Research On Buyi Minority Marriage Custom And Marriage Legislation Under Perspective Of Materialism

The principle of Marx’s historical materialism points out that,a certain social economic base determines the superstructure of the nature and basic content, the superstructure with the change of social production mode change. At the same time, between superstructure component of each other is mutual influence, interaction, specific to the marriage law marriage custom and national level Buyi’s is no exception.The Buyi people are widely distributed in China’s Yunnan, Guizhou, Sichuan and other places in history, most of these areas in the mountains gully, inconvenient transportation, lack of education development in the region is basically living a a relatively closed based on rice farming in small-scale peasant; and on this basis, the formation of the main components of a family, clan, village, palm group Union, the ties of kinship and geopolitical society organizations to maintain production order, the local community. On this basis, the formation of regulation, including mate selection, engagement, marriage, divorce and wedding customs of the family relationship with national characteristics; due to the guiding philosophy of the political domination of the traditional Chinese agricultural society and the actual needs, the state marriage laws that recognize customs the status of the customs in real life alternative to the country’s formal marriage laws, in essence, playing an adjustment the Buyi marriage and family relations.After the stage of history in imperial politics, industrialization and modernization has become the new national regime on Chinese society dedicated transformation of the salient features. Along with industrialization and modernization from the sinking of the state power and the establishment of grass-roots political organization, and development of market economy, society as a whole in the process of change and development, thus Buyi traditional social status of the organization, functions by corresponding impact; the same time, due to the improvement of transport and communication facilities, as well as the development of education, the closed state of the the Buyi social tradition has been broken, more and more people out of the field of agricultural production through various channels, to the vast outside world, to accept and bring back new ideas and concepts of the external, making the the Buyi production lifestyles of change. Buyi people to produce lifestyle changes to their traditional wedding customs to get passed at the same time, from the content and form to the status of function occurred corresponding changes in The concept of mate selection criteria and methods have become more diversified, the spouse of the increasing scope; a corresponding increase in the age of marriage, the procedures of marriage is becoming more and more simplified, the Longqiao customs gradually change; the status of women has improved so much divorce can be accepted by people, the understanding of the nature of marriage has changed; a gradual shift from the concept of the fertility of the many sons gradually shift to the prenatal and postnatal care, family in the form of extended family structure gradually changes to the core family. Along with the modern state from the precepts of the national level the establishment and development, the face Buyi reality of social conditions and traditional wedding customs, traditions, on the one hand, the legal system of the national level is not as traditional agricultural society in the feudal dynasty precepts the same fully functional gives the return to secular life customary law will regulate the relationship of marriage, not across the board to completely exclude the existence of the Buyi marriage customs. Attitude to adopt an attitude of respect, to be protected to a certain extent. Taken on the specific legal content, according to the actual situation of different regions and periods in the general principle under the guidance of some modifications. In the course of historical development since the founding of new China, the relationship between the performance of a "unity of the special" to "development near the ultimate reality of the unity.The Buyi the customs and the National Marriage changes history of revelation, our future minority marriage legislation must consider the appropriate factors, Buyi marriage legislation must be the theory of Marxism as a guide to respond to a harmonious society to build positive significance, must be in harmony with its development of national culture, and must be consistent with its economic development.