A Study On Mothers' Family Life In The Tang Dynasty

There are a lot of date in the epitaph of the tang dynasty, the epitaph about women also has considerable weight, the epitaph unearthed it as the first-hand material, relatively primitive, contains a lot of valuable information, especially it has a lot of information about women in the tang dynasty.So this article is based on the epitaph materials, the epitaph will be classified according to the role about mother,to explore their basic living conditions and the responsibilities.It can show the standard roles about mother and points out the disadvantages of the traditional gender system, so as to promote the progress of modern society.This article summarizes the epitaphs of mother.we can find that the biological mother epitaph paper has 519 square, the stepmother the epitaph of 141 square, DiMu paper has 65 square, adoptive mother epitaph 27 square,concubine mother paper has four parties. This paper is collected what can clearly identify the identity of the epitaph.From those,I analyzed the multiple roles of "mother" in the family life situations in Tang, such as while both "wife", "wife", "daughter" status of the mother. Both "wife" role of mothers, they should do something to play role about mother, they also presided over the housework,assisted her husband, live in the clan, in the private world of the family to give their all; both "wife" role of mothers also dedicated Jiugu honor, along with Jiugu Harmony Jiugu also always praise his wife; when they play role about "daughter",they taken parents’ home as careen, still maintains close ties to Ning care of their parents, given the various capitalists care. Women will also play a variety of roles after married, especially the "mother" is, but no matter what role do, the basic pattern men outside the women inside did not change the essence.Reading the epitaph records information, it is found that the widowed mother in mother’s epitaph occupies a large proportion, widowed mother as a special group, in the daily life independently bear all kinds of difficulties, they have to undertake funeral, presided over the possessions, tending of young, under such pressure. They seek spiritual support, choose religious; some bring young returned to the capitalists, for help; some insist on self-reliance, poor life. Men are restricted to women’s political rights while also giving them the power to handle family affairs. Epitaph, the Tang family, the mother in family affairs, the children have great power, regardless of whether the husband died, as the mother of "respect", presided over the housekeeping and household finances, discipline of children, child marriage on have great power. Although women as "mother", a certain status in both the family and the family of power, but actually male father still holds the initiative, the mother is father’s spokesperson, power in the family business can be said to is a "control power" and the "control power" is in "the power of the official" of the male permission is to be carried out, but this kind of power has played the important role.Although the mother has a lot of power, but the social status is still determined by the male, the value of the mother through his son, is reflected, and the factor is sealed ". Mother’s funeral form reflects the autonomy, such as single funeral, burial site of the capitalists; on the other hand also reflects the dependence on men, such as buried. This reveals the oppression of the male power society to women and the attachment to the male, as the mother of the honour, and no exception.