Women with husband's name of the feminist movement

History into the modern era, the trend is gradually open, especially the Hundred Days Reform led to the emergence of the feminist movement, which will inevitably lead to the custom of women's title and change. Qing Guangxu thirty-four years (1908) by the Ministry of Civil Affairs, "the investigation of household regulations," Article 16 provides: "name grid, such as women are inconvenient to fill in, the woman to the family name, the word to be the longest female characters, such as the word instead." Xuantong first year (1909) the Ministry of Civil Affairs of the Beijing investigation of the household rules for the implementation of Article 35, there are the same provisions. It can be seen that at that time there were already women registered with complete names, but most of them were still called Li's, Wang's and Li's, etc. After the founding of the Republic of China, the Beijing government did not have the right to register women. After the founding of the Republic of China, the Beijing government did not specifically regulate this, but the tradition of the wife taking her husband's name continued to be recognized by customary law. The wife's title is especially inconvenient if the couple has the same surname. For example, published in 1924, "China's civil customary book" in the "paperwork, such as Li Li's, Liu Liu's, etc., a few times," the reality. The book in the compilation of folk widow husband habits, and "the woman is still from the former husband's name" of the introduction, I see that although "from one and end" of the feudal patriarchal rules due to changes in the times have changed, but the wife from the husband's name of the tradition still has its strength.

In May 1929, the Nanjing National Government published "Civil Law", the fourth part of the third section of the first thousand articles, for the first time on the "husband and wife of the title of the surname" made the legal expression: "wife to its original name to the husband's name. The husband shall take his wife's surname as his own. However, the parties concerned shall not be bound by this rule unless they agree otherwise." In 1933 and 1944, the Ministry of the Interior has been amended and published "name change and surname rules", its Article 4 provides that the conditions of the petition for the title of the surname must be "non-Han and the title of the Han surname", it can be seen that this is the "husband and wife of the title of the surname" of the only exception.