Research On Infanticide During Song Dynasty

Infanticide phenomenon in China feudal society long-standing, especially when chaos caused by war or natural disaster was fiercer, causes many innocent babies just to arrive this world then to lose the fresh right.The abandoned baby question becomes one kind of custom in Song Dynasty, and this kind of vulgar customs in the social relative stability, the economical quite developed southeast area more are in vogue.The paper first part "Abandoned baby Generalization" in limits the abandoned baby, kills the infant and in the drowning of new-born babies foundation, has the abandoned baby phenomenon to the history in to make the simple elaboration.The second part which creates to the Song Dynasty society analyzes from the Song Dynasty abandoned baby phenomenon characteristic as well as the influence, elaborated the Song Dynasty abandoned baby question is not the isolated population phenomenon, but is quite complex, the influence profound society question.The third part the generation of abandoned baby phenomenon has in the reason foundation before the reference, analyzes several kind of reasons which the Song Dynasty society abandoned baby question produces, summarizes the feudal exploitation seriously causes the people abandoned baby's basic reason.The fourth part elaborated the Song Dynasty government and the people renovates the abandoned baby question the countermeasure, forbids abandoned baby's law including the government promulgation, remits the poll tax, the execution prenatal care command, sets at the kind young bureau, sets up the adopted son law, the reward adoption behavior; Also includes the folk public opinion condemnation prohibition abandoned baby, submits a written statement to the request rescue, the literary intelligentsia helps to marry off a daughter, to suppose bears children the warehouse, the fields purchased by clan contributions for relief of poor clan members in former times and so on.And makes the simple appraisal to these action result.This part is the entire paper key point.The fifth part Confucianist's kind political thought, the Buddha retributive justice said as well as the Song Dynasty folk good deeds done in secret idea and the Song Dynasty abandoned baby question relates, discusses Song Ren the birth idea.Finally the part "Conclusion", macroscopically makes the whole inspection to the Song Dynasty infanticide, the analysis solves this question outlet.Passes the view China ancient history, the infanticide question always exists, regardless of in Song before is the Yuan bright Qing Dynasty and even the modern times, even if is the present, abandoned baby this ugly phenomenon still sometimes occurred around us.May definitely say that, the abandoned baby question is unable in the feudal society to eradicate, until only can along with the social productive forces enhancement, the humanity be able effective control own multiplication, this cruel behavior to be able to reduce gradually in the historical perpetual flow vanishes.