清代巴县孀妇的再嫁问题探讨

清代加大了对守节妇女旌表的力度,但与此同时,大量处于社会底层的孀妇面对生存的压力,夫家的逼迫和他人的欺凌,选择了再嫁。而清代因为溺女之风盛行造成男女性别比例严重失调,有相当比例的适婚男子不能正常娶妻,这无疑又使孀妇再嫁变得更为普遍。这一切在巴县档案中都有所体现。

Discussion on Widows' Remarriage in the Qing Dynasty

Despite the increasing honors granted to chaste women in the Qing Dynasty,a large number of widows,facing the pressure to survive at the bottom of society,compelled by families of their husbands or bullied by others,selected remarrying.Meanwhile,the prevailing customs of female infanticide in the Qing Dynasty caused a serious imbalance in the sex ratio;as a result,a significant proportion of men of marriage age could not have wives.This,in turn,undoubtedly brought about more cases of the widow remarriage.And all this can be found in the Archives of Baxian County.