An Introduction To The Family And Clan Regulations In Guangxi

To maintain the feudal ethics in natural economy, Guangxi family and clan regulations provide the unequal rights and obligations between the noble and the humble among the clan members through the compulsory measures such as: disciplinary measures, incapacitation and outlaw,property punishment,body punishment and life punishment. The unequality is that the noble have the privilege of custodial education,presiding over marriage,punishing and taking part in clan matters to the humble. The content of the family and clan regulations include: strictly punish the offence against obedience and affection,the bandit and thief,the gambling and drink actions,the raping and offensing ethics actions; regulate that the marriage conditions depend on the parents and matchmaker and the same clan members should not be married,limit "marry into and live with the bride's family",prohibit "the transferring marriage"ï¼›provide the inheritance principle of "Ying inheritance prefer to Ai inheritance"and the inheritance system of "all sons take a part"ï¼›emphasize the relative who buy property should be preferential and pay more attention to the public property's operation and accumulation and to the clan relief; require the clan members to farm and read, to pay taxes; prohibit its members choose bad occupations and bring an action. Because the ancient Guangxi developed late,the landlord economy developed incompletely,the political customs autonomy and the different culture types between the minority nationality and the Han nationality; Guangxi family and clan regulations develop late which not only include the Han nationality's culture speciality but also maintain its own nationality tradition,not only remain the primitive customs remainders, but also absorb the content of legal reformation. The family laws and clan regulation have many persuading regulation and pay more attention to punishing the bandit and thief. In the ancienttime, Guangxi family and clan regulation help the state laws consolidate the ruling order,protect the revenue system and resolve the clan contradiction. But at the same time it make contribution to the development of "paternal family" model and restrain the development of the commodity economy.