Han and Jin Family Research

Author: Yan Aimin
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Publication Date: 2005-01-01
Features: A Study of Han and Jin Family is a work by Professor Yan Aimin of the School of History at Nankai University, reflecting the author's years of research insights. This manuscript conducts an in-depth and meticulous examination and study of some aspects less emphasized in traditional research fields from a social history perspective, such as marriage practices, kinship structures, sacrificial rituals and mourning attire systems, as well as inheritance systems. These rituals and customs closely related to daily life may seem trivial and insignificant compared to political, economic, and military history, yet the manuscript, meticulously analyzes and delves deeper, revealing that the Han and Jin periods were a special transitional stage in which old and new systems were intermingling. From this perspective, some major political issues in traditional research, such as the issue of maternal-in-law's rule in the Han Dynasty and the hereditary aristocratic system in the Wei and Jin periods, can be given reasonable explanations. "The contribution of sociology and anthropology to historiography" lies in broadening the scope of vision. Similarly, this manuscript introduces social history research methods into the study of ancient Chinese history, opening a new window and.