On The Policy Of Offering Good Treatment And Providing For The Aged In Song Dynasty

Respect the aged is one of the traditional virtues of Chinese nation. Attitude and measures that provided for the aged become an important gist of scaling the moral standard, orientation of values and degree of stability in a date. Many dynasties made series policies about offering good treatment and providing for the aged. Song dynasty is a'new continued developing period', its policy that about offering good treatment to the aged combined respect and providing for the ole people, it can be said overall. Targets that were being provided for contained not only the aged officials but also the aged ordinary person. The policy, for concrete measures, started from the conception of'respect and adore the aged', consulted factors such as the old people's status and age gave courteous reception and caring rankly. The policy of providing for the aged emphasis some measures which ensured the realizing of old people's nourishing. Generally, encourage and supervise and urge family's aged providing ,improve and perfect systems like'shi ding'(not to go serve for their directly relation's providing system),'aged officials'shi lao'(officials stay to provided for their directly relations or bring them to their posting system) and'liu yang'( lighten punishment on criminals for their directly relations'providing system), for the aged destitute ,the authorities helped actively and a organized national relieving system was fundamentally formed.In China, Song dynasty is an important transforming period, there were many changes, in economy, culture and social relations, which inevitably influenced its policy's forming and endued it with distinct characteristics of times, the good treatment and providing for the aged policy also reflected some, for instance, as the advancing of science and technology and the development of cultures, civilizing functions of etiquettes that about providing for the aged diminished, some policies became more practical, compared with the giving materials to the aged policy, in aspects of capital investing, organizing dynamics and beneficiary's extent , the relieving aged policy's practical function is more noticeable.Based on the research fruits of offering good treatment and providing for the aged in the period of Pre-Qin, Eastern and Western Han, Tang, Ming and Qing dynasty, excavate and organize Song dynasty's correlating policy is beneficial to the inheriting, development and the all-sided knowing and understanding of the respect and adore aged tradition in ancient times of China .