Autonomy And Regulation:Funeral System And System Changes In The Perspective Of The Household System

Household system is the basic organization form of Chinese society, a family is a basic unit, and family members around family production and living, So the funeral is one of the household life. Traditional household with Chinese social, political, economic, cultural and other prototypes. However, with the development of modernization, the prototype of the traditional household have changed, there is also a change of the household funeral system. Taking Gansu Longnan Gucheng village, a typical household as the research object, and tracing history, to review of the traditional household principle in the face of the funeral affairs, and understand the changes of the rural people’s concept of funeral and burial.This paper takes time for the line, and addresses the three stages of the funeral system:The first stage is the end of Qing dynasty and before, at this stage, farmers believe in ghosts and gods, funeral activities revolves around ghosts and gods, and embodies the "filial piety". The second stage is the Republic of China to the people’s communes,and at this stage, The government of the Republic of China for many times for funeral specification. After the liberation, especially the fifties and sixties of the 20th century, The state funeral system has changed,activities in the countryside for the transforming social traditions, many changes have taken place in rural funeral behavior, and with close links to the funeral of other systems also have obvious changes, such as social system. The third stage is the disintegration of the people’s commune,1982 years later, the development of market economy in rural areas of the funeral system also had an impact, these changes are mainly embodied in the buried change and conceptual change of people. From the specific content, respectively from the concept of funeral; funeral and burial behavior three aspects elaborated the changes of the funeral system from the traditional. And the cause of the funeral system change has carried on the brief discussion, thinking that national policy and economic rationality is the main reason for the change in rural funeral system.