明朝政府对义夫持肯定的态度,虽一直提倡,而实际上被官方旌表者远比节妇、烈女之类要少。义夫的类型可以划分为为妻型、为子型、为父母型、儒家型四种,丧偶不娶者的原因众多,呈现出复杂的面貌。然而义夫现象的出现,并没有改变明代夫妻关系在社会法律和实际地位方面的不平等,而只能算是少数男子对妻子在情感上的平等体认。义夫多样化的类型反映出明代夫妻关系还受到孝、礼等儒家伦常理念的塑造和制约。在夫妻伦理方面,更多的还是传统保守的伦理关系占据了主导地位。 The Ming government’s affirmative attitude toward Yoshinoguchi, though always advocated, has in fact been much less affected by the official statements than by the women and girls. The types of Yifu can be divided into wife type, subtype, parental type and Confucian type, and there are many reasons for widowhood, showing a complicated appearance. However, the emergence of the Yifu phenomenon did not change the inequality of social and legal status of the husband and wife in the Ming Dynasty. It can only be regarded as the emotional equivalent recognition of a few men to their wives. The diversified types of Yifu reflect that the relationship between husband and wife in the Ming Dynasty was also shaped and restricted by the Confucian ethics, such as filial piety and ceremony. In the ethical aspects of husband and wife, more or traditional conservative ethics occupy the dominant position.