唐、宋之际,社会风尚发生了显著的变化。从唐代中期以后尤其是到了宋代,社会生产力有了许多发展。社会阶级结构也从唐代的门阀士族和部曲、奴客、贱民、番匠、奴婢等旧格局转变为宋代的官僚地主和佃客、差雇匠、和雇匠、人力、女使等新的格局。周围各少数民族特别是契丹、党项、女真等族一度强盛建立起幅员广大的国家。由于这三个因素的影响,人们的生活方式发生了许多变化。这些变化表现在物质生活如饮食、家具、衣服、装饰、房屋、交通工具等方面,又表现在精神生活如礼仪,信仰、文艺、思想等方面。人们在物质生活和精神生活各个方面的爱好和习惯,便构成了这一时期的社会风尚,婚姻礼仪是其中一部分。在婚姻方面,宋朝社会上虽然门第观念并未消除,但人们对于门第的看法却出现了相当大的 Tang and Song Dynasties, social fashion has undergone significant changes. Since the mid-Tang Dynasty and especially to the Song Dynasty, there have been many developments in social productivity. The social class structure also changed from the old pattern of gatekeeper tribe and minzu, slaves, untouchables, fanciers and slaves in the Tang Dynasty to bureaucrat landowners and tenants in the Song dynasty, poor craftsmen, and new employers such as craftsmen, men and women pattern. The ethnic minorities around, especially the Khitan, party items, Jurchen and other clans were once strongly established large-scale countries. Due to the influence of these three factors, many changes have taken place in people’s way of life. These changes are manifested in the material life such as diet, furniture, clothes, decoration, houses, transportation and other aspects, as well as in spiritual life such as etiquette, belief, literature and art, and thought. People’s hobbies and habits in all aspects of material life and spiritual life constitute the social fashion of this period, and the marriage etiquette is a part of it. In the aspect of marriage, although the concept of door in the Song Dynasty society did not disappear, people’s views on the door appeared quite large