先秦政治婚姻初探

就族类、中原诸侯国关于夷狄的概念及国势而言,先秦政治婚姻大致可分为七种类型;先秦各国主要出于结交军事同盟、恃大国以图存、取人之国、巩固盟约、解除兵威、酬恩报德等目的而联姻,但各种联姻的性质却不尽相同。先秦政治婚姻呈现出多元化、多方位,“媵”婚现象比较突出,小国往往被婚姻大国所灭,强国干预弱国内政等特点。尽管先秦时期的政治婚姻与汉唐和亲有很大差别,但前者对后者的影响却是非常明显的。

A Study of the Political Marriage in the Preqin Times

In view of national prestige and the concept of same clan or foreign tribe held by prince states in the Central Plains, the political marriage in the Pre-Qin times can be roughly classified into sceven types; marriage alliances between different states during that times generally had following aims: to form a military alliance, to rely on a more powerful state for survival, to annex other states, to strengthen a treaty of alliance, to relieve military threat, to return kindness and virtues, etc. Marriage alliances had differet nature and took on pluralistic and multi-dimensional characteristics: the practice of accompanying the bride to her new home prevails, smaller states were always wiped out by greater ones of the marriage alliance, and the strong states always interfered the internal affairs of the weak. Though big differences exist between political arriage in the Pre-Qin times and the marriage alliaces in Han and Tang dynasties, the former obviously had a profound influence on the latter.