offspring. Therefore, as the name implies, "digging an orphan's grave" means digging the ancestral graves of families without descendants.
Ancestral graves and ancestral temples play an important role in any family. According to the superstition of the ancients, "digging ancestral graves" will destroy the feng shui of the whole family; According to traditional culture, this is destroying a family's spiritual belief.
In addition, carrying on the family line has been a top priority since ancient times. If a family has no successors and no descendants to continue the incense, it is a very poor thing in itself.
Therefore, it is logical that "digging orphan graves" is listed as one of the "four immoral things".
Third, eat moon milk.
"Eating confinement milk" refers to fighting for the baby's breast milk.
In some film and television dramas, you will see emperors and generals or large families specially invite a wet nurse for newborn children. This is because of the limitation of ancient life or other reasons, many women don't have enough breast milk. At that time, there was no such thing as milk powder, so they had to find a wet nurse to feed their children.
This situation is understandable. After all, it is what the wet nurse does with her own breast milk. But if it is in an ordinary family, not letting other people's children eat "moon milk" is equivalent to killing a small life in disguise.
Fourth, play blind and dumb.
No matter in ancient times or in modern times, "taking advantage of people's danger and robbing people while taking advantage of the fire" is despised by people. Therefore, "beating blind and cursing dumb" is also one of the four immoralities.
When there is a conflict between two people, the blind can neither dodge nor fight back, and almost become a fish on the chopping board-being slaughtered; So is the mute. They can't talk. No matter how much you scold them, they can only be anxious, sad and angry, but they can't explain or argue with you.