China’s Ancient And Modern Marriage System

The marriage system is an important part of a social system, the individual of family,marriage family is an important intermediate link connecting individual and society, is thefoundation of society. The institution of marriage is based on certain economic basis ofsuperstructure, so has the social system or common characteristics of superstructure, inparticular social form nature of marriage and family system of content, form, have differentsocial background, specific marriage and family system that can reflect the social culturaltradition, social development level, material living conditions. Social conditions, the changeof social system and fundamental cause of development and change of marriage familysystem. In our country, change in the institutional change should come before the peoplethought, modern Chinese thinking mode, especially family values are still influenced bytraditional ideas, compare the marriage system in ancient and modern marriage system notonly can clearly feel the change of culture system to the transformation of the lives of Chinesepeople, also can be more clear understanding of the problems arising from the modernmarriage, and the train of thought to solve these problems.This paper is divided into four parts, the first part mainly compared the similarities anddifferences between ancient and modern marriage principle. Principle of the marriage systemin ancient China originated from the western zhou dynasty,"the lives of parents arranged","monogamy principle","sharing marriage principle", etc., these principles are the ritual, isfollow the basic principles of various dynasties. Marriage in ancient China the biggestcharacteristic is its biggest difference with the modern marriage system in ancient Chinesemarriage is not personal wishes, the ancients of the marriage values are based on the interestsof the family, for the feudal rule of its service. With the awakening of consciousness ofindividual rights in modern society, the meaning of marriage is no longer a familyresponsibility, but will be positioning into marriage is the way of achieving personalhappiness,"freedom of marriage""equality between men and women" these principles is notonly the marriage law stipulates, at the same time also embodies the protection of humanrights in the constitution concept, the evolution of marriage system basic principle embodiesthe personal independence and liberation. The second part of this paper mainly introduces themarriage application changes. Ancient marriage concluding program is relatively complex,the natrium, ask name, Mr Najib, requisition, please period, close to meet "synthetic" sixritual ", derived from rites, this program has been adopted in ancient China continued, in the folk has a brief but overall engagement, ying is indispensable two procedure, especially theengagement ceremony in ancient times there is a very strong binding, engagement in chastityidea of Ming and qing dynasties period after man’s death is a feast to the visible engagementits significance in ancient Chinese marriage is no less true marriage. Marriage systems inChinese traditional wedding program is there is a strong force of law, once the ceremonycompleted the parties are subject to constraints, any one party once HuiHun would bepunished by the law. In the modern marriage system, the validity of the marriage are not in thewedding ceremony, but by the law, the marriage registration is valid marriage is the only way,so marriage is a simple matter for modern people, because of the simple more can let marriagereflects the individual will of the parties not interference by others. Modern weddingceremony can reflect personality, tend to be influenced by tradition and western two cultures,modern wedding usually both characteristics, such as attaches great importance to thetraditional marriage customs and want to wear wedding marriage oath, the wedding ceremonyof modern is more have the effect of the declaration of marriage want to friends and relatives.The article third part try to gain and loss in the evolution of the marriage system is discussed.Modern marriage system design mainly around the principles of better preserve and protectthe freedom of marriage, guarantee the freedom of marriage, the parties about their marriageis undoubtedly a great guarantee the happiness of marriage, reflects the principle of protectionof human rights in the constitution. But on the other hand, the modern marriage system lacksof family responsibility, the rules of the traditional institution of marriage isn’t the concept ofmarriage responsibility, but they always will give top priority to personal responsibility tofamily, and due to the traditional pattern of the institution of marriage and family life and theinfluence of patriarchal thought, parenting and parents support within the family can get agood protection, respect elders and therefore has become the traditional virtues of the Chinesepeople. Due to the change of life style and thought makes the single-parent children and theelderly support has become common social problems these problems become can not besolved through the institution of marriage itself, so you need to have legal to adjust andregulate these phenomena, the article finally in the system design on some of the rules inorder to solve these problems that exist in the marriage.