The Study On The Family Transformation From Tradition To Modern In Wen Zhou

Family is a patriarcha lunit of blood community which is based on ancestral identity.Take Wenzhou’s family as an example, in its development process since the Song and Ming, the patriarch, family rules, ancestral clan fields, school tutoring and other institutional elements of family had supported family organization stretches from economy,politics, culture and education.After entering the modern society, Wenzhou’s family has changed in the organizational and ideological belief system. In terms of the organizational system, the traditional pedigree compiling,temple builting, industry operating and other activities still continued, and added a lot of new content, showing the characteristics of "changing within tradition". In terms of the ideological beliefs, Christian faith and family’s traditional ideolog about ancestor worship had a sharp culture conflict. Under the influence of Western Christian forces, Christians separated form family and developed to independent groups, which was called Christian family. This phenomenon showing the characteristics of "changing beyond tradition". Between inheritance and transformation, traditional family began to transform from tradition to modern.