关于买卖婚姻的记载,最早见于《礼记·曲记》中的“非受币不高不亲”。在中国古代,这种买卖婚姻其实是合理合法的,历代的旧制度都把收受聘财作为订婚的条件。古巴比伦王国的《汉谟拉比法典》规定男方必须向岳父交纳未婚妻的买身费和聘礼, The record of the sale of marriage, the earliest found in “Book of Rites song” in the “non-currency not high not pro.” In ancient China, such sale and purchase of marriage was in fact fair and lawful, and the old system in each dynasty regarded the acceptance of hire money as the condition for engagement. The “Hammurabi Code” of the Kingdom of Babylon prescribes that the man must pay the father-in-law his fiancée’s cost of buying and bridewealth,