In ancient times, maids were the owner's personal belongings, so the dowry maids could be resold like goods, and the dowry maids were considered a type of dowry items for the woman and were also her private property. .

So in ancient times, the dowry girls were trained by the hostess as their confidants, because their life and death contract was in the hands of the hostess. When necessary, the hostess will promote their dowry girl to the first-in-law girl. In other words, the ancient dowry girl was actually a kind of help given by the ancient women's family when they got married, a kind of private property that helped them to establish a foothold in the husband's family.

For example, if the hostess is unable to give birth to a child, then she will let her dowry girl become the girl of the first-in-law wife. In this case, she will let her first-in-law girl give birth to a child and then adopt it. , thereby consolidating her status as the head wife. But women in ancient times generally would not let the girl who was given as a dowry serve as the bride-in-law, because if the girl in ancient times became the bride-in-law, she would lose the favor of the hostess, which would be particularly detrimental to the hostess. Yes, so in ancient times, Director Yu and others rarely promoted dowry girls as roommates. Most of the time, they trained dowry girls as confidants.

Because even if they buy the girl later, they will not specially train them as confidants, because the contract of sale is not in their hands, and the time they stay is not that long, so they rarely treat the girl behind There are also girls who are bought as confidants and raised as confidants, but there are fewer of them, because the time they spend together is not as long as that of the dowry girl.