ABSTRACT
In Tung-chia-chuang https://s3-euw1-ap-pe-df-pch-content-public-p.s3.eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/9781315293134/c866fb90-eb94-4746-9f2f-85d4c9f8507f/content/fig853_B.tif" xmlns:xlink="https://www.w3.org/1999/xlink"/> there was a tenant farmer named Ting Chin https://s3-euw1-ap-pe-df-pch-content-public-p.s3.eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/9781315293134/c866fb90-eb94-4746-9f2f-85d4c9f8507f/content/fig854_B.tif" xmlns:xlink="https://www.w3.org/1999/xlink"/> . He had a son, Erh-niu https://s3-euw1-ap-pe-df-pch-content-public-p.s3.eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/9781315293134/c866fb90-eb94-4746-9f2f-85d4c9f8507f/content/fig855_B.tif" xmlns:xlink="https://www.w3.org/1999/xlink"/> , and a daughter whose husband, Ts'ao Ning https://s3-euw1-ap-pe-df-pch-content-public-p.s3.eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/9781315293134/c866fb90-eb94-4746-9f2f-85d4c9f8507f/content/fig856_B.tif" xmlns:xlink="https://www.w3.org/1999/xlink"/> , had come to live with them. They all worked together and were delighted with the arrangement. Erh-niu's wife bore a son who was called San-pao https://s3-euw1-ap-pe-df-pch-content-public-p.s3.eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/9781315293134/c866fb90-eb94-4746-9f2f-85d4c9f8507f/content/fig857_B.tif" xmlns:xlink="https://www.w3.org/1999/xlink"/> . Erh-niu's sister then bore a daughter. Since they were living with the mother's family, the baby was sequentially named Ssu-pao https://s3-euw1-ap-pe-df-pch-content-public-p.s3.eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/9781315293134/c866fb90-eb94-4746-9f2f-85d4c9f8507f/content/fig858_B.tif" xmlns:xlink="https://www.w3.org/1999/xlink"/> . The two babies were born in the same month of the same year, only a few days apart. The two mothers passed the babies back and forth to be hugged and nursed. The children's marriage was decided upon while they were still in diapers. San-pao and Ssu-pao loved each other dearly. When they grew a little older, they never went anywhere alone. As a family of modest means, the parents were unaware of the rule that an unmarried couple should be separated. When the two played together they were always told, "This is your husband," and 'This is your wife." Although the children did not comprehend what was being said, hearing it made them accustomed to the idea. Beginning at the age of seven or eight, they were both beginning to understand things, but they both still slept with their grandmother and neither avoided the other.
