The Study On The Emperor's Son-in-law Of Han Dynasty

The emperor's son-in-law system is the wife's or mother's family system important constituent and it is the inevitable product of the emperor system. The emperor's son-in-law not only is the imperial authority the supporter, in the certain degree also is the imperial authority destroyer. Therefore, each dynasty all extremely takes the emperor's son-in-law system the establishment and the consummation, makes every effort maintenance which causes the emperor's son-in-law system construction and development stage, which has provided the important model regarding later dynasty emperor's son-in-law system consummation.This paper first speaks the emperor's son-in-laws'class origin and marriage the formation through chooses emperor's son-in-laws'standard and the way description to the Han Dynasty, we can briefly summarize the change of the reason about Xi-Han Dynasty's emperor's son-in-laws'and Dong-Han Dynasty's emperor's son-in-laws'class origin are different. The root cause is the need to defend autocratic monarchy. Emperor's son-in-law itself is through marries with the imperial authority forms, therefore studies emperor's son-in-law's marriage and the family is knew the emperor's son-in-law community importantly cuts the entrance. Emperor's son-in-law's marriage fills the rich political color, is the realistic benefit product. Han Dynasty emperor's son-in-law marriage two big characteristics: Political nature and relative marriage. In the family life, Han Dynasty emperor's son-in-law is in the subordinate status, its relations is not the wife take the husband as the honor, but is the husband as is expensive take the wife, also the husbands and wives relate many are not harmonious. Because the emperor's son-in-law is in the political struggle the center, the political career is extremely unstable. Emperor's son-in-laws'posterity is the fruit of the royalty and the aristocrat; they can enjoy many special rights. Through to the emperor's son-in-law community three big characteristics: the emperor's son-in-laws'class origin and their quality are different, the life and marriage are unstable, political life dimness.