元代儿童生活初探

On Children's Lives in the Yuan Dynasty

元代是民族大融合时期,民族融合这一特点也反映在儿童的游戏、劳作、教育等方面。儿童人身安全易受到威胁,元朝政府对儿童的救济在继承前代的基础上也有所发展。封建生产关系仍占主导、社会文化习俗的稳定连续性是元代儿童生活与前代存在共性的重要原因,而少数民族统治及民族大融合又决定了元代儿童生活有其特色。

The Yuan dynasty is a period when national communication becomes more and more common;this communication is reflect- ed on children＇ s games, labor, education and so on. Children often suffer from dangers more easily than before, and the government, in heritage of its previous, offers more to orphans to protect their livelihood. Due to the still predominance of the feudal production rela- tion and the stability of socio-euhural practices, children＇ s life has a lot in common with that of previous dynasties, while the ethnic cultural infusion leads to the differences.