Research On Marriage Ethics Reform During The May Fourth Movement

Marriage ethics is one of the important components of social ethics.Its formation and development are closely related to the social productive forces and modes of production.It is the product of the development of human society to a certain stage.As the most basic and intimate form of social relations,marriage ethics plays an important role in regulating the moral and stable marriage order of men and women.Different periods of marriage ethics have their social,political,economic,cultural background and historical features,Chinese traditional marriage ethics is formed on the basic of the feudal autocratic rule,it represents the upper class will and the rule of right.In modern China,in the face of the great powers invaded and severe national crisis,the patriotic lofty ideals are to reform,through the reflection on the traditional culture and launched a series of criticizing feudal ethics thoughts of political reform movement,called forChinese people learn western advanced culture,and through the "democracy" and thethought of "scientific" progress carries forward the new culture,to realize the people thought liberation brought positive role.In this ideological emancipation movement,the most outstanding expression is the "may fourth" period of the marriage ethics reform criticism.This paper first explores the social,historical and cultural background of marital ethics reform in the "May 4th" Movement,which is the starting point and precondition for the study of the development of marriage ethics.Secondly,the paper summarizes the contents of marriage ethics in the may fourth movement,including the opposition to arranged marriage,the anti-husband and the anti-one-sided view of virginity.In grasp of the content,this paper put forward the "May 4th" Movement main significance lies in the fact that marriage ethics change must be based on love of free love,promote the development of female independent personality,criticizing the family standard and promote the development of personality and the pursuit of freedom of marriage.Finally,the paper based on the characteristics of the may fourth period marriage ethics and evaluation are summarized and combing,summed up the development of the may fourth period marriage ethics characteristics,limitations and the significance for the construction of modern marriage ethics.From the perspective of rationality,the criticism of the old morality and the positive affirmation of love in the role of love in the process of marriage ethics during the "May 4th" Movement will help promote the development of modern marriage ethics.In terms of its historicallimitations,the may fourth period in the process of marriage ethics change the greatest historical limitations is "celibacy" and "marriage",celibacy old school for the institution of marriage and marriage has extreme negative stubborn extreme thoughts,marriage parties out the human nature,people’s free development."May 4th" Movement of the reform of the institution of marriage is to China for more than two thousand years long feudalism rebellion,as the key period for China’s modern marriage ethics institutional change,the change process of the old moral thorough criticism and the affirmation of the basic role of love in the marriage relationship,the modern marriage ethics and social development have important enlightenment role and theory significance.