The Song Dynasty Women Remarry Law Studies

As is now the status of women gradually improved, woman’s rights in marriage, woman’s issues become a hot academic research. This article through to the song dynasty divorced women go, property problems and discusses relationship with their children.Throughout the history of woman’s remarriage, song dynasty women remarry is very worthy of our attention.The song dynasty is an important period in the history of our country, although the economic prosperity, but still can’t change the history of the short life expectancy. So many women after marriage at some stage and became a widow. In this case, women face widowed and remarry choice, and whether she will be an important impact on woman’s life in the future, therefore, the problem of woman’s remarriage in song dynasty in the research is of great significance.This article is divided into four parts, the first part of the song dynasty women divorce phenomenon and the reason.From the imperial clan women down to the ordinary people, remarry phenomenon is extremely common. This part of the main causes of divorced women remarried in song dynasty carried on the thorough analysis, including economic,legal, ideological and social culture and the cause of women themselves, etc.The second part of the legal conditions for the song dynasty women remarry, laws and regulations about woman’s remarriage, including the emperor imperial edicts, law and discipline.The third part of the legal consequences for women remarry. Mainly in song dynasty division of divorced woman’s property and raising problems with their children.Song dynasty divorced woman’s property problems from its divorce two aspects in this paper, the distribution of property and property inheritance, also analyzed the relation of song dynasty divorced women and children, divorced mother is still the children filial object, but also because of the shadow of son get well with seal.The fourth part is about people’s attitude towards women remarry, mainly from the rulers, scholar-bureaucrat, civilians, and the song dynasty the social public opinion aspects respectively expounds his views about woman’s remarriage.The fifth part is the legal status of the divorced women in the song dynasty and the enlightenment to modern, although the song dynasty women in marriage, property, etc, have certain rights, but on the whole, still serious lack of ownership, especially in the late southern song dynasty neo-confucianism influence is more and more big, the oppression of women is more and more serious. As for modern enlightenment, mainly from two aspects of content and enforcement were expounded.