China's new marriage and family law started with the 1950 marriage law, stagnated from the mid-1960s to the end of 1970s, and resumed and developed with the 1980 marriage law. In the 1990s, a pattern of marriage law was gradually formed, supplemented by adoption law and marriage registration management regulations, and others were supplemented.

Accompanied by this, the research on the revision of marriage and family law in the legal circle began in the late 1980s and reached a consensus in the mid-1990s. So far, it has been put on the legislative agenda, and the "expert draft" has been initially completed and is under discussion.

Scholars who participate in this cross-century important legislative research activity should feel a heavy academic and historical responsibility.

Therefore, the author puts forward five rough ideas on the macro-positioning of China's marriage and family law, with a view to promoting and deepening it by academic colleagues and bringing it into the construction of specific legal systems.