Gifts, Rational Farmers Behavior With The Ceremony

The topic about "Suili" is one of the topics that take place most often in daily life of country resident. More and more attention has been paid to the economical significance of the phenomenon of "Suili" along with the using of "Cash as giving". The author reviews the study about gift in anthropology and domestic study about the phenomenon of "Suili" and make some discussion in case analysis on the base of the information that had been collected in visiting face to face.First, the author discuss the emotional-psychological factor in the behavior of "Suili" on the base of the Chinese traditional "Manner" culture and pay enough attention to the relationship concern with the "cash as giving". The trait and possible influence to family of the income and outcome of "cash as giving" are also been reviewed. The author point out: on one hand, the activities of agricultural production and daily consumption are restricted due to the outcome of "cash as giving" and also important decision in family lifecycle will be influenced; on the other hand, the backflow of the "cash as giving" make a positive function that may improve the financial situation of family.The author makes a discussion about the process and trait of the circulation of "cash as giving". A diagram has been drawn in order to make some analysis on the datum from a representative family. The author point out: there are big risk and bad effect to the family in this circulation. And the family may take some strategy to deal with it. So something happened on the diagram is that the curve of outcome cash giving trend to be disconnected and the pole of income trend to continuity. People wish a kind of "maintaining" relation: equilibrium between the gain of social resource and the paying out of economical resource. Later, special attention has been paid to the absolute and comparative overflow in this circulation.In the last part, the sense of economic rationality and calculation in the phenomenon of "Suili" comes into the discussion and the author point out that its appearance in the traditional social exchange field reflects the trend of "Rationalization" in social relation of countrymen.