The Evolution Of The Social Functions Of Betrothal Gifts

The Betrothal Gifts is rooted in traditional Chinese society,is an indispensable important content in Chinese traditional culture.The Betrothal Gifts has a long history,the experience from the national law to the traditional folk custom back to a state change.As a popular folk not only,and after the reform and opening up.Traditional theory holds that the bride is the price of marriage and bear the compensation her family labor loss function.In the period of social change since the modern times,the pursuit of new ideological trend of the social elite criticizes the dowry system comprehensively,the Betrothal Gifts as equivalent of mercenary marriage.Received comprehensive resistance in Betrothal Gifts,Betrothal Gifts still strong and stubbornly popular in folk.After reform and opening up,the re-emergence of the dowry system,Betrothal Gifts bear the social function and the change.That’s the problem: the mainstream ideology is critical for the dowry,compromise or acquiescence,and this kind of thinking will still continue.Against it,along with the social development,more and more disputes the dowry,the practice of this kind of dispute is not a decision to solve alone,even the sentence itself is not reasonable.This article will combine the corresponding social background,on the basis of the analysis of the dowry system,detailed account of the social function of the bride price change,the changes of the social functions and what factors make the dowry.To show that Betrothal Gifts in the necessity of the civil society and demand,show the bride price law and the social value,promote the bride price of social disputes,also provide certain reference significance for the present legal regulation.This paper consists of introduction,text and epilogue.The text is divided into four most to discusses the social function of the dowry system change.The first chapter of the dowry system and social functions of ancient times.Mainly in this paper,the first period of ancient Confucianism coexist under the dowry system.Betrothal Gifts is not only a traditional marriage customs,but also a national institution.In ancient times,the bride is mainly bear the engagement guarantees and social functions of wealth transfer.This is by the then social background as well as the economic,political and cultural aspects of factors.The second chapter describes the dowry system and the modern period.Modern times,the mainstream ideology for the dowry comprehensive resolutely resist,after the founding of the people is the bride left out in the national law.By describing the dowry in content form change,show the bride price flexibility under the national law to boycott.Show Betrothal Gifts strong vitality on the land in China.At the same time in this paper,the bride price in destiny in the modern society,from the national law abolished,legal science also ignore the bride price problem,make the bride price embattled,to correctly understand the dowry system below the stage.The third chapter expounds the status quo of contemporary social bride price and the main social function.First analysis the present situation of the bride price,based on the analysis of the status quo of the dowry derivation in the main social function: in the contemporary society become newly-weds set up small family "reserves" and the couple split means of family property.These changes in social function and the implementation of family planning policy,family size,and the development of the economic level of differentiation are connected.The fourth chapter is about the first three chapter discusses the social function of the dowry system vicissitude of inspiration and the suggestion.First of all,clear the dowry system in the future will exist for a long time,and points out the social function of the dowry system is also changing.This article through to the dowry system to explore the social function of change,show the bride price in today’s social function.The author thinks that we should embrace and recognize the dowry system,should not blindly criticism with indifference,the escape is not solve the many bride price dispute cases in the judicial practice.We need to shift to the dowry system,should use a positive attitude to treat the dowry system,folk custom to keep consistent with national law,so that more conducive to the healthy development of national law.