Modern Clan Field Research Of Guangdong

This article discusses the origin, distribution characteristics, development trend, management and function property of clan field of modern Guangdong and Guangxi region base on a large number of genealogy, archives of agrarian reform, local chorography and the investigation data, for in-depth analysis, reveal the true face of the clan fields, display the Guangdong and Guangxi familyfield characteristics.After a long-term development, the clan field of Guangdong and Guangxi region has formed the main sources by purchase, donations and reclamation shatin, and complementary with other such as public deposit, heritage, fine and exchange and so on. Such diversified sources caused the general existence of clan field in modern Guangdong and Guangxi region. But there were different characteristic of clan field distribution because of the different social environment, economic conditions, cultural environment and the composition and distribution of national between Guangdong and Guangxi provinces, results differences in the amount and distribution, whether the overall quantity or each county maintain numbers are significant differences, the distribution of Guangdong clan field in general was descending from zhongshan, panyu, shunde county in the Pearl river delta region as the center around to decline, the distribution of Guangxi was from the east and south to west and north both directions. Guangdong and Guangxi clan fields in the modern period as a whole in a state of continuous development. From the management perspective, there was a strict system to manage the clan fields in Guangdong and Guangxi region during the modern time. The clan was endowed with the right to select the governor ang to supervise the management of income and expenses of the clan fields. The governor exercised the right under the strict management system, which could increase the working efficiency and greatly reduce the possibility of corruption. From the social level, the clan was the product of the traditiongal patriarchal clan, it had many functions such as teaching assistant, sacrifice, maintenance tribe and relief and so on, meanwhile it assumed a certain degree of social security functions, thus to bring each function into full play and a profound impact on society.New intellectuals have begun to emerge in the context of modern China’s various trends of thought surging, large-scale importation of Western science, they advocate and longing for the establishment of a new country. The clan is also responsive to the development needs of the times, to learn the advanced thinking and management measures which play a certain role in promoting the Modernization of the rural society, but clan fields as its economic base, a product of patriarchal, its development must be commensurate with the development of the feudal patriarchal community, which determines its inevitable extinction as the demise of the feudal patriarchal community.