The Research On Marriage Payments

Social vicissitude research has always been one of the core contents in sociological research. With this tradition, this article takes the marriage payments practice as the window, inquiring about the vicissitude of the village life. The author holds that it is more favorable to the social vicissitude research from the angel of middle-level of family which is the combination of the macro-level and micro-level, therefore selecting "Marriage Payments" as the subject to provide an unique prospective to the village social vicissitude of Chinese.The article takes 1980 as the beginning of research and 1995 as the turning point to divide the period into tradition and modern times. introduced the local characteristic knowledge and dialect of T village and the introduction of the origin of marital custom. Elaborated the significance and vicissitude of the Bride-price. It holds that Bride-price is a dynamic practice process which is not only restricted by social structure but also implicitly contains the subjective initiative of actors, highlighting the actor's especially the bridegroom's independence and initiative. Analysed its significance and vicissitude of the trousseaus. highlighting the bridal's remarkable function to trousseaus. The paper focuses on the subject of social vicissitude of emerging strength of the sub-generation in countryside. Economical independence,dominance of the assignment method and the change of idea is thought to be contributory to the emerging strength of the sub-generation. The form of the emerging strength of the sub-generation can be seen from the way of knowing the lover,the standard of the lover select,the distance of marriage and the decision-making power of family business.The paper comes to the conclusion that marriage payment practice had witnessed the vicissitude courses from marriage reimburses to marriage subsidization, from family-based to individual-based, from service help and material present to currency payment.