清代东北旗妇守节现象考论

The Research on the Phenomenon of Manchu Women's Life Keeping Unmarried after Widowed in Northeast China during The Qing Dynasty

清代,东北旗人社会存在妇女守节现象。守节有常规形式,也有丈夫阵亡后妻子为其守节、未婚守节的贞女、殉夫从死的烈妇、以死抗拒奸污的节妇等特殊形式。影响清代东北旗妇是否选择守节,主要有节妇家庭经济条件、政治地位及朝廷政策、主流思想及舆论导向、舅姑父母对守节态度等四个因素。

It’s a fact that some Manchu women are keeping unmarried after widowed in northeast china during the Qing dynasty.There are conventional and unconventional forms how they lived during keeping unmarried after widowed,the unconventional forms are four,including women keeping unmarried for their KIA husbands,women keeping unmarried after their fiancé died,the suttee take their own life after widowed,and refuse to be raped in order to maintain so-called innocence after widowed.There are four main affecting factors that take action in whether or not women choose keeping unmarried after widowed： family economic conditions,political status and government policy,main ideology and the direction of public opinion,the attitude of widow’s mother,father,husband’s mother,husband’s father.