The Idea Of Marriage Liberty In The Early Republic Of China

The idea of marriage liberty in the early Republic of China accepts the marriage idea ofthe late Qing Dynasty, and it has tremendous function to the Chinese modern marriageliberation .The idea of marriage liberty promotes people to form the right idea of marriageand love in theory and build up new type of family basing on love in practice.Because in theperiod of the old marriage idea connecting to the new ,this kind of marriage ieda will becomplex in the process of practice.The text is divided into four parts : The first part introduces the historical condition of the idea of marriage liberty .Theequality view between male and female which came into being in the late Ming Dynasty andthe early Qing Dynasty and the capitalism marriage view provide ideaistic condition .Thedevelopment of the modern capitalism economy provides the economic foundation for it.The second part introduces the contents of the idea of marriage liberty completely,whichincluding to be in love freedom and get married freely, divorce freely and remarry freely.The third part discusses the conflict in the changeing of the marriage idea and theextreme in the idea of marriage liberty.It includes the conflict between the progressive and thestandpatter and the debate about the idiographic problem within the progressive.The extremeis about the celibate idea and the abolishing of the marriage system.The fourth part analyses the positive function of the marriage liberty and the problemwhich appears in the process.Taking LuXun's marriage as a example, it illuminates thecomplications and hardships from the theory to the practice in the people's daily life.