In The Early Republic Of China Marriage Customs Reform

Early Republic of China, is the transition period of Chinese society. In the wave ofWestern integration intersection, people’s thinking has also undergone a change as theypursue an advanced, civilized things, abandon backward, ignorant things. It is in this trend,social customs gradually transition from traditional to modern civilization, people ’s attitudesin the context of marriage is different from the previous, more people requires freedom ofmarriage, advocated free love, simplify the traditional wedding ceremony, the wedding washeld Western civilization. While all these changes is just a spark, only exists in economicallydeveloped areas, but for Chinese social customs change and continuous transformation tomodern technology has had a profound impact.Early Republic of China is an important period for China’s social development, in the oldcustom of alternating periods of marriage customs change is particularly prominent andimportant, and more impressive, this paper summarizes predecessors, on the basis of thestudy, marriage customs of the period for the early Republican revolution multi-angle,multi-level comprehensive system analysis, trying to show the whole picture of the socialcustoms of marriage and marriage customs change a given early Republican objective and fairassessment.This paper first describes the changes in the early Republican concept of marriage,including the concept of marriage changes the changes, mate ideas, critique of the rise of theconcept of chastity and divorce phenomenon, explained the difference before and after theconcept of marriage from four aspects; Secondly, described the early Republican marriagecustoms change, including: the emergence of new wedding diversified media methods,changes in wedding dress; once again to explain the concept of marriage Republic ofmultiple causes of change; finally discusses the characteristics of marriage change.Marriage customs of the early Republic was a change in the transition from traditional tomodern civilization, reform and innovation, then, gradually civilized marriage and continueto develop, the marriage began to walk modernization. Although this period of developmentof modern marriage has its shortcomings, but the field of innovation and building socialcustoms has accelerated the process of modernization of Chinese society...