The New Theory Of Marriage Patterns Of The Scholars

On the basis of the studies of the predecessors and the previous excellent elites,this thesis examines the love and marriage life and the marriage patterns in The Scholars.The purpose of it is to research the ideological and cultural connotations of the love andmarriage life in The Scholars.The first chapter is about the family background of Wu JingZi and the study of hismarriage. This part mainly discusses about Wu JingZi’s family background, marriage,his life as stepson, and his moving to Nan Jing. Wu Jingzi’s family got rich byConfucianism and imperial examinations; Wu Jingzi had two marriages, he first marriedwith the second daughter (named Tao) of Tao Qinli in Quanjiao County. After the deathof Tao, he married with the daughter (named Ye) of the doctor of Chinese medicine;because of the suffering of family difficulty, Wu Jingzi left hometown in anger and livedin Nanjing. Then he made friends with many progressive scholars and thinkers inNanjing, this had certain positive influences to his thoughts.The second chapter is about the discussion of the twisted type of marriage in TheScholars. The description of the twisted type of marriage in the work can be divided intofive patterns: when someone gets rich and honor, he changes the peace life and changewife; wife and concubine couldn’t get on well with each other, they struggle to getwealth and seize the place; because of the harm from the imperial examination, thehusband and wife discord; as the matchmaker’s cheat and cause marriage misfortune;for the traditional social restraints, wife’s martyrdom as the death of husband. On thebasis of the studies of the patterns, this paper further analyzes the deeper reasons whichcause the series of unhappy marriages.The third chapter is about the discussion of the ideal type of marriage in TheScholars. This part focuses on the analysis of Du Shaoqing and Zhuang Shaoguang’smarriage, presents the ideal marriage in the author’s mind, that is, marriage can’t bebuilt on the base of the fame and fortune, the husband and wife should understand andsupport each other, husband should has filial piety, wife should be virtuous, kind andgentle, the marriage life penetrate cultural factors. This kind of ideal marriage has boththe ideas of progressive democracy and the scrupulously obedience to the feudal moral human relations.The fourth chapter is the discussion about the rebel type of marriage in TheScholars. This part mainly describes the marriages of Shen Qiongzhi and Shuang Hongwho had rebel ideas, expounds the marriage attitude of Shen Qiongzhi and the rebelfeature of Shuang Hong’s marriage, and compares the marriage attitudes betweenShuang Hong and Si Qi. Shuang Hong and Si Qi’s pursuit of free love are very alike.Both of them dare to ignore the power and to strive for their own choosing rights, butabout the independent sense, Si Qi is better than Shuang Hong, Si Qi doesn’t lose herown personality and thoughts even with the influences of her lover.The fifth chapter is about the Study of The Scholars from Cultural Perspective. It isbelieved that this book involves three kinds of marital patterns with rich culturalimplication. Wu Jingzi’s opinion on marriage is full of Confucian thinking. That’s alsothe reason why he denies imperial examination system and fame and fortune but praisehighly traditional Confucian mores. Meanwhile, though on the whole his marital valuegoes back to the feudal ethnic morals it is still with certain color of progressivedemocracy.