Abstract: The social structure born in Chinese small peasant economy is the patriarchal clan system that takes family and clan as a basic unit.Such system determines individual's strong dependence on family and clan.Accordingly,the group under this kind of social and cultural background occupy the guidance and priority in value,and the individual is only dependency or derivative of his group.The extrinsic "bounding" and inner "bounding" construct a kind of joint force in the Confucian culture,and cure the relationship between individual and group.At the same time,the thought of group standard has formed gradually by the transcendence and integration from the "bounding" of culture to the "courtesy" of system.

Key words: Chinese traditional culture, individual, group, group standard, bounding, system, courtesy