Chinese marriage - Inter-clan marriage and antithetic marriage

This article is in need of attention. You can help Wikipedia by editing it into a better article. Please also consider changing this notice to be more specific. Please remove this notice after the article has been expanded. Details are on this talk page or at Wikipedia:Requests for expansion. Traditionally marriage in ethnic Chinese societies (婚姻, pinyin: hūn yīn) has been an arrangement between families. Originally Chinese culture allowed for romantic ...

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• Chinese marriage - Introduction
• Chinese marriage - Marriage in a Confucian Context
• Chinese marriage - Prehistoric Chinese marriages
• Chinese marriage - Marriages in Early Societies
• Chinese marriage - Sibling marriages
• Chinese marriage - Inter-clan marriage and antithetic marriage
• Chinese marriage - Maternal marriage and Monogamy
• Chinese marriage - Traditional Marriage Rituals
• Chinese marriage - Reference

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Chinese marriage - Marriages in Early Societies. In traditional Chinese thinking people in "primitive" societies did not marry, but had sexual relationships with one and other indiscriminately. Such people were thought to live like other animals, and they did not have the precise concept of motherhood, fatherhood, sibling, husband and wife, and gender, not to mention match-making and marriage ceremony. Part of the Confucian "civilizing mission" was to define what it meant to be a Father or a Husband, and to teach people to respect the proper ...

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Chinese marriage, Chinese marriage - Introduction, Chinese marriage - Marriage in a Confucian Context, Chinese marriage - Prehistoric Chinese marriages, Chinese marriage - Marriages in Early Societies, Chinese marriage - Sibling marriages, Chinese marriage - Inter-clan marriage and antithetic marriage, Chinese marriage - Maternal marriage and Monogamy, Chinese marriage - Traditional Marriage Rituals, Chinese marriage - Reference

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