The Study Of The Female Family Etiquette During Ming And Qing Dynasties In Huizhou

China is known as formal state. The reason why people formulated etiquette is in order to maintain social order. Traditional Confucian scholar-officials to female to participate in the activities of family etiquette also conducted a variety of specifications. Huizhou is a traditional etiquette was profound area. In order to conformed their own words and deeds etiquette norms, the people of Huizhou always advocated by the Confucian tradition etiquette. Huizhou is a typical clan society during Ming and Qing Dynasties. Clan control strictly female demeanor. In order to keep the traditional hierarchy, there are series of regulations conducted female’s etiquette activities. However, most families of Huizhou are incomplete, during Ming and Qing Dynasties. Lots of male go out to do business, home or perennial, or death. The male authority in those families is deficiency. These situations upset the traditional etiquette practice order. These Huizhou female who living in the clan control and the imperfect families have troubles. How to maintain family etiquette normal operation? In Ming and Qing Dynasties, how the connections between Huizhou female participate in the family and social etiquette practice? These are the problems of this paper will explore.This article mainly divides into three parts. The first part mainly combing traditional Confucian classics to specification for women to participate in the champions league faint sacrificial rites. That can help us to understand the ideal female in the family etiquette standard. With the development of the times, female’s participation in family etiquette norms has to change and development. This reflects the characteristics of the inheritance and innovation of etiquette. But on the whole, in the traditional Confucian etiquette rules, female always act as male’s assistants. Reflects the view of that the male are superior to female.The second part mainly according to the Ming and Qing dynasties Huizhou genealogy, local gazetteers and corpus data, women actually participate in the wedding, funeral, the etiquette of the cult activities, discusses the Ming and Qing dynasties Huizhou women of traditional family etiquette rules already comply with appropriate modifications to reality Reflect the Ming and Qing dynasties Huizhou female of the traditional family etiquette already comply with appropriate modifications to reality. Show the Ming and Qing dynasties Huizhou female in order to maintain the family etiquette paid the unimaginable hardships, normal operation. These female contribute to the survival and development of family and the family life of its own.The third part main analyze the relevance between Huizhou society and female etiquette activities. During the Ming and Qing dynasties Huizhou families are lack of male power. This situation forced to by a woman to fill the blank of the etiquette practices. With the traditional Huizhou popular mercantilism are inseparable. The prosperity of Huizhou merchants in turn, support the operation of the female etiquette practice.Huizhou clan strict moral codes control has played the role of public opinion and the thought of muzzle, Huizhou female made during the Ming and Qing dynasties will be the traditional etiquette into self behavior standards, can still rely on their own in the incomplete family her thin shoulders up the responsibility of the family, with their diligence and wisdom to flexibility of traditional etiquette practices, in order to realize the family ritual to function smoothly.In the Huizhou society of Ming and Qing dynasties, whether it is in what class of female, are restricted by Confucian traditional manners. The Huizhou female in the actual to participate in the activities of the etiquette practices, have to make a balance between the reality and manners in the family, doing her best to help family members to complete the practice of family etiquette, in order to comply with the provisions of the social ethics, obtain recognition and social acceptance of people. At this time of Huizhou female acting as a nucleus of the family, undertake the responsibility and obligation of traditional etiquette, which gave female.