The Marriage And Social Life Of Sogdian Women Into China In Medieval

In medieval times the epitaphs and instruments of Sogdian were unearthed which contain a number of Sogdian women, the Sogdian merchants into China along with a number of accompanying family members, the rest of the Sogdian women I speculated who as prisoners of war, tributeor, the slave trade are trafficked into China. These Sogdian women either voluntary or passive intermarried with Han Chinese, Sogdian people or people of other ethnic groups, seen from the unearthed materials Han Chinese, Sogdian people or people of other nationalities who Choose a wife focus on morality, Perhaps it is because the time to enter China or Do as the Romans do, most of Sogdian female epitaphs which reflected the elective concept of wife is the same as the Chinese people, character oriented, With due consideration to women’s chastity, talent, looks and so on, but some details still reflects that they did not completely abandon the traditional of sogdian。 Not until they got married and daughter’s responsibility and which as mothers, Honor and serve Parents-in-law consistent with the requirements of the Confucian heritage of the Middle Ages. Moreover, there are some Sogdian women began to get out of the house, to engage in various social activities.