Research On Marriage Customs In "Jin Ping Mei"

Jin Ping Mei is the first novel in the history of Chinese novels to focus on family life,Wedding customs and family relationships are an important part of it,they are the important activity position of all kinds of characters in the novel.Jin ping Mei has a very detailed and profound description of family relations,which vividly reproduces the subtle changes of the family relationship between merchants and bureaucrats in the late Ming Dynasty because of the impact of the commodity economy and personality liberation thoughts.Jin Ping Mei is highly concerned about marriage and family.The research on marriage custom and family relationship is of great significance to further explore the literary value of Jin Ping Mei.The thesis compares a series of marriage custom phenomena and family marriage relationship with the private family instruction,official etiquette law,laws and regulations,Taking the whole process of the development of marriage as the center of the thesis,the author makes a comprehensive study of the wedding,husband and wife,husband and concubine of "Jin Ping Mei" when they get a wife or concubine in the whole angle of marriage and family.The way of getting along with concubines and concubines,and the communication between male and female families.The thesis will be divided into the following three parts:The introduction briefly introduces the writing age of Jin Ping Mei,the author,the edition and the status of literature history,defines the meaning and content of the study of marriage custom in this paper,and clarifies the reason of the thesis.This paper summarizes the relevant research results in academic circles,and expounds the significance and value of this paper.The first chapter mainly discusses the wedding custom and its characteristics in Jin Ping Mei.The history and culture of the late Ming Dynasty,the system of etiquette and law,the folk custom and the social trend of thought deeply influence the development and evolution of the marriage ceremony in the Ming Dynasty."Jin Ping Mei" involves a variety of wedding customs-taking wives,concubinage,redundant son-in-law and cardigan,these marriage customs not only inherited the previous generation,but also had the characteristics of the late Ming Dynasty.It has an important role in indicating the character's status,character and even the plot of the story.The wedding custom shows the characteristics of the first family,the weak sense of chastity and the choice of spouse,the vulgarity is greater than the ritual and the law.The second chapter mainly analyzes the marriage custom and its characteristics in Jin Ping Mei because of the special family structure and the influence of commodity economy.The relationship between husband and wife,husband and concubine,wife and concubine,and concubine and concubine,both follow the way of abasement and inferiority of Confucian husband and wife.There is also the impact of commodity economy,personality liberation thoughts on the traditional concept of husband and wife."Jin Ping Mei" in-laws relationship shows the network structure relationship between family and society.Ximenqing is an important part of the broad space of social activities,which reflects the folklore of the late Ming Dynasty.