A Bride Price Evolution Of The Rural

Wedding bride price as an important part of culture, rooted in China's traditional culture, cultural symbols for each household can not be avoided, the bride price depends on the local community, and with the development of society and changing. This article is based field to field interviews Tianjin A village survey, based on a comprehensive study of the theory of bride price, in terms of population sociology, concerns the change of the economic element behind marriage and inter-generational power. A comprehensive display of the evolution of A Village Wedding Etiquette practices in social transformation and urbanization continue to promote macroeconomic background, we use qualitative research methods, questionnaire interviews, field survey to obtain first-hand information, to A village association chronicles study, describe the current status A village bride, bride price analysis of the nature, function, up the cause and predict its trends. In this paper, the bride characterized as a reservation deposit contract, and assumes the division of family wealth and deposit constraint functions. The second part of this article describes the steps etiquette, kinship and three angles bride status of development and change, it tends to draw simple steps bride, relatives and the bride does not have to move around a large importance to obtain dynamic results significantly improved. Part III by analyzing the factors affecting the evolution of bride price, affected social development of the rural economy significantly increased the level of macro-level, the level of rural marriage pay increased year by year, combined with wisdom civilized, corresponding to the radius increases mate, mate requirements from a single to compound, this change is reflected in the promotion of gender formation and development of the current concept of marriage, highlighting the human capital in marriage payments increase the proportion of social reality. The above analysis of the nature and function of the bride, fourth part of the development trend of rural summarized as marriage dowry payments to subsidize marriage, family based to individual-based human capital and labor to help pay three conclusions.