Civil Legal Status Of The Tang Dynasty Women's Studies

In ancient civilization China, Female was always connected with being dominated and coerced and has no rights and freedom. Being one sex of two—the female sex, the modernize scholars always focus on what is the actually situation about the Female's live and social status. Especially recent years, there are many research findings in study Female' social status .But there are little of them study on in law eyes, especially about the women's civil law status in Tang Dynasty. The author tries to study it through law eyes by taking Tang Dynasty's law as the foundation. This article takes three strong characters as entering point, which the characters acted by an ancient times women in her whole life. These roles are daughter, wife and mother. Meanwhile the wife and the mother have many specialities, that a wife also is a mother at the same time, especially a widowed mother. We study the women's civil law status in Tang Dynasty through separating them in two social stratums: the upper class women and the common class women. This article introduces the Tang Dynasty social development and women's social status at first. Then we analyze attentively the personal rights and property rights of women's in Tang Dynasty, presenting the real situation of Tang Dynasty women's civil law status. By analyzing the law and the literary works, we have a conclusion that the civil law status of women' in Tang Dynasty is higher than any other Dynasty in ancient China, especially from Song Dynasty to Qing Dynasty. The conclusion comes out can help us to give an objective appraisal to the ancient women's legal status. It also does better to look at and in-depth study to modernize women's social status.