Since the birth of communication, the academic territory has been expanding continuously, and various branches of disciplines have emerged. As a new branch discipline, family communication has attracted much attention for its important contribution to the theory and practice of communication. Although the study of family communication started late, even in the United States, it has only been 30 years, but it has developed into a relatively systematic research feld. Compared with the increasingly mature development in the United States, family communication research in China is an uncultivated research greenbelt. So rooted Chinese native culture, constructing the autonomy of the research of Chinese family communication, should become the historical responsibility of Chinese communication research: namely, based on the practice of Chinese daily family life, refning the core proposition; learning and absorbing the western research results to build a scientifc methodology system; agglomerating the academic community and strengthening the subjective identity.