Marriage Of The Sui Dynasty Women

This dissertation mainly made use of the unearthed epitaphs about women during Sui Dynasty, and refers to other historical literature,to analyze the women's marriage and family life in Sui Dynasty.The academic circles used the unearthed epitaphs to prove and supplement history has already become a very important aspect in contemporary research.Ancient classical history mainly records the political activities,supplemented by other people's deeds,there are few account about women in it.The epitaphs of Sui Dynasty preserved a large number of valuable information of women's life, To provided the rich firsthand information on studied Sui Dynasty women's marriage life,women's role and responsibilities in the family.I carefully read more than 500 epitaphs of Sui Dynasty, Particularly made use of 248 epitaphs about women,And widely unites classical history,other historical notes and novels,To discussed some concepts and objective phenomenon in marriage and family life of the Sui Dynasty,To expected have in-depth understanding in the Sui Dynasty women's marriage and family life.The full text is divided into five chapters:Chapterâ… ,"The Sui Dynasty women's marriage age",mainly discussed the marriage age of women in Sui Dynasty.The women married in the Sui Dynasty mainly concentrated between 13-19 years old,especially by 15 years old of majority,accounted for the 26.8%in total number of statistics,13-14 years old and 16-19 Years old which accounted for 21.9%and 31.7%.They are many reasons for early marriage in Sui Dynasty,including the social environment,family needs and the impact of customs and so on.In addition,the emergence of a higher age of marriage is gradually affecting the successor Tang Dynasty,in the age of marriage belonging to a smooth transition period of history.Chapterâ…¡,"The concept of marriage," focuses on the Sui Dynasty people's some normative standards and concepts when choose wife.Family status concept is still prevalent in the Sui Dynasty, people were proud of married the famous family.As the dependent status of wife,the moral character is very important.People also paid more attention to the ability of women manages housework,women's inherent quality and cultural accomplishment,and women's appearance in the Sui Dynasty society.Chapterâ…¢,"The main life of married women",mainly observed the activities and responsibilities of the Sui Dynasty married women in the family life.Sui Dynasty married women mainly in the small circle of family,undertake many responsibilities and duty,such as taking care and supporting her husband,serving the parents-in-low,nurturing their children,managing the housework,as well as preserving the family harmonious and so on.The married women returns to the maternal home,not merely a courtesy of exchanges,also contain the practical significance that help parents manage housework,to perform the filial piety.Women take the family as her own department was still the identifiable role in the Sui Dynasty society.Chapterâ…£,"Sui Dynasty women's concept of the chastity and widowed life",focuses on the Sui Dynasty women's concept of the chastity,preserved chastity and widowed life.The most of the Women in the Sui Dynasty preserved chastity after the death of their husbands,their focus of life shifted to the upbringing of the children,maintaining the family property and other issues,they not only have to replace her husband to complete the obligations that serving the elderly,nurturing children,but aslo arranging life more reasonably,making the family life in order.Some women had very litter communication with other people after their huaband died.there are a considerable number of women choose to believe Buddhist,they spend the rest of her life with pure heart and few desires.Through analyze the Epitaph records about the widowed women,we can see that in the Sui Dynasty society,women have strengthened the concept of chastity,in particular the social mainstream values to strongly promote and appreciation of the so-called chaste women.Chapterâ…¤"Special marriage",There were two special marriage in the Sui Dynasty-marriage ceremony for persons already dead and eunuch marriage.From the historical origins and the existence reasons to discuss.The former was parents hold the marriage formally for their unfortunate dead children,to get some psychological consoles.The Sui Dynasty eunuch' concept of marriage do not have different among normal marriage,women still need to abide the traditional women ethics, maintain the nominal marriage.In conclusion,this dissertation descript the marriage and family life of women in the Sui Dynasty mainly through the Epitaphs of the Sui Dynasty,to discuss some concepts and objective phenomenon of the marriage and family life in this period,And contact history environmental at that time,to analyze and explain the basic status of women's life,to make some preliminary exploration and research on women's marriage and family life in the Sui Dynasty.