Village Family Changes In Northwest Of China

Family has come in a long history in China. Chinese have a secular rely on their familieswhich base on blood. In the process of family changes, in order to develop family stretches,family members satisfy their various needs with the help of family-actions. The authorinvestigates family-actions in village H and analysis the process of family changes and itscharacteristics. Then the author figure out the trend of family changes in future at last step.The main research of this paper is through the investigation of the specific experience in themembers of the family of the village H’s family activities, analysis the process andcharacteristics of the family change, thinking this future family changes in village H. Accordingto field survey data, the family changes of the village H can be divided into four stages: the firststage for the traditional family in the period of the society, from before the founding of the threehundred or so, to the land revolution in1933. This stage of the family is given priority to withthe heads of the authority, hold family worship, family members with rich with humans,interdependence, members of the family in giving security at the same time also to beconstraints.; the second phase are the families of the land reform period,1933to1953, during therural resource structure was significant impact, lead to formalize the disintegration of the family,but it always exists substantial family activities and to continue; the third stage, for the familiesof the agricultural cooperation movement period time of1953and1979, in the social change, theH village family members on the current system flexibility,"guo fen" and so on to the families ofthe innovative activities to maintain the growth and development of the family; the fourth stageis family, since the reform and opening up since1979. Reform and opening up policy liberatedthe bondage of land for farmers, family members are mostly migrant workers, in the meantime,mutual trust based on kinship still makes family cooperation become the main choice of familymembers. Family activity varies in forms and contents.In village H family changing process, the formal family gradually faded, and familyactiveities begin to toward practical utility. Blood, therefore, is to attract and rely on the familymembers have certain values, with members of the family of such values, faced with difficultieshabitual tend to the family, although family after change, but substantial family activities isalways there. Family members tend to benefit more, pay less of a win-win choice, namely familycooperation, and cooperation benefit and successful reinforce these values. Family members of this kind of attitude or tendencies, help in the different historical conditions led to a substantialgrowth family. Family is made up of members of the family, therefore, a series of microscopicinteraction formed in daily life, and family form certainly applies to specific members of thefamily, the interaction between members of the family and the continuous terrain model withfamily, so cycle and cycle again, even with the change time, the family will also still thrives.