"Family planning" is not only to make people have fewer children, but also to make people have more children. In ancient times, "family planning" basically meant having more children. For example, when crossing, a boy was born and two pots of good wine and a dog were rewarded. Give birth to a girl and reward two pots of good wine and a pig; If they are twins, arrange a free nanny; If it's triplets, arrange a free wet nurse.

First, the ancient "family planning" was to have more children across borders. In order to encourage childbearing and force early marriage, it is clearly stipulated that "a strong man does not take an old woman, an old man does not marry a strong wife, a woman does not marry at the age of 17, her parents are guilty, and her husband does not marry at the age of 30, and her parents are guilty".

During the Spring and Autumn Period, the State of Qi carried out the "family planning" policy of 20 years old for men and 0/5 years old for women, encouraging early marriage, and some dynasties even advanced the marriage age of women to 13 years old.

In the Tang Dynasty, encouraging childbearing was regarded as a basic national policy. Li Shimin was promulgated in the first year of Zhenguan, which clearly stipulated encouraging childbearing, mobilizing the rich to sponsor poor bachelors who can't afford to marry, and taking the quality of family planning and the number of widowed people as indicators to assess the performance of local leading cadres. The imperial edict to encourage Shu Ren to get married was promulgated in time, which clearly stipulated that fertility should be encouraged, the rich should be mobilized to sponsor poor bachelors who could not afford to marry, and the quality of family planning and the number of widows should be taken as the performance indicators of local leading cadres.

At the same time, the policy of "a man marries a widow, and a widow remarries" was advocated in the Tang Dynasty, which negated the old idea that a man marries a concubine disgracefully and a woman is "faithful all her life". From then on, the number of widows and bachelors will be reduced to achieve the goal of population growth.

Second, many children are blessed, and raising children to prevent old age. Propaganda slogans such as "Let boys and girls go with the flow, have fewer healthy children and live a happy life" and "One child for a couple" make people abide by family planning.

In ancient times, propaganda slogans such as "many children are blessed, raising children to prevent old age" and "three unfilial children are older" encouraged people to have more children, which also led to the spread of the idea of "patriarchal".

Finally, family planning is made in consideration of the future development of the country. If you want a child, you should have it. If you don't want to have children, don't force it. You should decide according to your own strength.