明清徽州女子婚龄浅探——以地方志资料为中心的考察

On women's marriageable age of Huizhou in the Ming and Qing Dynasties

婚龄是反映明清徽州婚姻习俗、观念和缔结行为的重要内容,本文主要采用地方志资料,运用统计分析的方法,从女子聘龄、初婚年龄、童养媳抱养及合婚年龄等方面对明清徽州女子婚龄状况予以量化考察,探寻其普遍性和差异性,并进一步揭示影响女子婚龄的因素,分析女子婚龄的高低对徽州女性及其家庭的影响。

Marriageable age is one of the important contents which reflect the marriage customs,marriage ideas and marriage behaviors of Huizhou. This article adopts the local chronicle materials mainly, and uses the method of statistical analysis to investigate women＇s marriageable age state of Huizhou in the Ming and Qing Dynasties from such respects as women＇s engaged age,age of first marriage, age that the child bride was adopted and child bride＇s marriage age etc. At the same time, this article seeks the universality and difference of women＇s marriageable age, To be further, announces the factors influencing women＇s marriageable age, and analyses all kinds of impact of marriageable age state on women and their families.