MARRIAGE CUSTOMS AND THE CHANGE OF RELATIVE SYSTEMS UNDER THE CONTROL OF ECONOMY ——A Case Study of Marriage Customs in Zicun Village

This is a case study of marriage customs in Zicun , a village inhabited by the Han and Zhuang people in Liujiang county, South China's Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region. The study shows that there are a lot in common in the marriage customs of Han and Zhuang people. The psychology in their choice of spouses are distinctly and indistinctly subject to economic conditions. The author argues that the innovation of regional culture must comply with that of national culture as a whole. The mode of thinking as a whole in the traditional Chinese culture can be a cultural basis for constructing the discourse system of Chinese anthropology.