A Comparative Study of Fangliao Marriage of Hainan's Ethnic Li and Azhu Marriage in Yongning

Hainan's ethnic Li has adopted the practice of monogyny as early as before the founding of PRC,but the primitive outside-tribe group marriage still survived,and in diversified forms in different places. The custom of Fangliao,prevalent in areas inhabited by ethnic Li is a typical type of such marriage. It analyzes its long-standing reason and the difference from Azhu marriage in Yongning on the basis of elaborating the essential feature of fangliao marriage.