太平天国寡妇再嫁问题辨析——兼论寡妇再嫁不能作为太平天国解放妇女之论据

The Widows’ Remarriage in the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom ——The Policy Cannot be Quoted as an Evidence to Prove that the Kingdom has Contributed to the Women’s Liberation

太平天国允许寡妇改嫁 ,且付诸一定的社会实践 ,在客观上对解放妇女起了一定的推动作用。但它只是广西客家妇女、壮族妇女再婚习俗在太平天国内一种理所当然的延续 ,并与江南民间妇女改嫁现象渐趋合流 ,使寡妇改嫁在太平天国内得到了地域、文化和心灵上的认同。洪秀全和太平天国实行的仍是封建妇女贞节观 。

The Taiping Heavenly Kingdom(1851-1864) has carried out a policy that the widow can get remarried,which has,to certain extent,promoted the women’s liberation.After a careful study we find,however,that the widows’ remarriage policy is just a natural continuity of a long lasting remarriage customs of the Hakkas and the Zhuang Nationality.From people’s regional and cultural psycho,the policy is widely recognized because it agrees with the social phenomenon of remarriage in the south areas of Yangtze River.But the fact is that Hong Xiuquan and his Kingdom clang to feudal moral code,demanding that a woman should remain chaste and faithful to her husband or betrothed,even after his death.Therefore,we cannot take the widows’ remarriage policy as an evidence to prove that the Kingdom has devoted to the women’s liberation.