Research On The Marriage Contract Of The Southern Song Dynasty

Marriage contract is a kind of practical writing produced in the process of marriage in ancient times with four or six parallel prose as the creative form.In the Southern Song Dynasty,Zhu Xi simplified the marriage customs and customized “marriage etiquette”.That is,the male sent the bride to the wedding,the man sent the bridesmaid to the woman's home,and the bridegroom went to the woman's home to marry the bride when they were married.There were a total of 19 pre-marital instruments.The research object of this paper is based on "four or six parallel " as the carrier,in the form of private letters,produced in the marriage proposal and marriage in the process of being included in the marriage books of literati.In other words,there are 7 kinds of marriage documents,such as the negotiation of marriage,the proposal of marriage,the asking for marriage,the request for a term,the answer to the confirmation,and the answer to the marriage in these 19 kinds of marriage instruments.There are less than 50 marriage contract in the Northern Song Dynasty and 320 in the Southern Song Dynasty,which is almost 7 times the number of the marriage contract in the Northern Song Dynasty.The number of marriage documents in the Southern Song Dynasty is huge,which is not only the legal contract to protect the interests of both sides of marriage,but also a beautiful literary work with beautiful rhetoric and meaning.However,its literary research has been neglected by the academic circles all the time.This paper takes the marriage contract of the Southern Song Dynasty as the research object,and discusses the application of various marriage instruments in the marriage contract of the Southern Song Dynasty,the characteristics of marriage in each period and the characteristics o,and the artistic characteristics of the marriage contract of the Southern Song Dynasty by means of the combination of macro and micro methods.Chapter 1.This paper studies the application of marriage custom and instrument of marriage in the Southern Song Dynasty.Through the collection of the Southern Song Dynasty papers and contract collected in the marriage instrument document arrangement,we can see that the Southern Song marriage instrument instruments a total of 19 types,respectively,used in three different stages of “the man sends a wedding gift to the woman”,“the man sent the bridesmaid to the woman's home” and “and the bridegroom went to the woman's home to marry the bride when they were married”.We can divide the marriage contract into two types by the authors of the marriage contract: the endorsements and the self-speaking marriage,and the marriage documents can be divided into inviting marriage documents,marriage consentdocuments,gift list documents and celebration documents by the function of marriage contract.Chapter 2 Taking the times as the axis,this paper analyzes the characteristics of marriage documents and marriage characteristics in different stages of the Southern Song Dynasty.In the early Southern Song Dynasty,asking for marriage focused on regional marriage,official marriage and men's career;in the late Southern Song Dynasty,Neo-Confucianism had a profound impact on the thought of marriage.At the end of the Southern Song Dynasty,the feelings such as actively avoiding the world,retreating passively,thinking of mountain and forest,and the envy of reclining reflected the desolation of the literati in the Southern Song Dynasty.Chapter 3 To study the artistic characteristics of the marriage books in the Southern Song Dynasty.The marriage books of the Southern Song Dynasty have the beauty of the traditional four or six parallel,the beauty of the implicit,the beautiful of rhetoric,the beauty of the syllables,and so on.There are four or six parallel in Song Dynasty,it has approachable and smooth beauty;Its temperament shows a unique personality that is almost aloof;It is not empty words and beautiful words.As the application document of marriage custom,the marriage contractof the Southern Song Dynasty also has its unique beauty.First,it is elegant and reasonable.Secondly,it is simple with words and contents.Third,it is rich in style and popular in books.The fourth is the appointment of one,elegant and popular.