论晚明女性婚姻自主意识的萌发及其制度性阻滞

On Germination and Flexural Development of Feminine Consciousness in Late Ming Dynasty

嘉靖之后的晚明百年,随着商品经济的发展和社会风尚的嬗变,女性在婚姻问题上萌动了自发的女性意识,民间婚姻缔结过程中悔婚现象日益增多,但是,由于受到中国传统礼法思想的束缚,悔婚案件一旦经官,州县官还是会做出符合传统礼法的判决,女性在悔婚事件中常常处于十分不利的地位。由于中国几千年来的男权意识传统和顽固的制度性羁绊,使得中国古代社会缺乏促进女性身心发展的内在机制,晚明社会萌发的女性意识,只能极为艰难地在发展道路上步履蹒跚。

A hundred year in late Ming Dynasty after Jiajing emperor, the femnine bourgeoned spontaneous feminine consciousness about marriage problem with development of merchandise economy and transformation of social fashion, and penitential marriage phenomena increased gradually in the course of marriage conclusion in civilian society. However, because of bondage of traditional ceremony law ideology in China, officials of canton and county still adjudged penitential marriage case according with traditional ceremony law once it was judged by official, which caused the femnine be disadvantageous station on penitential marriage event. Because the tradition of a few thousand years＇ male power consciousness and stubborn system fetters, which made immanent mechanism of promoting the feminine body and mind development lacking in China＇s archaic society, budding feminine consciousness in late Ming Dynasty society could only teeter on the development road.