With the acceleration of the aging process,the empty nest tendency is getting increasingly serious. Endowment issue of empty-nest elderliness has become an important problem of the society. This paper takes the empty-nest elderliness from Kunming,Lijiang and capital city of Honghe and Dehong as study objects,investigating the choice of endowment pattern of 509 emptynest elderliness by means of self-designed questionnaire. The results show that 71. 2 % of the empty nest elderliness prefer family endowment,15...