3《大地三部曲》中主要人物的土地伦理选择 ....................... 17
3.1 土地的重要性................................. 17
3.2 大地的忠实拥护者 ................................ 19
4《大地三部曲》中主要人物的亲缘伦理选择 ................................. 29
4.1 传统价值观——孝道 ................... 29
4.2 孝道的执行者................................... 31
5《大地三部曲》中主要人物的婚恋伦理选择 .......................... 41
5.1 婚恋模式的更迭 .................................... 41
5.2 包办婚姻的接受者 ..................... 43
5 The Main Characters’ Ethical Choices on Marriage in The House of Earth Trilogy
5.1 The Change of Marriage and Love Modes
Marriage and love are the prerequisite for the formation of the family, and also a part of social life. The changes of their mode are closely related to the changes of the social life in the same era and they influence each other. At the beginning of the 20th century, with the introduction of Western culture and the gradual opening of China’s national gates, a series of changes occurred in social productivity, lifestyle, and ideological concepts at that time. Among them, the traditional Chinese marriage concept, which has lasted for more than 2000 years, has also been strongly impacted in this era of the alternation of the old and the new, thus showing a new atmosphere.
In traditional Chinese society, romantic love was no part of what a husband and a wife expected in a marriage.[56]73And arranged marriage was the main way for men and women to get married. Under this mode, the children’s marriage is completely handled by the parents. In the process of parents choosing marriage partners for their children, the most important criterion is that the economic status and social status of the two families should be equal. There are two reasons for the emergence of this criterion in traditional Chinese society: First, in order to maintain the purity of their lineage and maintain their noble identity and status, the ruling class used the marriage relationship of the same class to consolidate the hereditary rule of the family, or to expand their sphere of influence. Second, determined by the feudal hierarchy and influenced by the economic consciousness of small-scale peasants, the majority of the peasant class can only find a spouse in their own class. What they pursue is a stable and down-to-earth marriage life, and they are powerless and unwilling to climb up the strong and attached to the rich. Finally, the goal of maintaining the feudal hierarchy was realized. This standard has extremely strict requi rements for the ethical identities of both men and women, and there are also many drawbacks. The disadvantages of the old marriage system can be summarized as follows: First, the parents completely arrange the marriage of
