Ming Dynasty Shanxi Section Xiaofu

This paper through the statistics and the analysis to Shanxi's chastity and filial woman woman community in Ming Dynasty, attempts to break the limitation of other studies which concentrates the attention the chastity behavior of woman and, from has both maintains moral integrity with the behavior to expands the domain of the woman studies and take a benefit to the woman's studies in the Ming Dynasty.The first part had confessed the paper's significance, and have profited from the predecessor research results, thus attempts to put the research on the solid foundation.This paper was divided into three chapters. The first section has carried on the whole inspection to the filial woman from historical, and the development prosedure. The filial woman's appearance is in the male power society, the treatment of women as inferiors idea long-term influence result, stems from the primitive society last stage to woman's chastity request, hereafter strengthens gradually, ends in the feudalism ruling class politics philosophy a part. In China ancient times in the long historical development process, each time had certain difference to the woman filial and chaste request's loose and tight degree, but for the whole, presented the short relaxation besides the Sui and Tang dynasties, as a whole presented tends the severization tendency gradually, achieves the crest to a Yuan and Ming Dynasty. The filial woman's conduct characteristic including two aspects of chastity and filial, the woman who is the chastity and can bend the completely filial piety after the husband died.The second section in carried on the data statistics to the Ming Dynasty Shanxi filial woman community . This part is to research the local chronicle record Ming Dynasty Shanxi filial woman's region distribution characteristic, the respective social stratum, the widow occupies the age structure, to be filial to the utmost the way, to guarantee situations and so on festival way, maintaining moral integrity age limit to carry on the quantification analysis. The result indicated that Ming Dynasty Shanxi filial woman are more in south than north .This was effected by local culture, the social economy developed degree and so on. The common social stratum woman are most, but is affected the feudal ethics and rites thought a deeper official and the Confucian scholar housewife also holds the suitable proportion; the woman mostly starts below 30 years old to maintain moral integrity, the maintaining moral integrity age limit accounts for the total number of people above 40 years more than half, this and government's testimonial conferred by the emperor to honor the deceased standard direct correlation.The filial woman is to the utmost the way to have many kinds, raises kisses, rears an orphan is most common form. And the filial woman guarantees the chastity to be diverse, many autonomy and so on violent behavior.The third section has analyzed the society's mutual influence of chastity and filial woman. The Shanxi filial woman's idea and the behavior are society's products in Ming Dynasty, Neo-Confucianism thought's strengthening, marriage system's vicissitude, the country to the chastity forbiddance and the initiative, the social culture and the atmosphere influence, beneficiary's support and the mold, woman's acceptance with the approval are material effect factors. Between these factor's mutual strengthening wove one for the women giant and the tenacious trap, was at the weak trend position the woman community to work loose its fetter with difficulty. The massive filial woman's existence serves the feudalism ruling class's benefit, it is advantageous to the paternal line social structure maintenance, is advantageous in the feudal society morality maturity, it also has certain positive sense to the social civilization's progress objectively. Meanwhile, in the society appears violates the chastity idea and behavior are also to impact the chastity idea.The final part gives the full affirmation to the filial woman's behavior, it was thought that the filial and chaste behavior is not only the result from social pressure , in the certain is also their own choice. The filial women had made the important contributions to the society.