Research On The Historically Evolutive Process Of Spouses Title And Related Factors

The language is a sort of social phenomenon, and is the most important intercommunication tool. The development and change of language can reflect all kinds of social development and change, and so is the change of spouses title system. The evolvement of spouses title system has close relation with evolvement of Chinese society and of ethic culture. Further analyzing various links about the formation and development and change of spouses title system has social and historical meaning, also has cultural and realistic meaning. Therefore, the researches on evolvement of spouses title system and related factors have important theoretical meaning and practical meaning. Those researches not only help to deepen the knowledge for the internally developmental law of language, reveal the evolvement trace of spouses title system, and help us to better understand the influence of traditional culture on people's life and thought, so, development and change of China can be seen from those; and Those researches also can help us to more correctly use it in social life and to increase spice of life, and have positive effect on the development of spiritual civilization of society, also.This paper tries to start with the specific title of spouses in the different periods. The different social system and social ethics embodied by the title as well as then life state of people have been studied, including sexual discrepancy embodied by spouses title, formation of discrepancy, and the reason of change. In this paper, the summary method, analysis method, induction, and antitheses are mainly used to study the evolvement process of spouses title system and the related factor influencing the evolvement of spouses title system, on the basis of analysing and referring to forefather's research accomplishment.Every evolvement of spouses title system has close relation with the development of Chinese society. The relique, left by maternal clan in the Late Qin period, still exist. Women do not become the dependency of men completely, the position between husband and wife is equal, and some titles are common between spouses. But through the specific title word of spouses, we can see that the dividing-up of social labour according to sex has been embodied in spouses title.The succedent feudal patriacrchal system of more than 2000 years makes society present obvious unequal between men and women. The different position between men and women as well as influence of ethic culture make the sexual discrepancy in title to be reinforced, which embodiment in the spouses title system is that title of husband is mainly respectful one, honorific one, but title of wife is mostly courteous one, even lowly one. The people in feudal society are divided into different grades, so different titles are generated to fit those different grades. Women get different title and enjoy different treatment according to the rank of nobility of her husband. Spouses title is different with the rank of nobility. Spouses title system has obvious grade colour in traditional society. In the modern society, along with vanishment of feudalism system and the social equality, spouses title with obvious grade colour as well as discriminated and lowly title have quitted spouses title system, and the various title ways, which can embody equality of men and women, have come out.Surveying Chinese feudal society of more than 2000 years, though Three Creed', the representative theory of feudal ethics, confines the people's thought and depresses the people's feelings, the feelings of people are revealed and the laudatory titles between spouses emerge like bamboo shoots after a spring rain, as long as the control of ethics is a little loose. Along with the unceasing development of social economy, in the medium and later stage of feudal society, the urbanism process accelerates, the culture of common customs develops quickly, many common titles begin to enter spouses title system, and a lot of interesting enantiosis nicknames between spouses also appear, which become the bright and beautiful scenery in spouses title system.The evolvement of spouses title system can be restricted by social system and ethic culture, and also can be influenced by the internally developmental law of language. Under the common action of internal and external causes, spouses title system has been developed and updated in the evolving course of thousands of years.