The Study On The Practice Of The Institution Of Marriage And Women’s Social Status In Tang Dynasty

The Tang dynasty is the development of ancient chinese feudal dynasties in oneof the most prosperous dynasty, it created a brilliant civilization and prosperity, itspolitical, economic, cultural and other aspects have been unprecedented developmentand prosperity. The Tang dynasty, As a boom period during all the feudal society,Thelegislative codification has reached the peak of the Tang dynasty in the politicalsystem,meanwhile, the precepts of the specific content on the institution of marriagehas also been more detailed requirements. The Tang law emphasizes that "echoes oflaw and ritual and comply with the ancient ritual," However, through a lot of literaturehistory books, biographies, literature, information and materials Epitaph recordsshows that the Tang dynasty marital status and marital law enforcement provisions ofthe legal system presenced certain number of the paradoxical places. Tang dynasty,the institution of marriage for women confirms the legal relationship of marriage inmany fields, which shows that women were in subordinate and humble status infamily and social. By contrary, in real life, marriage system of Tang dynasty showsmany contrary phenomenons to the reality of marriage customs in many provisionsand situations, which is due to special social environment and the impact of historicalcircumstances in Tang dynasty. Tang dynasty is a relatively stable, highly developedsocial, which made the culture and foreign exchange was vibrant, confident, generous,inclusive in many sides. In such an open, liberal special social environment, the socialstatus of women has distinctive characteristics in Tang dynasty. The women have adynasty which is unmatched advantages to ever ancient female. The women in Tangdynasty ware access to marriage, autonomy, control over domestic affairs, receivedthe same education as men’s rights, as well as the right to a wide range of socialinteraction. However, by the time constraints, the women’s fate still can not get rid ofthe fun of the traditional feudal ethical code, the dual nature of their social status intheir body received the most realistic mapping.This article is to the relevant provisions of the Tang dynasty about the institutionof marriage as the starting point for the study.This article focuses on practice to theinstitution of marriage and describes some contrary phenomenons with the institutionof marriage. The article shows that many inconsistent with the phenomenons, trying to reveals huge gap between the reality of marriage and marriage customs legalsystem,which aims to reveal deep-seated reasons according to economic, political,cultural and other multi-angle for study. The paper makes a comparative study aboutthe marriage law and the reality of marriage so that the readers can much morecomprehensive and profound understand women’s social status under specialsurroundings of marriage customs in the Tang dynasty.