| The marriage system is a kind of social system that regularizes men and women two sexual behaviors and family relation, it affects everybody in the society. It is situated on the surface of the society life, and is a social indicator of the social change. Therefore, the problem of marriage system becomes one of the important projects within social history researches. This text gives its focus on the great change of Hebei Province's marriage and family in the reform of marriage system in 1950-1956, it comprises foreword and 5 chapters.The foreword primarily introduces the meaning of this project, scholarship history, the theories and methods of research, the reasons of the choosing Hebei Province, and the data.Chapter 1, it primarily introduces the background before the reform of the marriage system. Hebei Province was located in the center district of the feudal king's dynasty for a long period, and suffers the influence of traditional ethics thought deeply. Before the reform of the marriage system from 1950 to 1956, there were primarily 3 kinds of marriage systems in Hebei Province. The first, the traditional marriage system, it has a few features: namely mercenary marriage and marriage upon arbitrary decision by a third party, unequal of man and woman, ignore the son and daughter' benefits. It remained predominant position in the whole province. The second, the bourgeois improved marriage system, formally the equality of man and women, and marriage freedom, but in practice it reserved a great quantity of feudalism remains. The third, the new democratic marriage system, it really realizes the sexual equality and marriage freedom. However, these marriage systems were primarily used in the different area. The traditional marriage system occupied the absolute predominant position in the whole province, and the bourgeois improved marriage system was limited in the social upper level in town and the capitalism economy developed area, the new democratic marriage system was practiced in the liberation area. Because there were mostly the old liberation area of revolution, many awakened people and peaceably situation in Hebei Province, when the land reform had been completed in 1948, the marriage and family dispute flowed out, and there were a lot of the cases of women commit suicide and be killed. The troubles of the marriage and family became a serious social problem that obstructed seriously the stability of society and theeconomy's development, so 1t was urgent very much to reform the old marriage system.Chapter 2, it introduces the content of the new marriage system and the reform process of Hebei Province's marriage system. When the People's Republic of China was established in October 1949, the Chinese society came into a period of transition in which the old order was demolished and the new order was set up. The marriage law of the People's Republic of China came into force upon promulgation on the first of may 1950, it indicated the establishing of the new democratic marriage system, and provided the law basis and target for the reform of the marriage system. The traditional marriage system had been reformed extensively and deeply by the publicity of the marriage law in Hebei Province. In 1956 the feudal marriage system was destroyed, and the new democratic marriage system was established by means of the study and publicity of the marriage law, the month of carrying through the marriage law and usually carry through the marriage law.Chapter 3 and 4, it primarily analyzes how the common people was affected by the reform of the marriage system, and studied what took place in the people's marriage and family life. Such as, on the social idea, the feudal idea, which the women is lowly and the man is respected, " the three obedience and the four virtues" etc, was gradually collapsed. The modern idea, which the right of men and women is equal, marriage freedom, etc, was gradually set up. Women had the right to take part in freely every kind of social activity. The marriage purpose that was for th...
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