Chinese Family And Marriage Ethics Transmutation Of The May Fourth Period

Start from the year of1840, our country was in the most rigorous feudal system,but it had been forcibly opened, and western things keep coming into the country, the traditional family ethics began to suffer a great impact. This has experienced a series of process, especially the transformation in the May4movement period. In this period, advanced intellectuals hold the flags of science and democracy to fight with the value system of the traditional ethics. We all know family ethics as the basis of the traditional ethics, so it's the only one lead the way to change. many progressed thinkers had launched fierce criticism to traditional family ethics, and gave a lot of modern significance of family ethical, urged the traditional family ethic toward modern steps. This article was writing about the evolution and the causes and effects of family ethics changing the May4th, which is expected to build a better modern family ethics, promote contemporary the actualization of a harmonious society. This article mainly includes three parts which is the second, third, and fourth chapter.From the second chapter beginning, this article into the text, this chapter described what the family ethics like during the old times. The traditional family ethic of main kernel is in order to adapt to the feudal system, and has formed a complete set during the profound influence to the feudal social life and internalization of the basic composition of ethics system, and in mid Qing dynasty the system had reached the top level. But as China's modernization by the foreign power and under the action of compulsory startup in, with the constant development of economy, the natural economic was destroyed, the foundation of our traditional family ethic began to shake. In every aspect of the requirements change, rescuing become the themes of The Times,In this context, thinkers began to examine and gradually reflect on our traditional culture. Has experienced a series of thought transformation and constantly introduce from advanced western culture, and on the basis of the time new family ethics thought to general form.The third chapter start with last chapter's analysis, as marriage ethics is investigated in the process, the paper further the May4movement period family ethics thought the main content of the change. That is in a series of new under the impact of ethics, people first marriage ethics from the starting like:to pursue free love is the only way to make a family, against the arranged marriage; Advocates the equality between men and women, as his wife against Cardiff outline; Against the chastity idea, advocate the new chastity concept. Ushering in modern China from the improvement of women's social status to drive the traditional family marriage ethics reform steps. And, based on this, puts forward to want to implement modern marriage, in the modern marriage built on the foundation of the modern family, fostering\"modern\", the establishment of a modern ethics to lead the modernization of the whole society.The fourth chapter basically is the induction and generalization, and the time of the marriage ethics comprehensive evaluation of evolution. As in Chinese society in the modern times,and the period of the tradition family ethics'modernization, it fully affirmed the family in the basic role of social change, and promote modern family ethics initiation; Emphasizes the freedom of independent citizen personality, and promote the process of the liberation of the people; At the same time, also criticized the family socialist, individual freedom and liberation of the era of interpretation. All of our modern family ethical construction to have the meaning of notes allow to ignore. But, the time of the family and marriage ethics thought inevitable with historical limitations, such as the idea of the extreme and thinking of the social influence of the limitation and so on. So, constructing the modern family marriage ethics, still must be discarded from the inherit the traditional, absorbing the essence of the foreign culture based on construction, but also must consider the actual situation of the modern Chinese society.