Uxorilocal Marriage Of The Ming Dynasty

As a special form of marriage,uxorilocal marriage is a supplement to the common marriage,and it is a flexible application of the virtual blood relatives of no family in the patriarchal society.The initial time of uxorilocal marriage can not be ascertained,but at least since the warring states period has existed,and its development has continued to this day,with strong vitality.uxorilocal marriage has passed the development of the pre-Qin period,Qin and Han Dynasties,Wei and Jin Dynasties,Sui and Tang Dynasties,Song and Yuan Dynasties,and some changes took place in the Ming Dynasty.The law of the Ming dynasty made clear requirements for uxorilocal marriage,and with the social customs of the Ming Dynasty,uxorilocal marriage has changed to a certain extent.What’s the change of uxorilocal marriage in Ming dynasty? What are the particularities about it ? What are the causes of uxorilocal marriage ? What is the status of a son-in-law in uxorilocal marriage? What is the impact of uxorilocal marriage on society? For these problems,This article will discuss.This article takes uxorilocal marriage of the Ming Dynasty as the research object,which is divided into three parts.The first part is an introduction which introduces the origin of uxorilocal marriage and the academic research status of it.The first part is the introduction,which mainly summarizes the research status of ancient uxorilocal marriage.The second part is the main body,includes three chapters:The first chapter analyses the evolution of the uxorilocal marriage system.Starting with the origin of the uxorilocal marriage,This chapter discusses the system of uxorilocal marriage before Ming Dynasty and Ming Dynasty,focusing on the causes of uxorilocal marriage in Ming Dynasty and the conditions for its establishment.The reasons are mainly analyzed from objective reasons and subjective reasons.The conditions for establishment are mainly discussed from the two aspects of a marriage contract and change of surname.The second chapter discusses the status of the son-in-law in the Ming Dynasty.This chapter is the key chapter of the full text,mainly from the Ming Dynasty law,contract documents,verdict documents and legal case fiction four aspects to study the status of the son-in-law,to explore whether the status of the son-in-law in the Ming Dynasty has improved compared with the previous dynasty.From the laws and regulations of the Ming Dynasty,we can see whether the status of the extra son-in-law has been guaranteed in law;from the contract documents of the Ming Dynasty,we can see the position of the son-in-law in his wife’s family;from the verdict documents and legal case fiction of the Ming Dynasty,we can see whether the protection of the status son-in-law real life that has been effectively implemented in the Ming Dynasty;we can also know the attitude of the officials of the Ming Dynasty to uxorilocal marriage and the main standpoint of judging redundant marriage cases.Although the legal case fiction has a certain literary modification,but some of them originated from real cases in social life,such as "Lianming Lawsuit",and these public case fiction also originated from life.so we believe that these materials to a certain extent reflect the real situation of the society at that time.Moreover,the use of different data can often be mutually corroborated.The third chapter mainly explores the characteristics,problems and causes of uxorilocal marriage in Ming Dynasty.Through the analysis of the data in this paper,the characteristics and the problems in the Ming Dynasty’s uxorilocal marriage are discussed,and then the reasons for these problems are analyzed.The third part is the summary of the whole article.It mainly summarizes the status of the son-in-law in the Ming Dynasty and the influence of the uxorilocal marriage in the Ming Dynasty on the concept of marriage at that time,and summarizes the significance of the uxorilocal marriage in the Ming Dynasty to the contemporary society.Because of the characteristics uxorilocal marriage and the brand of traditional feudal thought,there are still many uxorilocal marriage phenomena in some areas of our country.Some disputes of uxorilocal marriage are often seen,and they are also frequently reported on TV news and the Internet.Therefore,the study of the uxorilocal marriage and the status of the son-in-law in the Ming Dynasty will undoubtedly have some reference significance to the problems arising in the contemporary uxorilocal marriage.