What are the specific provisions of the marriage system in the Tang Dynasty?

The legal age of marriage in the Tang Dynasty, the first year of Emperor Tang Taizong Zhenguan set: "male 20 years old, female 15 years old" can be married; Xuanzong Kaiyuan 22, Emperor Tang Xuanzong in order to increase the population, the age of marriage is lowered to "15 years old, female 13 years old".

The first step in the establishment of marriage in the Tang Dynasty is to set up a "marriage book". Because the Tang Dynasty law provides that elders can arrange the marriage of their children, the children if they do not obey, the law provides that the Joe responsible for one hundred, therefore, decided that the Tang Dynasty marriage is not free love, generally does not reflect the personal will of young men and women.

In addition to the "marriage book", the Tang Dynasty, due to the influence of the marriage customs of the Wei, Jin and North and South Dynasties, the sale of marriage is very common. According to the "New Tang Book - Gao Jian biography" records: the marriage of the Tang Dynasty: "Marriage must be more goods, so people called the sale of marriage.

The Tang Dynasty on the different levels of marriage is limited: "Tang Law Review" said: "people have even, color class must be the same, good and lowly both different, why marriage", that is, everyone should have a spouse, but must be the right family, since there is a difference between the noble and lowly, can not be married. Tang law also stipulates that if a lowly person marries a virtuous woman, he will be sentenced to one and a half years' imprisonment. The Tang Dynasty prohibited marriage between close relatives. Tang law prohibited marriage between people with the same surname and cousins, and sentenced them to imprisonment or caning if they violated the law. The Tang Dynasty allowed widows to remarry, Tang Taizong Zhenguan first year of the imperial edict: "after the mourning period of women, can remarry".

Concubinage was legal in the Tang Dynasty, and the Tang law stipulated that a servant girl who was favored by her master and had a child could be accepted as a concubine; if the wife was over 50 years old and did not have children, the husband could take a concubine.