礼教对女性人生的设定及其用意

《礼记》等儒家礼学典籍,记录创制了中国礼教文化。旧时女性在娘家与婆家,人生两个阶段分别受到不同家庭文化背景、不同礼学内容的教化,承受了沉重的人性压抑;但也派生出维护封建家庭稳定、教育子女成功的正面作用。礼学教化培养出的婆母,为维护家族利益而维护礼教和宗法,进一步维护了家族稳定。礼教的设定意在对社会结构以家族为基础的宗法社会予以支撑,从而有效地维护封建社会的稳定与发展。

The Setting of Women's Life by Feudal Ethics and Rites and Its Intent

Book of Rites and the Confucian school books created the culture of Chinese feudal ethics.In the old times,women’s life was divided into two different stages by living in two different families-their parents’families and their husbands’families,during which they were subject to the enlightenment of different family and cultural backgrounds,different rituals and conventions,suffering from serious depression on their humanity.On the other hand,such a life also derived a feudal family stability and positive role in the successful education of children.The mothers,who had been cultivated through feudal ethics,strived to preserve the feudal ethical and patriarchal clan system with the intention to safeguard the interests of the family,maintaining the family stability meanwhile.Codes of feudal ethics were intended to support family-based patriarchal society,so as to effectively safeguard the stability and development of feudal society.