婚姻匹配受到社会性大事件的影响，大饥荒作为影响广泛的历史事件，对那一时期的婚姻匹配产生了影响。该时期婚姻匹配呈现出的特点又对后续发展产生影响。本研究将运用微观计量方法研究其影响。饥荒是历史的一部分。事实上，饥荒贯穿了历史。公元前4世纪的罗马饥荒是人类有记载以来的一次大饥荒。人们在饥饿和疾病中大批的死去。但是，这并不意味着这是人类的一次饥荒。之所以以往的饥荒没有被记载，是因为在那之前饥荒才是社会的常态，吃饱饭才是值得纪念的事情。
随着社会的变迁，当今的婚姻的各方面都已与旧时有很大的不同，并且社会的变迁对婚姻产生了极为深刻的影响。社会变迁是指一切社会现象发生变化的动态过程及其结果。在社会学中，社会变迁这一概念比社会发展、社会进化具有更广泛的含义，包括一切方面和各种意义上的变化。社会学在研究整个人类社会变迁的同时，着重于某一特定的社会整体结构的变化、特定社会结构要素或社会局部变化的研究。社会变迁(social change)是社会的发展、进步、停滞、倒退等一切现象和过程的总和。社会变迁既包含社会的进步和退步，又包括社会的整合和解体社会变迁的内容涉及社会生产、生活的所有领域，主要可分为:自然环境变迁、人口变迁、经济变迁、社会制度和和结构变迁、社会价值观的变迁、生活方式的变迁、文化变迁、科技变迁等。这里主要谈论人口变迁、社会结构变迁及价值观念变迁对婚姻产生的影响。人口变迁主要指人口数量、质量、构成及人口流动和分布的变化。人口由农村向城市转移，中小城市向大城市转移，国内人口向国外人口的转移都导致了婚姻的异地化，异国化。社会结构变迁主要体现在两个方面: 是社会功能性结构的变化，表现为人们为了满足生存和发展的需要，各种经济、政治、 组织、制度等结构要素的分化和组合:二是社会成员地位结构的变化，表现为社会成员由于其经济地位、职业、 教育水平、权力、社会声望等的不同和变化，所造成的社会阶级和阶层关系的变化。以往的婚姻以“父母之命、媒之言”作为约定，古时讲求门当户对，考虑家财及社会地位，但讲求门当户对的人家在当时极为少数，只为官府及富贵人家,绝大多数的中国家庭的联姻方式都是简单的以传宗接代为目的。
Marriage matching was influenced by social events. The Great Famine, as a widespread historical event, had an impact on marriage matching in that period. The characteristics of marriage matching in this period also influenced the subsequent development. This study will use microeconometric method to study its impact.Famine is a part of history. In fact, famines have existed throughout history. The Roman famine of the 4th century BC was the first great famine in recorded history. People were dying in large numbers from hunger and disease. But that doesn't mean this is the first famine. The reason the famines of the past are not recorded is that before then famine was the norm, and eating well was something to remember.
With the changes of society, all aspects of today's marriage have been very different from the old times, and the changes of society have had a very profound impact on marriage. Social change refers to the dynamic process and result of all social phenomena. In sociology, the concept of social change has a broader meaning than social development and social evolution, including all aspects and various meanings of change. While studying the changes of the whole human society, sociology focuses on the changes of the whole structure of a particular society, specific elements of social structure or local changes of society. Social change is the sum total of all phenomena and processes such as social development, progress, stagnation and regression. Contains both the progress of the society and social change, and include the contents of the disintegration of social integration and social changes in all fields of social life and production, mainly can be divided into: natural environment change, change of population change, economic and social system and structure change, the social values change, the change of lifestyle, cultural change, technology changes, etc. This paper mainly discusses the influence of population change, social structure change and value change on marriage. Population transition mainly refers to the changes of population quantity, quality, composition and population flow and distribution. The migration of population from rural areas to cities, from small and medium-sized cities to big cities, and from domestic population to foreign population all lead to the alienation and foreignization of marriage. The changes of social structure are mainly reflected in two aspects: Is the change of the social functional structure, in order to meet the needs of the survival and development for people, all kinds of structural elements such as economy, politics, organization and system of the differentiation and combination, the second is the changing structure of the social member status, members of society because of its economic status, occupation, education level, power, social prestige and so on the different and change, The resulting changes in social class and class relations. In the past, marriage took "the order of parents and the words of the media" as the agreement. In ancient times, family matching was emphasized, considering family wealth and social status. However, the family matching was very few at that time, only for the government and the rich family.