Study On Li Ethnic Minority Traditional Society's Customary Law Of Marriage And Family

"Individual Price"-embodiment of Li women's status is a simple representation of women who be respected in the Li ethnic traditional society, but also the importance values based on customary law of marriage and family in Li ethnic traditional society. The value of women not only in the conclusion of marriage when the husband must provide the dowry, the more shows in serious aspects of traditional marriage and family practices:Female courtship from the "Leng Gui", "Night Travel", "The Marital Home", illegitimate Childs without discrimination, and women remarry free. Li female be revered for life.From the perspective of Li marriage customary law:because of the relative isolation from the han culture, Hainan Li ethnic traditional society can be followed within the birth of a nation's own laws of development of the practicality of marriage customary rules, such as "The Marital Home" and blood marriage ban. Li customary law marriage with the development process Butterfly made of monogamy, underling marriage advocate autonomy and the concept of marriage ban blood, forming a series of system matched with the institution of marriage and complete rules of marriage. Although the lack of a systematic set of customary rules of theoretical support, but its self-advocacy of marriage, ban the simple habit of blood within the marriage law, it also implies the value of the mainstream of modern civilization:freedom of marriage, respect for women's rights.From the perspective of parent rights and adopt rules:As "The Marital Home" practices, so that the Li family's establishment and the establishment of marriage arising out of touch in time dimension, resulting in Li diversification of traditional family patterns, in particular, Avunculate which is caused by the "The Marital Home" practices, both reflects the expansion of the scope of parental authority, and also allows parents the right to produce Li tilt to the maternal characteristics.In the Li family, seeking refuge is widespread, Lung Father (Li who adoptive father called) and Lung Tsai (who adopted son known as Lai) adjustment in the common law formed under the special adoption. Particular, this adoption pattern is not focused on raising orphaned children or the significance of Inheriting in the han culture, but on the protection of vulnerable adults, the purpose of the family. In most cases, seek refuge with the function of resolving contradictions. Generated due to join their adoption of this form of relationship complexity, the program strictly.From the above three areas, although the continuous development of Li traditional society, marriage used to follow the gradual change, but in Li customary law of traditional marriage and family, Li has been in a noble and respected women's status. This feature not only in the customary law on marriage and family, but also reflected in the text surface phenomena, such as women's social status and material contained Lai Kam-free love, marriage, autonomy, gender equality in marriage and family ideas.In general, Li ethnic tradition society's political history, special living environment, and long-term form of religious moral values to promote a production and development of customary law of marriage and family in Li ethnic traditional society. Its own strengths, a high degree of social ethics, gender equality and freedom of marriage, the real, harmonious family style, and created a common law marriage and family, Li's civilization. This social, family harmony and social development according to Li women, constantly separated from transferring their rights, women's "value" is the Li community, and family harmony of the regulator.