"妻Wife, qī," , the woman and the husband together also. Father Ding Fang Earthenware , holding a woman's hair in his hand, means to snatch a marriage. The character reflects the early practice of bride-snatching. The word 昏"marriage" is used to capture a woman to get married, of course, only in the dark, so the right side of the word "marriage" from the word "faint", "faint" from the day from the s, for the meaning of the sun set. The dark to snatch the woman, make it their "wife", you need to "cave". Ancient people once lived in the wild, in a cave, which is the origin of the "cave". Now girls get married, some places still retain the custom of the mother crying marriage, today the mother crying marriage is just pretend, while in ancient times can be real crying, because the daughter raised for years was snatched away!