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From The Perspective Of Gender, The Fertility Etiquette And Customs From The Pre-Qin To The Han Dynasties Are Explored

Posted on:2019-07-20Degree:MasterType:Thesis
Country:ChinaCandidate:J J GuoFull Text:PDF
GTID:2435330548964802Subject:Special History
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The birth of offspring is an important task for mankind.Custom of reproductive worship and praying,birth is the embodiment of the concept of fertility.The period from the pre Qin period to the Han Dynasty was an important period for the development of China's history.Reproductive worship from prehistory did not disappear in historical development,but praying customs and conservation exists in various forms,has been spread to the present.On the basis of previous studies,this article mainly uses the documents of the passing of the world,and uses the investigation materials of ethnic ethnography and cultural anthropology in China to supplement the evidence,and probes into the changes and special points of the worship of reproduction and seeking children and children in the period of the period of the Qin Dynasty and the Han Dynasty,and probes into the social sex from the period of the Qin Dynasty to the Han Dynasty.The influence of the system.This paper holds that the cause of reproduction worship is mainly due to the ignorance of reproductive knowledge in the primitive society and the strong desire for offspring.The concept of praying children is based on the improved reproductive worship here,is the result of the development of reproductive worship.Reproductive worship has experienced the process of female worship,male worship to the adoration of sexual intercourse.Women worship including goddess worship,worship of vulva.Male worship includes male worship and male root worship.Male reproductive ability confirms the progress of human reproductive knowledge and the improvement of the male status.The method of praying children include illicit sexual relations,plants and gods.It also contains the means of reproduction worship and the way of witchcraft.Life etiquette including Coming-of-age ceremony,wedding and funeral.it can still see the effects of children and the concept of "birth is a virtue".The folk concept of fertility including many sons,praying for the man explores the origin and influence of patriarchal ideology.The concept of "child breeding" mainly focuses on the importance of paying attention to the gift of life,the custom of the birth of the child and the symbolic meaning of the conservation etiquette and custom.The ceremony of the prenatal education is to ensure the safety of the mother and child through strict regulations on the diet of the parturient and the words and deeds.But it also includes strict restrictions on the behavior of the woman himself.Reflecting the thinking of social treatment of women's physiological characteristics in the concept of fertility.The gift of prenatal education includes attaching importance to children's conduct,health,and avoiding delivery women' dystocia.It is the importance and fear of the process of childbirth.However,people in the expectation of a lot of social environment and certain customs to drowning children.Drowning and killing women and the first children is often the way the patriarchal society pays attention to boys and guarantees the purity of the family's blood.It is the imbalance of social status between men and women.Drowning and killing children born in May 5th is a reflection of people's belief in traditional customs.It has a great relationship with the lack of people against the natural ability of natural disaster.The symbolic meaning of the conservation etiquette is through the analysis of the rituals of birth and name in the period of the pre Qin period to the Han Dynasty.These rituals include blessing newborns also embodies the ideological gender division,patriarchal means.The contents of the etiquette and custom include the rituals of birth and name.Through the analysis,these ceremonies not only contain the symbolic meaning of the healthy growth of the newborn,but also the social and gender system of the Qin and Han Dynasties,that is,the gender division of labor,the men and women,the men and women.
Keywords/Search Tags:Reproductive worship, The concept of praying children, Gender system
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