Both She ethnic group and Yao ethnic group has formed colorful traditional marriage culture in the long history, including quite a few matriarchy relic from the primitive matriarchal clan society. The two ethnics have similar historical development skeleton and present such marriage forms as consanguineous marriage, Punaluan marriage, couple marriage and the system of monogamy. Meanwhile, they also show a greater identity in marriage customs in the fields of avunculate first, son-in-law adoption, uxorilocal residence and uxorilocal customs. Therefore, taking the traditional marriage culture of She and Yao ethnics as the object of study, the historical development of She and Yao’s marriage culture is explored from the source, development, abundence, perfection and other aspects. The study provides not only a powerful historical basis for the cultural affinities of the two communities, but also contributes to beneficial references to the comparative researches between different ethnic cultures.%畲瑶两族在漫长的历史进程中形成的丰富多彩的传统婚姻文化，包含了较多原始母系氏族社会的母权制遗俗，具有相似的历史发展脉络，呈现出了血缘婚、普那路亚婚、对偶婚和一夫一妻等婚姻形态。同时，两族在婚姻习俗上也表现出较大的同一性，具体表现在舅权至上、招郎入赘、从妻居和不落夫家等婚姻习俗上。因此，以畲瑶传统婚姻文化为研究对象，从溯源、发展、丰富、完善等层面，探寻畲瑶两族婚姻文化的历史发展进程，既能为两族的文化亲缘关系提供有力的历史依据，又能为不同民族间的文化比较研究作出一些有益的参考。
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