Practice Mode And Counter Measure Suggestions Of Administrative Intervention In Bride Price

Bride price is one of the traditional customs of China’s marriage system.It originated from the "selective ceremony" in the "six rites" of the Western Zhou Dynasty,which is the product of "parents’ orders and matchmakers".The bride price occurs during the love period,which is influenced by traditional customs.And it has specific significance and form of payment.In ancient times,bride price was the etiquette of engagement,which symbolizes good luck.It had the payment function of compensation significance.It showed the economic strength of the male family and represents the degree of economic development in a certain historical period.At the same time,it announced the conclusion of the wishes of both parties,that is the conclusion of marriage.In modern times,bride price is an ethical and cultural requirement,expressing personal feelings and representing the interests and face of the family.At present,under the impact of money worship and diversified ideas,the accelerated population flow and the imbalance of men and women have led to a certain degree of imbalance between supply and demand in the marriage market.In addition,with the psychology of social comparison,some people take high bride price as a shortcut to get rich,resulting in "sky-high bride price".Bride was just as one of the custom process.In the present social life,It becomes marriage achievement necessary conditions."bride price" destroyed the traditional marriage order,causing the social multiple contradictions.Firstly,the behavior of transferring the economic burden of marriage and trying to benefit from it leads to the rising bride price,the poverty caused by marriage and the return of poverty by marriage;secondly,restricting the freedom of marriage,which damages the simple folk customs.At the same time,it increase the pension burden of the country.Fourthly,it harms the social stability and promotes various illegal crimes.The paper is mainly divided into four parts.In the first part,the topic of "sky-high price" is introduced through three typical social cases."Sky-high price" would be limited by administrative intervention.In the second part,it introduces relative merits of administrative intervention in the "sky-high bride price" of Liangshan in Sichuan,Ganzhou in Jiangxi,and Puyang in Henan.The third part expounds the history,legitimacy and rationality of administrative intervention.By the official media system;the legitimacy from the perspective of normative documents,the government,the characteristics of the bride price beyond the autonomy of private law;and the rationality of the social harmfulness,the advantages of administrative intervention and the social reality.The fourth part,current social reality and the practice pattern analysis are taken into account.It offer a proposal of administrative intervention in the problem of "bride price" related countermeasures and Suggestions,such as developing the rural economy,establish perfect the administrative intervention mechanism system,vigorously promote the transforming social traditions work,strengthen the propaganda and education guidance,etc.Administrative intervention is not equal to administrative interference and coercion.It has the characteristics of "soft governance law".Its deterrence and punishment strength is not rigid.However,under the brutal growth of marriage and the bride price market,"sky-high price bride price" has seriously damaged China’s socialist modern concept of marriage and love.Therefore,the government as an "invisible hand",actively solve the problem of market failure,to curb the dowry,promote core values,create a good social atmosphere,improve the local legislation,maintain the marriage system has positive significance in the administrative intervention in marriage.It is still in the preliminary exploration stage.The paper through the current government administrative intervention in the theory and reality,hope for large-scale governance "dowry" provide useful reference.