宋代的民间家礼建设

The construction of family etiquette in Song Dynasty

由于多方面的原因,宋代统治阶层充分认识到民间家礼的重要社会作用,一些著名的政治家、思想家都积极投身于民间家礼的建设之中,他们倾注大量精力制订家礼条文,宣传家礼规范,试图通过家礼的推行来重建封建宗法宗族制度,强化家族对家庭及家庭成员的约束力,从而达到稳固基层统治的政治目的。在制订具体家礼条文时对古礼、俗礼的抉择取舍,体现了宋代家礼思想的时代特征。

Because ofmany reasons,the rulers ofSong Dynasty had clear understanding about the folk family etiquette'great social effects.Some famous politicians and ideologists threw themselves into the construction of the folk family etiquette.They devoted their energies to working-out its items and to publicizing its criterions in order to reconstruct the feudal patriarchal clan system and to stabilize the ruling over the lower classes.The contradiction in either selecting the traditional etiquette or the folk etiquette reflected the characters of the ideology on family etiquette at that time.