东汉、宋、明三代无“和亲”说质疑

An Inquiry into the View of There Being No Peace-making Marriages in the East Han,the Song and the Ming Dynasty

关于东汉、宋、明三代有无"和亲"的问题,长期以来学界几近一致持否定态度,然而在《后汉书》《宋史》《明史》等文献中却有大量的"和亲"记载。以往学者之所以要否认这几个朝代的"和亲"史实,主要因为这几个朝代的"和亲"不含婚姻内容,不具有政治联姻的性质,与"和亲"即政治联姻这种"和亲"理论不符。其实,"和亲"的内涵比政治联姻广泛得多,"和亲"可以通过政治联姻来实现,但"和亲"并不必然是政治联姻,政治联姻只是实现"和亲"的诸多途径之一。故我们可以说东汉、宋、明三代无政治联姻,却不能说无"和亲"。

Despite large quantities of records of ＂peace-making marriages＂ in such works as The Book of Later Han, The History of the Song Dynasty, and The History of the Ming Dynasty, the academic circle has taken a near- ly unanimous disapproval of whether there were peace - making marriages in the East Han, the Song, and the Ming Dynasty. The reasons of the former scholars＇ disapproval of the historical fact of peace-making marriages in these dynasties were that peace-making marriages in the dynasties didnt agree with the theory that a peace-making mar- riage means a political marriage because those peace-making marriages didnt contain contents of marriage and were not of the nature of political marriage. As a matter if fact, peace-making marriage has many more contents than po- litical marriage, which is one of the many means to realize peace-making marriage. To conclude, there were no po- litical marriages in the East Han, the Song, and the Ming Dynasty, but there were peace-making marriages.