Abstract: Extreme poverty in the contiguous areas is fundamentally a cultural problem.In the process of market-oriented transformation,family and village are the important media of farmers’ marketization,and family,village and market together define the logic of farmers’ life in the transition period.The relationship between farmers and families and that between farmers and villages in Guizhou reduces local farmers’ motivation to enter the market,thus giving birth to the formation of maintenance families.Specifically,the formation of maintenance families mainly stems from the weak accumulation of family resources of "half-work" and "half-farming" and the allocation of family resources dominated by immediate consumption.On the whole,the farmers’ families show a state of "low income,high consumption and low accumulation",leading to insufficient family accumulation and weak ability for family development.Maintenance family is the structural basis of poverty culture.The maintenance concept of family and the pressure-free village society block the marketization of farmers' labor force,which not only dispels the motivation of farmers to enter the labor market,but also dilutes the pressure of marketization.Based on this,the fundamental way to alleviate poverty is to reshape the goal of family reproduction,activate and release the ability of family development,and break the family model of poverty reproduction.

Key words: maintenance family, cultural poverty, farmers；market, poverty reproduction