A Study On Marriage Relationship In The Upper Reaches Of The Northern Song Dynasty

The marital relationship was an important part of many social relations to the aristocratic families,and it played a very important role in the development and continuation of aristocratic families on the history of ancient China.These aristocratic families establishing contacts through their marriages, and formed a large and complex network of relationships, to pursuit political or economic interests, and promote the development of the family under the aegis of the network in this relationship.Although the military officers had been repressed by The Policy of Elevating the Civilian Official and Debasing the Military Officer in North Song Dynasty, but the families of generals continued to play important roles as special kind of political force. In order to seek the long-term development and continuation of the family, the families of generals usually use the political marriages under this political background. The political marriage was focusing on expanding the network of relationships, so as to achieve the more the object of its own interests. The marriage objects of the upper families of generals in Northern Song Dynasty mainly includes:the royalty, the other families of generals, the family of civil officials. Affected by ages ideas well as the political environment and other factors, the marriage relationship of the upper families of generals in Northern Song Dynasty had four characteristics:including political marriage, the family’s distinguished, marriage with the royalty and the family of civil officials. The marriage relationship of the upper families of generals between the royalty, the other families of generals and the families of civil officials not only formed a interests group connected closely, but also made the families of generals long-term existed and developed on the history of Northern Song Dynasty.