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Manchu Village is in Xing'anmeng, Inner Mongolia. It is only one Manchu Autonomous County using nomadic herding in China. Manchu people in here are descendants of retinues and slaves of Qing dynasty princesses, when Qing dynasty implements political marriage policy. Local Mongolian people call them<>. In hundred years, they become different from Manchu People in other places, as they added Mongolian racial characteristics in their language, custom, marriage system and social organization. In the Manchu research field, Mongolian Manchu has not been studied yet. While, the Khoriqin Mongolian people losing their traditional customs, the Manchurians are still restoring that customs. So study Manchurian custom has great value for Khoriqin Mongolian Culture Study. Marriage custom is main component of folklore studies. It covers customs, oral literature, legal and other aspects of cultural contents. Therefore, by the study of Manchurian Marriage custom, we can know about the local economic development, social changes, heritage and update of customs, cultural development, moral status and etc.This paper is mainly consisted of preface, three main chapters and conclusion.Preface mainly talks about the significance and academic value of this topic, the applied means of study, the researching situations in this field in the past and main reference materials.Chapter one introduces the origin of Manchurian in Manchu Village. About their origins, the most widely circulated legend called <>. I also use documents like <> and <> and I conclude that the time Manchurian came Mongol was before Manchu people enter the Shang Haiguan.Chapter two mainly analyzes marriage structure of Manchurian in Manchu Village. Including engagement, feast, giving gifts, the groom wearing a courtesy, met with the bride, farewell wine, the bride back to her parents, sharing a cup of wine, visit the bride and other short-term processes. Although they mixed with Mongolian for a long time, because of their unique history and status, they are different from Mongolian people and has own features.Chapter three researches the custom of giving gifts.In the Conclusion part, I draw the conclusion that from the perspective of ethnic assimilation and integration, mostly economic and political weak ethnic group assimilated by powerful one. But Manchurian in Manchu Village is an example of the contrary. In Qing dynasty, Manchu was powerful than Mongols in economy and politics. However, due to special historical reasons and geographical location, Manchurian in Manchu Village deep integrated with Mongolian people and absorbed Mongolian customs. So they formed a folk system that similar with Khoriqin Mongolian custom and has own characteristics.