敦煌籍帐中夫妻年岁差距过大现象初探——兼论敦煌地区收继婚存在的可能性

An Analysis of the Big Age Gap between Married Couples Revealed in Dunhuang Economic Documents

敦煌籍帐类文书中隐含了大量中古时期敦煌百姓婚姻家庭生活的信息,笔者据此对户籍中出现的夫妻年岁差距过大现象进行了探讨,界定了夫妻年岁差距过大的标准,分析这一现象出现的原因以及造成的后果,并推测中古时期敦煌民间社会存在收继婚的可能性。

The economic information on the wedding and documents discovered at Dunhuang family life of the Dunhuang people in manuscript caves include great amount of middle ancient times. Based on these original documents, we have explored the big age gap between husband and wife revealed in the marriage registration, defined the standard of great gap of age between huaband and wife in Dunhuang, and proposed the possibility of marriage by succession.