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.

本文应用湖北省松滋县的调查数据，对婚姻形式和与父母共居时间的关系进行了研究。结果表明，在控制了其他重要的影响因素后，夫妻的婚姻形式对婚后保持与父母共居关系的时间有显著的影响。嫁娶婚姻夫妻，制度变化型和应时变化型“招赘”婚姻夫妻在婚后与父母共居时间上呈现递增的关系，婚后5年内是最可能改变与父母共居关系的时期。本文最后讨论了出现这种现象的原因及其社会意义。

Using data from a survey in Songzi County of Hubei Province, this article analyzes the relationship between children's gender and marriage form and their provision of old-age support to their noncoresiding parents in rural China. The results show that children's gender and marriage form have significant influence on their likelihood of giving financial and housework support to their parents, but no significant influence on the amount of financial support or their likelihood of supporting their parents with agricultural labor in peak agricultural seasons. Thus, the authors find that in Songzi, where both virilocal and uxorilocal marriages have been historically accepted and commonly practiced, sons and daughters play basically the same role in providing old-age support for their noncoresiding parents, as do virilocal and uxorilocal couples. The article discusses how these findings relate to current and future problems of old-age security and son preference in rural China.

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 the division from their natal parents after marriage in rural China. The results reveal that among children with a brother, sons in virilocal marriages are more likely to undertake family division and it will occur earlier than for daughters in uxorilocal marriages. However, among children without a brother, behaviours in family division are not significantly different between sons and daughters. The majority of family division occurs in the first five years after marriage for sons and is distributed more or less equally over the first five years after marriage for daughters. Some children's individual factors including number of siblings also affect their likelihood of family division. Demographic, socioeconomic and cultural causes underlying this phenomenon as well as its social implications are also discussed.