Abstract:
Despite large quantities of records of “peacemaking marriages” in such works as The Book of Later Han, The History of the Song Dynasty, and The History of the Ming Dynasty, the academic circle has taken a nearly unanimous disapproval of whether there were peace-making marriages in the East Han, the Song, and the Ming Dynasty. The reasons of the former scholars’ disapproval of the historical fact of peacemaking marriages in these dynasties were that peacemaking marriages in the dynasties didn't agree with the theory that a peacemaking marriage means a political marriage because those peacemaking marriages didn't contain contents of marriage and were not of the nature of political marriage. As a matter if fact, peacemaking marriage has many more contents than political marriage, which is one of the many means to realize peacemaking marriage. To conclude, there were no political marriages in the East Han, the Song, and the Ming Dynasty, but there were peacemaking marriages.
