Research On Issues Related To Family In The Qin Bamboo Slips

Qin bamboo slips is important material to our study of family and marriage in the Warring States.Taking Shuihudi Qin slips, Liye Qin bamboo slips, Yuelu Qin bamboo slips, Qin bamboo slips in Beijing University, Fangma Qin bamboo slips, combined with the Han bamboo materials and historical documents,we discuss these issues related to family and marriage from four aspects.The first chapter discusses the freemen family and slave family in Qin bamboo slips and the relationship of marriage involved. Registered marriage was official recognized. Divided by household size, Qin bamboo slips contain a variety of family types, and based on the nuclear family type.Some families have dependent population.In the section of slave family, I discusses the status of slave wives and children, which related to the severity of their identity and official slave crime. Private slaves belonging to the owner, so their families have no stability. Both official or private slaves can be ransomed by their families.The second chapter discusses the property relations in family. It consists of marital property relations, parent-child relations and property and property inheritance.Family property is dominated by the parent parental, but his wife’s dowry is preserved and can be taken away when the wife first reported her husband’s crime, or become abandoned. All properties are owned by the father when living with his son together;regardless of the nature father steal from his son can be seen as official patriarchal favoritism. "Houzi" is the official system to ensure "post-family" orderly succession.The third chapter analyzes the family Crime : "Gongshigao" and "Feigongshigao".From the accusers’ perspectives, the cases official accepted belong to the "Gongshigao", while in the cases younger generation are not allowed to sue their elders in a family belong to "Feigongshigao", however such crimes is not prohibited to complaint by personnel outside the home. "Jiazui" is defined from the perspective of the perpetrators, family members against each other. If one participant died before "Jiazui" detected, the crimes will no longer be held accountable.Chapter IV discusses the concept of marriage based on Rishu in Qin Bamboo slips and Qin bamboo slips in Beijing University. The main points are people pay attention to family stability but separated couples, women are expected to have the family virtuous characters, proper manners, honor their elders. Also, there are other identity requirements of marriage in Qin bamboo slips, such as men who marry the merchant’s daughter need to garrison the frontiers or border region, people who marry a fugitive should be imprisoned and so on.