明清时期婚姻立法的调整与基层社会的稳定

明清时期,为了维护社会稳定,封建政权极为重视婚姻立法建设。特别是在经济发展和社会变迁加剧的背景下,国家法定的合法婚姻和民间社会的习惯婚姻产生了许多矛盾与冲突,诸如婚姻论财问题、非法强娶和典卖妻子等行为,都严重违反了国家的婚姻立法规定。在这种情况下,明清封建政权为了维护社会稳定的需要,采取了向民间习惯让步的方式,着手对婚姻立法中部分不合时宜的条款,进行了某些调整。同时,民间社会也采取了向国家立法局部妥协的办法,从而实现了国家与民间社会的良性互动,维护了社会的基本稳定,巩固了封建政权的统治。

Readjustment of Marriage Laws and the Stability of the Grass-root Society in the Ming and Qing Dynasties

For the purpose of maintaining social stability,the feudal regimes of the Ming and Qing Dynasties attached great importance to the making and readjustment of marriage laws.With the development of economy and social changes,legal marriage endorsed by state laws and certain marriage practices common in the grass-root society went into sharp conflict.Under such circumstances,the Ming and Qing regimes made compromise with the customary practices in the grass-root society,they made certain readjustments of some outmoded clauses of the marriage laws so as to maintain social stability.On the other hand,the grass-root society also made certain compromises with the state laws.As a result,some kind of benign interaction between the state and the grass-root society was achieved,social stability was maintained and the rule of the feudal regime was consolidated.