The Study Of The Life Consumption Of Women In The Song Dynasty

The period between the Tang and Song Dynasty is an important time that the relationship feudal society and economic makes a great changes. Consumption as an important part of the social economy in the period also appears new features which different from the past. This article selects the female consumption of the Song Dynasty in daily life as the research object which has been given less attention. Then observe the female economic issues which occurred in the living space of outside the doors.The Song Dynasty over the Five Dynasties and the Ten States, and reunite the most parts of China. Economic and development of the society restart and adapt to the environment of the social consumption, at the same time the commodity economy change a lot. The first change is the strength the power of female economy. The Song Dynasty women not only have certain right of inheritance, also extensive participate the social employment in areas of agriculture, handicraft industry, business and so on. And all of these provide a basis for the consumer. In addition, the intellectual groups of the Song Dynasty think that the female consumption is the original reason of the extravagant economy. So they encourage women to make production and restrain their consumption.The commercial economy of the Song Dynasty develops and women are the members who enter the tide of consume wave. The consumption is varied for the life of women themselves and their development, and its content includes four levels, consumption of survival, developmental consumption, enjoy consumption and common consumption. Through to investigate the four levels, it is known that the women in the Song Dynasty aren't confined in the limited space of their families, and they take part in the areas of the social commercial economy more and more widely.Because the women'statues in their families determines the female consumption is agent, it is evident that the class system appears in the female consumption, and then female conspicuous begins. Thus, in the Song Dynasty, have the series of consume ethics about the female consume behavior been inherited and developed in the honor thrift and restrict luxury. Except that, the female consumer are also make a great influence in some commodity production and currency.