清末民国时期留隍与惠安两地妇女集体自杀共性探析

An Analytical Study on Generalities of Collective Suicide of the Women in Liuhuang and Hui'an in the Late Qing Dynasty and the Republic of China

清末民国时期,留隍和惠安两地的妇女集体自杀在自杀的方式、自杀主体的特征、自杀的组织、自杀的干预效果及自杀的原因方面表现出极大的共性。这说明两地妇女自杀并非偶然而是社会制度使然,如不彻底变革现存社会制度就无法遏制此类恶性事件的持续发生。

The collective suicide of women in Liuhuang and Hui＇an during the late Qing Dynasty and the Republic of China shares much commonness in the ways,features of principal parts,organizations,intervention effects and causes.It indicates that the cause for the suicide of women of the two places is not an accident,but the social system,and that it cannot halt the continued occurrence of such vicious incidents if there is no thorough reform to the existing social system.