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Ｏｎｅ　Ｈｕｉ　Ｆａｍｉｌｙ’ｓ　Ｄｅｓｔｉｎｙ 　　 Translated by Yu Chengfa He Xinmin Lu Wanying Photo by Li XiaoqinIn ancient China, the composition of a typical family was basically the same as the composition of the nation. Families, most scholars suggest, composed the backbone of ancient Chinese society; that culture was family centered, and the minority peoples helped form the foundation upon which society was built. 　　That is not necessarily the case, but the suggestion puts forward the concept that the family unit was the main feature of ancient Chinese culture and society. 　　Families, and the tradition of ones ancestors being sacred, are deeply rooted in traditional Chinese culture, which, in turn, manifests the intrinsic features of the family unit. For thousands of years, the family system in Chinese society has played a crucial role in the nations cultural tradition, and, thus, has helped form the basis of Chinas traditional social structure. It continues to help shape the social property of Chinese people. 　　Over the past millennia, even though Chinese society has undergone turbulent times, including civil war and the division and reunification of the country, the family unit, with its system, has remained intact. It did not wither or fade away during those trying times; rather, on the basis of blood ties, and through the combination of relations among the various regions and local peoples varied interests, it formed a unified system that developed from family to clan. It penetrated the political, economic and cultural life at the basic level of society, and, hence, exerted a profound influence on traditional Chinese society, wrote Zheng Zhenman, in Family Organization and Social Transformations in Fujian Province in the Ming and Qing Dynasties. 　　As a result, the study of family -- in terms of its internal structure, social function, mode of development and transformation tendencies -- has attracted the attention of anthropologists, sociologists and historians ever sin