明中叶以前小说中的择偶观

On Concepts of Choosing a Spouse in Novels Before the Mid-Ming Dynasty

16世纪的明代中叶是中国古代文化发生分化与裂变的时期,尽管此前封建社会内部的文化思想并不是铁板一块,但从没有受到过如此大的冲击,所以相对来说比较稳定。本文以小说中经常会出现的择偶现象为考察对象,以当事人择偶时的外部条件和备选对象的自身条件为切入点,对汉代到明中叶以前小说中的择偶观念进行了梳理,大致勾画出了几乎长达两千年间人们的择偶标准。

The mid-Ming Dynasty in the 16th century is a period of ancient Chinese culture fierce fissile and differentiation, from which the culture in previous feudal society never suffered. Therefore the internal culture in previous feudal can keep stable although it is not a monolithic. Taking the phenomena of choosing a spouse often appearing in novels as the study object, and taking the external condition and target＇s own condition when one choose a spouse as the point, this paper reviewed and sorted out the concepts of choosing a spouse in the previous novels from the Han-Dynasty to the Mid-Ming Dynasty, broadly outlined standards of choosing a spouse between people during almost two millennium.