The Old Traditional And New Custom: Chinese Villages Marriage Customs Change

Along with the further promotion of the reform and opening, China's social and economic rapid development, the social transformation intensifies, Chinese countryside society appeared the unprecedented changes. This change is all-around, it not only embodies in rural economic life and political life domain, and rural social cultural value permeated level, including rural marriage customs change. If the marriage is out of traditional social economic, political, social, family or family relations in interests of various consideration, current marriage reflected morely modernity.This paper selects a village in Henan province as the research object, using theoretical analysis and empirical research method of combining the observation, visiting etc, and take the form of field survey, a detailed description of the present stage of henan rural areas marriage customs in modernization process.This paper concluded under the influence of rural from closed to the open process, and the old culture of traditional marriage custom altered. Analyzing the problems discovered in marriage custom and looking for rural marriage custom to healthy direction development direction.First part:introduction. To illustrate the topic origin, research meaning, involved in related theory and applied to the research method, and the related concept definition.The second part:use the author investigation to the case as an example, a detailed description of the concluding villages marriage etiquette:blind date, DingQin, "new relatives", string big order, next post pre-marital and wedding. Analyzing China's social transition period, the village marriage customs in follow traditional culture on the basis of external fusion, formed at the custom of distinctive combination of old and new form.The third part:describe in modernization under the influence of the countryside, the marriage to emerge from some phenomena and further analysis:(1) the marriage of identity forms including get marriage certificate of legal identity and the wedding of social recognition, two kinds of identity form. Although people's legal consciousness enhancement, the village still exists among many factual marriage, people pay more attention to or social acceptance. (2) in marriage concluded process, both parties the initiative of the enhanced, the initiative of the lower parents. Reason is that the cultural background and the parties by modernization thought influence. (3) family relative to the parent families son the independence of the enhanced. Reason is that huge advertising and direct laid a son of the dowry family economic foundation and the material conditions, The parties concluded in marriage in the process of communication mode, and enhance their mutual relationship.(4) family structure changes. After marriage partition led to the family structure change, core family also is increasing number son family. (5) family relationships change. Describe in contemporary family life, relationship between husband and wife, old woman daughter-in-law relation in a series of changes and analyzes its reason. The relationship between couples become the relations of equality, old woman daughter-in-law relation of old woman daughter-in-law status has changed very greatly, have the past mother-in-law dominant into today daughter-in-law dominant. From the past mother-in-law oppression daughter-in-law today old woman daughter-in-law equality, more is daughter-in-law abuse mother-in-law arises.The fourth part:the conclusion and prospect. By the research to marriage customs changes reflect the rural social culture and local concepts in modern trends, and constantly fusion under the influence of foreign ideas, and finally saved the existing old combined form. Throughout the marital relations during the formation of, the villagers as the subject of action, to the extent of the marriage customs compliance by its cultural degree and the social change the dual effects of the big background. But no matter how changes in marriage custom, is impossible to completely avoid tradition. In the changing customs still exist some problems, the government should actively guide, is the healthy development of rural marriage cultural.