On The Culture Of Marriage In The Tang And The Five

DunHuang documents were found in 1900 that provide the new data for study of scholars. And many problems that were uncertain or dispute have were explained base on it. The politics, economics and culture of DunHuang region became hot spots during scholars. Based on the research of previous scholars, the article discusses marriage-age, FangQishu and the phenomenon of many-wives during marriage culture in DunHuang , using the DunHuang documents as main materials. Although the marriage-age in DunHuang had been textual researched by some scholars, the article shows that marriage-age in DunHuang during prophase of Tang dynasty were in accordance with legal marriage-ages, through looking up for more materials and precise statistics. The article also shows that the marriage-age during GuiYijun era were larger than legal marriage-age, and also analysed the causes. FangQishu is the general name of divorce letter in DunHuang. The divorce phenomenon in DunHuang, divorce type and marriage amenity are showed through its unscrambling in ways of seeing a big world from a small hole. And it is contacted with marriage culture during the process of unscrambling, hoping that people would have more clear cognition of it. The many-wives system is a special phenomenon in DunHuang. The article considers that the causes of many-wives system concluded maladjustment of the proportion of male and female, the opportunity the war had brought for soldier, and the needs of multiplying children. This article also demonstrates that taking the influences of low concubine as a cause of many-wives system isn' t very reasonable.