The complete list of names of women's organizations in ancient China includes the character "yu"

Calling a woman "a certain family" is a product of the patriarchal era. It reflects the low status of women and can only be subordinate to men.

The "some" in "XX" is the woman's husband's surname.

It can also be called "XX", the first one is the husband's surname, and the last one is your own surname.

In ancient China, the custom of naming married women by their husband's family name took its prototype in the Han and Wei dynasties, and became a common practice in the late Southern Dynasties.

The reason is estimated to be directly related to the gradual formation of aristocratic family organizations. Especially in the Eastern Jin and Southern Dynasties, the gathering of the same clan within the scope of the manor has become the main form of family survival and development in the war-torn years.

One of the ways to enhance the cohesion of all members of the family community is to establish the wife's husband's surname as a title principle. It is obviously necessary, and its side effect will inevitably be that the wife's personal dependence on her husband's family will be further strengthened.

Li family, Wang family, Ah Li, Ah Wang... these are the "titles" left in official and private records for married women after the Five Dynasties.

However, this "title" can only be recognized if they are attached to the husband. If the husband is deceased, or for other reasons they need to appear as legal persons or independent persons in public places, official and private documents (such as

(documents, contracts), because it is common for many people to use the same surname, this oversimplified title is obviously difficult to identify.

The corresponding solution is to add the husband's surname in front of the wife's surname, such as Liu Wang's, Zhao Xing's, and Hong Li's literary examples. This not only indicates her married status, but also reminds her that she is a member of a certain surname and the surname of her mother's family.

It can be said that killing three birds with one stone.

The so-called custom of naming a woman with her husband's surname came into being under such established historical conditions to suit certain needs.

Song Lian, a genealogist in the early Ming Dynasty, once wrote a biography of "a chaste woman and a martyr woman" with titles such as "The Biography of Zheng Jiefu Huang" and "The Biography of Wang Jiefu Tang", or they are also known as "The Biography of Zhou Jie Nu Diao" and "The Biography of Xie Jie Fu".

", "Biography of the Martyrs of the Song Dynasty", etc. follow this example.

Compared with the previous "biographies of women" written by a certain wife and a certain family, this book is "unique".