The article confutes the misreading of "melancholy" in Li Qingzhao s Ci - poetry, whose connotations were considered as her repugnance for supposed her husband Zhao Mingcheng s concubinage in the studies on Li Qingzhao in the recent years.

This paper aims to find out the social roots of concubinage, a long-standing custom in ancient China, and analyzes the laws and features of the phenomenon.

Concubinage System is such a case: it did not reach a basic consensus through dialogue, but rather caused increasingly fierce disputes between the two parties.

Concubines Recorded in the Dunhuang and Turfan Documents;

The research object of this paper is the concubine s civil legal status in the family of Qing Dynasty.

Song Dynasty was an important transition period in history, likewise, the great change took place in the concubines’status and life state of the women of lower floor.