The Marriage Of Imperial Clan In Ming Dynasty

The royal families were Royal family members, who were the special group in the ancient social class structure of feudal dynasty. Their espousals activities, which not just simple marriage behavior, have an important impact on the political, economic and social development of feudal dynasty. So Ming Dynasty attached importance to Clan espousals. At the beginning of Ming Dynasty founding, Zhu Yuanzhang had formulated the series of hierarchical Clan marriage etiquette and founded Sonder organisation which took charge these things. Thereafter, with the rise and fall of the dynasty, these systems continuously were adjusted, the core was always reflecting the norm of Supreme imperial power.During Hong wu and Yong le, the princes were endowed with many privileges, with strong power to discipline the Attaches group and the sycophant clique. In the political structure, the ruler use Clan espousals to support and consolidate the rule of the emperor. The emperor had localized military generals via intermarriage and realized that the original political system was bad for the unification of the imperial power, gradually deprived the princes'privileges, founded civil service and Cabinet system which had become the core of the political system. During Hongxi and Xuande, with the formation of the political system, Clan status had taken place drastic changes. Clan espousals gradually faded away the original political color, increasingly produced negative effect for the economic and social development of the dynasty.Since Zhen tong, the idle administration of some emperor led directly to the Political corruption, the social unrest and the economic crisis. In the overall environment tend to worsen, clan members also appeared a variety of problems, main show is choose marriage difficult and violations system espousals phenomenon overflowed; ZongLu problems and clan crime caused by clan espousals issues sharpened social contradictions , more deepened the Ming dynasty ruled crisis. In order to solve the problems, during Jia jing, wanly period, the government adopted some policies such as limiting marriage in order to have clan marriage problems restricted within a certain range. But later, these policies were hard to put into practice. At that time, ZongLu caused by the clan and the population expansion had become a serious economic burden. Facing the increasingly serious crisis, some clan members didn't restrain own behavior, but destroyed relevant ban. After the emperor Chong Zhen committed suicide, the Fu Wang, Lu Wang, Gui Wang were rapidly defeated. These historical facts inspire us: imperial clan, as an important symbol of the Ming imperial rule, had already lost their due appeal.