Where exactly is family separation a custom? What kind of situation will be separated?

The tree is divided, the people are divided, in the long traditional period of our country, usually after the male member of the family is married, a new family is born, like a ripe fruit on a tree, to be separated from the original organization. In ancient China, it was normal for a family to have many children, so it was usually the older children who took the younger ones. A close aunt is like a mother, and an elder brother is like a father, so to speak. In ancient China, the ruling class generally encouraged this kind of family separation in order to reward farming and weaving. A separate family would be more likely to open up, and opening up the wilderness and having more people was an important means of maintaining stable rule and a rich and powerful country in traditional times.

Separation of families is not a custom, separation of families is the inevitable product of the development of productive forces to a certain stage, the separation of families is in fact a large family is broken down into a small family. As the most basic unit of society, the small family is more conducive to the social division of labor, which is precisely the embodiment of the progress of productive forces. This model was basically finalized from the time of Shang Yang's change of law to the unification of China by Emperor Qin Shi Huang. Rural division of the family does not have any special rules down, but it does not mean that it is blindly divided, there are some rules in effect. For example, two brothers, the oldest must be separated immediately after marriage, the oldest established their own households. Because the following there is a second, parents to the oldest married daughter-in-law, the future of the energy must be put on the second, can not take care of the oldest.

Once separated from the family, the eldest can no longer expect parents to give their own help, on the contrary, the eldest although separated from the family, but the younger brother is still obliged to take care of, can not just listen to their own daughter-in-law of what do not care. In general, the rural separation is not divided into property, on the contrary, can be divided into some arrears. Because the oldest house, get married these need to spend money, rural people do not save a lot of money, and build a house and get married is the biggest two things in the countryside, usually people will owe money. Therefore, when the oldest one starts a family and divides it up, he will be given a portion of the money he owes. For example, if he owes people 50,000 yuan, it is possible to give him 30,000 or 40,000 yuan to make him pay back, and the parents have a second one behind them, who can't afford to pay back that much.