宋代幼儿生养与救助述论

A Review of the Infant's Bearing and Relief in the Song Dynasty

两宋时期,封建政府重视幼儿的生养与保护,采取多种措施对幼儿进行救助和保护。宋代的幼儿救助,从贫困家庭的孕妇妊娠、新生儿出生,到灾荒、饥歉年间幼儿的遗弃,都有明确的救助和保护措施,而且宋代还设有官方幼儿济助机构。宋代的幼儿救护政策,对后世,特别是明清时期的幼儿救助有深远影响。

The feudal governments in the Northern Song Dynasty and Southern Song Dynasty attached importance to the infants' bearing and relief and they took measures of various kinds to succor and protect the infants. The Song Dynasties had clear measures for such relief from the pregnancy of the mothers to the birth of the new-born in poor families and to the abandonment of the infants during famine or crop failure years. In addition, the feudal governments in the Song Dynasties also set up official relief institutions. The policy of infant's relief in the Song Dynasty had an important influence on later generations, especially on the infants' relief in the Ming and Qing Dynasties.