The Study Of Clan In Moden Hunan Province

The clan is one kind of social group organized according to the certainstandard, which takes the family as the foundation and takes the bloodrelationship relations as the link and takes the region relations as thebacking.It is well known, traditional China is an ancestor legal system state.The patriarchal clan's history is well- established, can be traced back to thelast stage of primitive society-patriarchal clan commune time. In thedevelopment of China, the clan ideological ingrained in the people'sbrains constantly. Although the hunan being passes through from onedynasty to another, the society vicissitudes greatly, and the clan system andculture also is having certain variations, especially during the moderntimes, the clan has suffered the critique and the impact time and time again,being weakened day by day. But the clan is still preserved by its deepsuitability.By far, the idea and thoughts of the clan still stayed in people'smind with the varied degrees, even the clan is reviving in certainplaces.The modern times falls in, the Hunan province was under the fiercesociety change. Adapted to this, the clan in modern Hunan province alsostarted to evolve. However, until now it is the blank domain regardingabout the important regional research. In view of this,the article draws upfrom the social vicissitude angle of view to give a systematic,full-scale andmacroscopic inspection in order to increase our knowledge of the modernHunan society's evolution process and regularity.This article altogether is divided into seven major parts:Introduction part: Outline the topic selected basis, research dynamicand major point innovations and deficiencies of the article.Second part: Elaborates the clan's concept, connotation and thetraditional Hunan Clan's exterior shape structure.Third part: Elaborates the modern Hunan Clan's condition and itsevolution process.It is divided into five periods to elaborate on this topic.First, from the end of the Opium War to the eve of XiangJun formed(1840-1852). The Hunan clan showed signs of decline because invaded by foreign capitalism and influenced by the TaiPing rebellion.Second,during the era of Hunan Xiangjun (1852-1895),for the growing up of theXiangjun, the Hunan clan came across a development opportunity, theclanship has been enhanced. Third,between the end of the Sino-JapaneseWar of 1894-1895 to the eve of the Chinese Communist Party founded(1895-1921). During this period, due to the impact of social change suchas the Reform Movement, the New Culture Movement, the May 4thMovement and so on. The Hunan clanship suffered criticism again andagain. Fourth, between the establishment of the Communist Party ofChina and before the establishment of the Nanjing National government(1921-1927).Alter the founding of the Communist Party of China, theclan became one of the revolutionary targets,particularly with the rise ofthe Peasant Movement in Hunan, Hunan Village clan system experiencedan unprecedented blow and run to decline.Filth, The Hunan clan in theperiod of the national government.During this period, the war continuedwithout cessation, especially with the influence of the AgrarianRevolutionary struggle,which leaded by the Communist Party of China,Hunan clanship suffered a tremendous blow and destruction.Fourth part: Elaborates the modern Hunan Clan charac-teristic. First,the Modern Hunan Clan structure and size was showing dwindleddawn.Second, the Modern Hunan Patriarchal Clan's geographical closureincreasingly weakened, but the openness and the mobility was increasing.Third, compared with the Modern Hunan Clan and traditional clan, thefunction of the old was weaken day by day and the new functions becamemore and more obvious.Fourth, the Modern Hunan Clan wasuneven.Filth, the Modern Hunan Clan showed some different evolutiontracks compared with the other region.Sixth, the Modern Hunan Clan'sfeudalism was weaken and the modern civilization enhanced.Fifth part: Elaborated the modern Hunan Clan's evolvement reason.The modern Hunan Clan's evolution influnced by many reasons, such aswar, natural disasters, transport, social changes in east and west, also withthe impact of the Western capitalist economic,cultural,ideological. Sixth part: Elaborates the relations between the modern Hunan Clanand the modern Hunan society vicissitude. The Modern Hunan Clan haddouble-side impact in modern society, both positive and negative.Onehand,It maintained the old feudal system and obstructed the developmentof social production.On the other hand,It improved the social atmosphereand in memory of traditional virtues.Seventh part: For the summary of the content.It is obvious that theoverall trend was toward to decline by making a comprehensive view onthe modern Hunan Clan's evolution process. Meanwhile, we sum upexperiences and lessons from the changes of the modern Hunan Clanevolvement and point out attitudes and policies to the current clan. Weshould take serious attitude to the current clan and make correct clanpolicies. Also, we must curb the clan's negative functions and give fullfree to play its positive role in order to make it serve for building thesocialist harmonious society.