明中后期民间社会婚姻观念的变迁

明中期以后,随着商品经济的发展和人们观念的变化,民间社会的婚姻状况也发生了明显变化。婚姻观念上,门第、出身在婚姻关系中被淡化,而财富却占有越来越重要的地位;婚姻类型上,寡妇改嫁婚、入赘婚、服役婚等非常态婚姻大量出现。这种婚姻状况折射出明代中后期社会风尚的变化及传统社会等级结构的松动。

Changes in the Notion on Folk Marriage in the Middle and Late Ming Dynasty

Along with the development of the commodity economy after the middle Ming Dynasty, the situation of the folk marriage changed. As far as the notion on marriage was concerned, family status was not thought highly of as much as before. On the contrary, wealth played a more and more important role. As for the marriage style, abnormal marriage styles appeared massively, especially in the lower classes. This kind of marriage situation reflected the changes of the social conception as well as the disintegration of rank structure.