Study Of Wedding Newly Organized

Wedding Newly Organized, compiled by Ding Shengzhi in Song Dynasty, is a general reference book about special record wedding related content.Ding Shengzhi lived between Emperor Guangzong of Song and Emperor Nuangzong of Song. And Wedding Newly Organized was completed at about 1190 to 1195.There is only an existing version, and the book is stored by National Library of China, which is Fujian bookshop printing.Wedding Newly Organized had 20 volumes with 86 subclasses in it. It contained wedding, Shu-yi, marriage contract and allusions. Wedding and Shu-yi are in the first volume, including Sima Guang's some works and so on. 181 marriage contracts were collected from the second volume to the 10th volume, and they were indexed into 41 subclasses.There were many works written by celebrities in Song Dynasty and scholars from Fujian. There were 407 allusions about wedding in all ages, which involved extensive contents from Confucian classics, historical records, philosophical writings and miscellaneous works. We can find that Ding Shengzhi processed these allusions with various forms through researching on origins of the allusions.Marriage contracts were mainly used for two important wedding parts and explaining cnoditions of couples after six etiquettes were simplified. As the basis of marriage, marriage contracts in Song Dynasty made the role for restraining and protecting marriage, which reflected the need for marriage contracts in weddings. So there were many marriage contracts in Wedding Newly Organized.There were some certain corresponding relation between marriage contracts and allusions in Wedding Newly Organized. One of the characters of marriage contracts in Song Dynasty is using allusions,especially using allusions in The Book of Songs admiring the virtues. Many allusions in marriage contracts were often corresponding to the allusions collected by the book. And some of the types and contents of the allusions always reflected some wedding ideas in some marriage contracts.Wedding Newly Organized and the Spare Book for Newly Organized Wedding of Matchmaker were general reference books for recording the contents of wedding specially appeared in South Song Dynasty. Some of the Spare Book for Newly Organized Wedding of Matchmaker were lost.Now only the catalogue from the first volume to the 12th volume and the contents of the first three volume exist. There were significant overlap between the two books in the subclasses and contents through comparing existing contents. According to the information of the Spare Book for Newly Organized Wedding of Matchmaker gathered in the library, it was completed after Wedding Newly Organized. From this we can guess that some of the Spare Book for Newly Organized Wedding of Matchmaker were copied from Wedding Newly Organized.What's else, Wedding Newly Organized has the value of literature collecting. 106 marriage contracts in Wedding Newly Organized weren't collected in The Complete Works of Song. What's more, was the only source of some works, which was important for marriage contracts collecting in Song Dynasty.