Song Literati The Role Of Women In The Family Economic Operators

The modern people arbitrarily believed that, the woman in Song Confucians family has no rights of audience and eminent domain in family economy. However, the author makes a different conclusion based on history materials such as literary writings, bijixiaoshuo, stone tablets and stone carvings in Song dynasty, etc. Firstly, on the one hand, Song Confucians don't hope woman excessively participate in decision-making on family economy, but on the other hand they need the woman's assistance. As this kind of contradictory psychology of Song Confucians, it leaves behind the certain space in family economy to the woman. Secondly, in real life, the woman has considerable private property, and legally it is recorded in husband's name, but in the social custom, the woman has the actual right of use on private property, for example, they can decide how to expend it and the investment direction. Through controlling private property, the woman in the Song Confucians family also correspondingly has a certain right of audience in the family economic activity, and some of them even can participate in certain social activities. The majority of the woman in Song Confucians family is actually managing the family industry, in some cases even becomes the indispensable bearing, based on which big family economy can run.