19世纪收继问题研究——以安徽为中心

19世纪安徽社会中收继现象较为普遍,平均14%的家庭发生收继或出继行为,来解决一些家庭的"无后"的问题.从宗族角度讲,收继可以分为族内收继和族外收继两种情形,各需履行不同的收继程序,中上层家庭以族内收继为主,下层家庭则族外收继多于族内收继.国家和宗族对收继的前提、原则和被收继人在新旧家庭中的地位做出种种规定,但制度规范与人们的实际行为间存在着相当的差异.

Research on the problem of adoption in 19th century: focused on Anhui province

Adoption is universal in Anhui province in 19th century. There were 14% families adopted children to solve the problem of "wu hou". From the angle of clan, adoption can be divided into two types, inner-clan adoption and outer-clan adoption. Different adoption had different process. Most upper and middle level families chose inner-clan adoption and lower level families chose outer-clan adoption. Although nation and clans had made lots of rules for adoption, there were great divergence between the rules and people's real action.