《诗经》反映了西周初年至春秋中叶的社会现实，《诗经》时代就定格在周朝这个历史阶段。《诗经》时代的婚姻既有对夏商蛮荒习俗的继承，又有秩序伦理的倡导和实践，形成了自由与禁限、平等与差异（性别歧视）、特殊与一般（特权）的婚姻特质。 The Book of Songs reflects the social reality from the early years of Western Zhou Dynasty to the middle of the Spring and Autumn Period. The era of The Book of Songs is fixed in the historical stage of Zhou Dynasty. In the era of The Book of Songs, the marriage not only inherited the wild custom of the Xia and Shang Dynasties, but also advocated and practiced the order ethics, forming the marriage characteristics of freedom and limitation, equality and difference (sexism), special and general (privilege).