The Research About Marriage Liberazation During The May Fourth Times

Marriage is an important part in the mankind life, it is one of main way that we depend on to exist and multiply . multiplicity and continuity of mankind is the inexitable requirement of society . therefore study of marriage is a perpetual subject for scholer who is learning in the field of sociology, folklore and anthropology. The conception and behavior about marriage reflect the level of the civilization and historical trait. Marriage relation of every era is a special angel to comprehend the whole society, which also reflects the political relations, financial conditions and social customs. The thesis has drawn up the idea of marriage liberty of the May 4th period to comb, to expect construct modern marriage ethic better, and promote the realization of the harmonious society. The freedom of marriage is a social category concept inevitably unceasingly renews the change along with society's development. Because the people to the freedom different understanding,the freedom of marriage also are unfolding the social localization and the nature localization different face. Among them,the society intervenes lies in exercises freely does not have to encroach upon the other people does not have to harm the public interest; individual wish stresses by the heart sends does not intervene. Two kinds of contradictions you disappear I to rise mutually diverts luckily, the human society is developing, the person and the society all are progressing. Freedom of marriage in internal contradictions and exterior in contradictory mutual function spiral rise, is manifesting in the marriage system the most important value progress and the return.Since modern age, with the entrance of China been opened and the western learning's advancing gradually to the east, traditional ethic suffered the huge impact. The May fourth period was the most outstanding. At this time, the advanced intellectuals held high the great banner of democracy and science, and the fierce criticized to the value system of the traditional ethic. As the foundation of the traditional ethic, the family ethic was first hit naturally. The thinkers launched the fierce attack to the traditional marriage ethic and proposed some marriage ethics thoughts that have the modern significance.The idea of marriage liberty in the May 4th Movement accepts the marriage idea of the late Qing Dynasty, and it has tremendous function to the Chinese modem marriage liberation. The idea of marriage liberty promotes people to form the fight idea of marriage and love in theory and build up new type of family basing on love in practice. Because in the period of the old marriage idea connecting to the new, this kind of marriage idea will be complex 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. After the Opium War, with the development of capitalist economy of the Chinese society, the natural economy was destroyed, the economic foundation for existence of the traditional marriage ethic began to waver. Meanwhile, saving the national crises became the theme of this period. Under such background, the thinkers begin to introspect and criticize traditional culture. On the basis of absorbing forefathers' thought achievement and western advanced culture, the marriage ethic of the May Fourth period was take shape. The equality view between male and female which came into being in the late Ming Dynasty and the early Qing Dynasty and the capitalism marriage view provide ideaistic condition. The development of the modern capitalism economy provides the economic foundation for it. The second part introduces the contents of the idea of marriage liberty completely, which including to be in love freedom and get married freely, divorce freely and remarry freely. The third part discusses the rationality in the changing of the marriage idea and the limitation in the idea of marriage liberty. The part has appraised on the marriage ethic of the May 4th period objectively. As the marriage ethic that formed in the transformation from modern age to contemporary age, it has affirmed fully the basic function of the love in the marriage, and has promoted the enlighten of the modern marriage ethic; it has emphasized the independence and freedom of women's personality, and has advanced the process of people's liberation; Meanwhile, it has criticized the family standard, and it is free and liberating to publicize the individual character. There are all have important function for us to construct the contemporary marriage ethic. However, they have the limitation with history of the marriage ethics in the May Fourth period, such as the extremeness of the ideas and the limitation of the ideas' influenced, etc. The fourth part analyses the positive function of the marriage liberty and the problem which appears in the process. Taking LuXun's marriage as a example, it illuminates the complications and hardships from the theory to the practice in the people's daily life.