A Study On The Issue Of The Rights Of Women's Makeup In The Song Dynasty

History is a mirror, by which we can reflect reality, as original intention and reason of reading history. This paper will choose the ownership of trousseaux fields which plays a key role in women’s assets as the research object on the research on the issue of ownership of women in Song dynasty, to revivify the original appearance of social life at that time by means of special traverse analyzing methods of sociology, deeply analyze the substantial influence generated by state will, official will and the mass will, whose aim is to testify that the women in Song possess the ownership of trousseaus fields. Thus, we can have a clear understanding of economic status of women in Song, and intensify the intellectual recognition of social life in Song.The research involving the social statuses who live in period of Song Dynasties and reside in areas inhabited by Han in Central China, mainly argue that whether those various social classes take sides with women including the married daughter, the unmarried daughter and widow in possession of their trousseaux fields. Except the foreword and the conclusion, the body can be divided into four parts:The first part mainly summarizes on women trousseaux fields and its ownership problems.The second part analyzes the provisions about trousseaux fields to illustrate the legislative tendency on the issue. The trousseaux fields of women in Song are legally the private properties that belong to the women themselves, neither belong to the public properties nor the married daughter’s home because of the death of the women; the ownership is independent legally, and protected by national laws.The third part focuses on analyzing the cases that appear in historical material<The Ming Gong Shu Pan Qing Ming Ji>, illustrates the reflection of the will of judicial officials on the issue of ownership of women trousseaux fields. For example, in many cases of the disputes of trousseaux properties in the family of Song Dynasty, mainly aiming at disputes of trousseaux properties relating to different identities of women such as the unmarried daughter, the married daughter and widow, judicial official make a tendentious judgment to indicate his will. With the rational humanistic concern and superb legal accomplishment of statues of ancient officials, judicial officials in Song Dynasty pacify the weak in every case relating to the dispute of women trousseaux field, maintain the due ownership of trousseaux fields of women in Song Dynasty impartially and unflatteringly.The fourth part deeply analyzes the attitude the mass hold to that whether the women possess the ownership of trousseaux starting from the public consciousness, such as the prevailing of the practice of high dowry, acquiescing that women may deal with the properties by selling the trousseaux fields, and the issue of attribution of right when the widow remarry. Public opinion of common people takes the women trousseaux fields as the private property of women magnanimously, and tolerates the rights owned by women in Song Dynasty when the widow remarry and sell trousseaux filed.The body mainly analyzes the issue that it studies in a sense of sociology from the above three aspects, and finally draws the conclusion that women in Song Dynasty possess the ownership of trousseaux fields.