The Research On The Function Of Fictive Kinship

The fictive kinship is the man-made extension form of kinship, which is prevalent in thevillage. Establishing nominal kinship is the most typical example. Combing on the existingliterature at home and abroad, this study take the field research methods, select J village inHenan Province. This thesis deeply research on the fictive kinship by the means of literatureresearch method, participant observation, interviews.Through the research on J village, master the basic situation of the fictive kinship, thendiscuss the formation structure of the fictive kinship relationship from the perspective of the“five edge”, and summed up the social and culture function of the fictive kinship relationship.The rural fictive kinship have some characteristics, such as the number is not limited, Ritual,utilitarian tend. People establishing the fictive kinship relationship by the ceremony, in thisway, people announce the establishment of the fictive kinship relationship, tell the ancestorsand gods that our family will add a new member, pray them to protect him; besides, peoplestrengthen feelings by the ceremony, and make the fictive kinship more formal. Any folkculture is in the change, the fictive kinship relationship as a folk culture also is in the change.The changes of the fictive kinship relationship not only reflect the secular and utilitarian tends,but also show the change of the motivation and function. In order to strengthen theunderstanding of the fictive kinship relationship network structure in the countryside, thisthesis analyzes the internal network structure of the fictive kinship relationship by the meansof “five geo-cultural”, confer the relationship between the fictive kinship network structureand the villagers’ living space.On the basis of analyzing the general situation and structure of the fictive kinship, thisthesis summed up the impact on the socio-cultural from the positive and negative aspects. Thefictive kinship as a folk phenomenon, show the general functions of the folk, meanwhile, hasits own unique impact significance. The main positive function of the fictive kinshiprelationship is to broaden the communication space, meet the psychological needs tendingfunction, entertainment and cultural function, educational function, cohesion function and soon. The negative function is mainly contributed to the rural unhealthy practices, breedcriminal behavior, and make the spread of feudal superstition. Traditional folk culture have a good part and bad part, so culture inheritance and development should be scientific andrational, Select the essence and discard the dross, so that it can play a more active role in thenew era.Under the impact of the strong wave of modernization, many of the traditional ritualsymbols have disappeared, The fictive kinship phenomenon has not disappeared, it has beenstrengthened, Thinking of the reason, on the one hand, it is a form of folk custom culture,which is rooted in the deep soil of the farmers, inherently conservative and inheritance; on theother hand, the fictive kinship relationship play a vital role in social life of rural areas, meetthe needs of the farmers’ most basic means of production, so that this phenomenon meet theactual needs of civil society. And only both sides of the fictive kinship have strong contactswilling, glad to bear the responsibility and obligation, compliance with human etiquette rules,this relationship will keep long-term maintenance and development. When we inherit thetraditional culture of the fictive kinship, we should guide their development, make it return tothe nature of meeting human emotional needs.