Change And Reaction:a Research About Choosing Spouse In A Village

In the village Z. marriage is a constant topic in street. In the past, choosing spouse is just marriageable youth and parents’s life task. In recent years, the form and content of this task has changed. The change in the intuitively reflect is various:farmers usually chose spouse for their children when they have the autumn harvest, now its concentrated during the Spring Festival; High bride price become a trend;More and more cross-boundary marriages shows。From a deeper level of expression:marriage circle, marriage exchange standards and the standard in mate selection has changed in the marriage squeeze.Research methods mainly based on the field research method in anthropology, and related resources of demography, sociology in mate selection methods and theories. using ethnographic writing method and the analysis of "process-incident" to the diachronic and synchronic phenomenon.This research shows that marriage circle in village Z has a scattered expanding trend based on traditional marriage circle and show difference on married men and married women; Content of bride price and dowry display new forms. Intermarriage circle and marriage exchange content changes associated with the rise of youth’s autonomy, the more important is that it’s strategies by family and spouse adjust their behavior under marriage squeeze pressure.Based on this research, it led some new thinking about marriage circle and marriages exchanges.