Using data from a survey in Songzi county of Hubei province, this paper studies the influence of children's marriage form and individual factors on their family division from parents. The results reveal that children's marriage form significantly affects their decision on family division. Sons in virilocal marriage are more likely to undertake family division than daughters in uxorilocal marriage, and the timing of division is earlier for the former than for the latter. The likelihood of family division has been steadily increasing for sons, and daughters married in the period of collective economy. The majority of family division concentrates on the first 5 years after marriage for sons and distributes more or less equally over the first 5 years after marriage for daughters. Children's number of brothers has positive marginal effects and education has negative effects on their family division. Demographic and socioeconomic causes underlying this phenomenon as well as its social implications are also discussed.

本文利用陕西省略阳县的调查数据，表明招赘婚姻模式自本世纪以来在略阳县一直被接受和实行。略阳县招赘婚姻模式是一种具有保存性和实用性功能的制度化选择。导致招赘婚姻既有人口因素，也有经济因素，但略阳县松散的父系家族制度和村子对招赘婚姻的限制较少也起到了重要作用。文化传播模型和Logistic模型的分析结果说明，招赘婚姻模式是从父母向子女以及社区的非父母成员向夫妻传播的，而且父母传播在所研究的两个时期内变化很大。1978年后的农村经济改革对招赘婚姻模式的传播效应有非常重要的影响。

In this article, the authors report on a study of the cultural transmission of uxorilocal marriage in Lueyang, China. They find that uxorilocal marriage has been commonly accepted and practiced in Lueyang since the beginning of this century, and uxorilocal marriage has been both a contingent and an institutional option for farmers with both preservative and practical purposes. Causes underlying contingent uxorilocal marriage are mostly demographic, and causes underlying institutional uxorilocal marriage are mostly economic, but a weak patriarchal family system, lack of dominant family clans in villages, and relaxed village regulation of uxorilocal marriage in Lueyang also play decisive roles. The occurrence of uxorilocal marriage is transmitted both from parents to children and from nonparental members of communities to couples. Rural economic reform since 1978 has had important influences on the transmission effects of uxorilocal marriage.

利用略阳县男孩偏好文化传播抽样调查的数据，定量研究两类招赘婚姻的决定因素：由人口因素导致的应时性类型和由经济因素导致的制度性类型。研究表明，应时性类型比制度性类型更常见，并且后者可以家庭内部传播而前者则不能。两种招赘婚姻类型的条件、动机和目的各不相同，决定因素也不相同。研究结果对于理解中国农村家庭结构和婚姻习俗的变化有参考意义。