Qin And Han Dynasties "Do Not Bury The Only" Problem

As an important period of the Qin and Han Dynasties,Chinese feudal society established fundamentally.Under the background of that the confucianism become the guiling social thought,the burial customs had a different point that not only the imperial household conjugality would be entombed together after they dead,but also the rulling groups entombed the couple in harness.In this course, the burial condition for the ruling class women reflects the feudal society had further process in Qin and Han dynasties. The multi-burial become a social fashion and had a wild spread over the country.This tradition continues to this day.Nowadays,We take it for granted that people trust the wife’s soul would be live together with her husband as the present world.This relationship is throught life and die.As the most powerful man in the country,the empero had a legal wife,at the same time,he had so many women as his concubines.It ensure the empero would has enough sons to choose one of them as his heres.However, the legal wife didn’t have the heres sometimes,so the heres’mother was one of the concubines.After the empero dead,the new empero had two empress dowages.One was his father’s wife,anoher was his own mother.After the dowages dead,who would be multi-burial with the predecessor empero was a problem that shown the different position.It was easily found out that the Empress Dowager Xia in Qin Dynasty, mother of Emperor Wen of Han and mother of Emperor Zhao of Han were the Out of the ordinary circumstances.Through the analysis of their life and death situation and changes in relation to the Qin and Han Dynasties social thought for gender roles,the sexual distincion had developed in the new period.It reflect the development that is accompanied by the feudal the process which show of women’s social role in increasing marginalization at that time.