The Changes Of Family Division Under The Non-agricultural Process

No matter in traditional Chinese or in modern countryside, the family division has been a long-standing social phenomenon. Sometimes it is called "the institution of equal shares for all sons" or "brothers separation". It refers to the sons of parents after marriage and family property after the establishment of an independent segmentation of new family process.The family division in China has a history of over two thousand years. Although in the beginning of the Republic of China revised law because of the western law for a large range of transplantation from the west, and it made the division withdrew went away from the national law, in the Chinese rural family it has been used as a custom exist and play a real role.From the last century80’s, a large number of the farmers begin from agricultural to non-agricultural industries. The non-agricultural process has its unique side. it is a special social phenomenon in our country reforming and opening since face the social. The influence to farmer family lies in:1) The younger generation began to leave the land to engage in non-agricultural industry, the economy has made relatively independent, father to its economic control right gradually weaken;2)As the young generation of income increase, their two generation of the family to make contribution to the increasingly large, parents’ authority begins to face the challenge from the family, filial independence is becoming more and more intense desire.In the non-agricultural process, the changes of the family division include:1)the time is adavancef after the separation into immediately new customs;2)the separation of the ceremony more and more simple, single lots books are no longer as the necessary separation;3) the separation from the previous one, change for the Series II in the separation of separation;4)with the advance it also has no divided, delayed separation and later the trend appears;5)the division of property in the separation of meaning gradually small, endowment, filial independent significance to strengthen. Among them, the last one reverse trend appeared a lot of new temporary family structure. It also makes certain functions of modern family.