"dandelion Growth" Clan Mode Study

Taking a Han family in Fujian as the object, the study made an in-depth field survey in which the research method of nuncupation was used from the perspective of historical sociology and social anthropology. Except form village documents, local folk literature, such as pedigree of the clan, covenant and writ were used in the survey, as well as social memory information such as family memory, legend and folktails. Started with the social development process of Jinsha district where Fenggang village lies, the essay gave a detailed illustration on the process of Han family's cultivation of Jinsha district society. From the angle of Jinsha district society, the writer has set the nearly 500 years' development history of Lin family in Fenggang into the historical development of Jinsha district society, so as to study on the Lin family in Fenggang. Fujian, as Mr Fu Yiling insisted, is a country-clan society, therefore, the society in Jinsha district is also a typical country-clan society. Based on the perspective of Jinsha district society, the study emhpasized the forming process of Lin family in Fenggang, which is also the research points of the essay.Located in the southeast coast of Fujian, Fenggang is a mountainous village which connects Xianyou, Yongchun, and Nan'an san xian. Lin family in Fenggang immigrated from another family in the middle and late period of Ming dynasty, and by late Qing period, it has developed into a patriarchal clan village. Though the research was carried with a view to the patriarchal clan community in Fenggang, it was not limited in the village itself. Instead, Fenggang only worked as a net joint by providing a a typical scene on its economic production, living, market, marriage,folk religion, sacrifice, geomantic omen .etc. Through the comparison with other neighboring villages on the aboved aspects, the essay tried to show a social changes of the village in a larger community society, and to study the changes patriarchal clan has experienced in different historical conditons, in this way, the process in which Fenggang district patriarchal clan had sruvived, developed, and thrieved toughly in the long history was dipicted vividly. In other words, on the basis of diachronic study on Fenggang, the writer has put the development process of Fenggang into the whole history of Jinsha district, and probed into both sameness and difference between Lin family in Fenggang and other families. In such a long history, the development process of Lin family in Fenggang was presented in a more particular and historical way."The Multielement, One Integrity"of Mr. Fei Xiaotong pointed that thousands of years China ethic peoples' developmental history, especially Han nationality develops in the way of "rolling snowball", and thus China ethnic peoples formed. Based on the macro-theory, the author has take field study to the developmental history of Lin family of Fenggang, and correspondingly proposed family "dandelion growing" theoretical pattern. And the hypothesis insists during the Lin family growing, three factors performs great function, including the inherent consanguineous organ ligament, the floating social environment, ad the pan-clanism, which led to the forming of patriarchal clan was explored, on the basis of the aboved factors, a "dandelion development model" of clan's development was put forward, which worked as the commander of the whole stduy.A "Dandelion-Like" Patriarchal Clan Growth Model, as it is called, means that is grows like a dandelion. Pan-clanism, inherent consanguineous organ ligament and the floating social environment are respectively compared to be the seed, soil and nutrition of dandelion. With the development of the society and the need of clan's growth, members migrated continuously, and then settled down and grew up in a new place, until they have intergrated into the newly immigrated community, just like the way in which seeds of dandelion gone with wind.