Abstract:

Since China's reform and opening up, people have gradually enjoyed a kind of “modern” marriage that involves various patterns from love to sex and to an extramarital affair. It seems to be a social advance. On the contrary, some of the subalterns still have their so-called feudal marriage such as marriage by exchange and marriage by purchase, which seems to be “backward” and “immoral.” In accordance with their states of existence, however, they tend to have no choice but the “feudal” marriage. One of their major moral aspects is “existence.”