The Study Of Women’s Daily Life Space During The Ming And Qing Dynasties In Huizhou

In the Ming and Qing Dynasties, Huizhou clan prevailed, the clan forces strict control of the daily behavior of the women in the family, and the women’s daily living space were strictly limited.The clan provides that “man shall not enter into the inner chamber”,“women have not out the door without reason”, want to limit women within the house, however, in the Huizhou area, with the developed commodity economy, a large number of men go out to do business, so the elderly, children and women become the main left-behind group. Without one manage the family, how to maintain it normal operation? The Huizhou women sandwiched between the clan forces and social needs, how to stepped out of the house, participate in the social production and life? This is the paper will mainly dicussed.This paper mainly discussed the Huizhou women’s daily living space in the Ming and Qing Dynasties, discussed from four aspects:the family living space, economic space, communication and recreation space, religion and sacrifice space. The first chapter mainly description the women’s main activities in the back hall, the kitchen, the courtyard and garden to delineation the Huizhou women’s family living space. The second chapter mainly discusses the women’s participation in the field work, business management and other economic activities to generalize the Huizhou women’s economic activity space. The third chapter through carding women’s daily contacts and daily leisure activities, summarizes the Huizhou women’s daily communication space and entertainment space:her parents and in-laws, clan and neighborhood, green mountains and rivers, the clan halls and temples. The fourth chapter describes Huizhou women’s faith and worship space. During the Ming and Qing Dynasties Huizhou women worship their ancestor and the religions reflect women’s belief space. From home to temple, formed the Huizhou women’s outside God belief space. Form home to the clan hall, formed the Huizhou women’s God belief space.Huizhou in the Ming and Qing Dynasties, both the upper or the lower women, not only to do the family internal business, but also actively participate in the various fields of social production and living. They through a variety of ways to expand the daily activities and interactions, thus formed the family as the center, constantly outward daily living space.