On The Marriage Etiquette And Custom Of Zhou Dynasty From The Book Of Songs

The ritual poems of the Zhou Dynasty in "The Book of Songs" has always beentaken seriously by generations of scholars, and marriage rituals show us the specificstatus under certain conditions, form and etiquette as an important part of the ZhouDynasty. From a literary perspective,according to summarized the marriage customs,the orders of their occurrence in pre-marital, marriage, marriage the gift, and sketchedout the panoramic view of the marriage of people in social life of85poems about theZhou Dynasty marriage in "the Book of Songs ", this paper shows us the Zhoudynasty already had the basic framework of "6etiquette " marriage customs system,and have very detailed requirements in various stages of the marriage.Through allthese rituals, the author summed up with the time being, our ancestors had alreadyformed the Idea of God, Mate Choice, maternity concept of marriage custom concept.In addition to this, the author found that marriage without children was the mainreason for causing the wives abandoning and being cheated tragedy rather than simplyattributed to " old age and beauty fading". This discourse strives a true reflection ofthe prevailing social outlook, and the marriage customs.