A Research On Marital Payment Vicissitude In Villages

Based on a common villages of Shandong Province as an example---the Fang Jia Zhuang village.This research mainly used social questionnaire,depth interview method of anthropology to study the village since 1978 to pay the marriage situation changes . The article mainly studied from three aspects.Firstly,I will research the paying of the marriage status in change of in-laws,secondly, the study of marital home to pay the situation changes, the final analysis is about the reasons of vicissitude.The marital payment of in-laws has already experienced the process:the "engaged money" disappeared, the emergence of "at the money" and "money to meet" and the increase in payments. Today, the form of conversion has become a single currency. Young couples have more and more control over marital payment and with this corresponds, bride price from the initial compensation for home care of the nature of the TU into the junior parents gave gifts to the parents alive today when he was newly married couples to carve up the family property.The marital payment of home has already experienced the process: from "indirect dowry" to "Pei Song ". Despite the marital payment of home is not as complicated as the marital payment of in-laws, the marital payment of home in Fang Jia Village has never been stopped, and remains around three themes: firstly, the social network of family status, the family position in the affinity, and the third is the location of her daughter in-laws.The reasons of the marital payment changed has three aspects .On the one hand ,it is about the economic variables;on the other hand ,it is paid for this social phenomenon of marriage on the Fang Jia Village social structure, social relations and interactive network in the study and analysis.