The Research On The Changes Of Social Custom Of The Keliya People Of The Yutian Area In Xinjiang

From the Angle of anthropology, the social custom mainly embodied in the following two aspects:life custom and etiquette. Life custom includes:food, clothing, shelter and transportation and so on. Etiquette is mainly refers to social etiquette. Due to the rich etiquette content existing in marriage and bury, these two aspects are included under the manner. Social custom and people's real life are closely linked, which is a social and cultural attribute the centralized embodiment.Social customs covers closely related with people all aspects of life, which has the rich cultural connotation. The change of Social customs usually means cultural changes. Specifying to custom itself, it is the change of people's life and thought, and its changes will inevitably give certain influence to other aspects of society. However, the causes of social customs'change are very complex, often from external power intervention.China is a country has diversified national geographic environment and cultural. it makes different level of economic development, and cultural features unbalanced. Therefore, it is a great difference among different regions, and social customs situation is different and unbalanced. Especially in a remote ethic regions influenced by traditional ideas and the state of the economy, social development is slower and social custom has more cultural regional characteristic.The Keliya people are a peoplie of the Uygur,most of them live in Yutian area of Xinjiang. Their culture is one kind of the Uygur's,and also have their own's traits.This paper is based on this special kind of culture and on which is less researched by the academic circles.Tt focus on the social custom of the Keliya people in Daliyaboyi rural area of Yutian.The goal is to introduce this social custom and it's changes.To advance the research on Uygur's culture,it's will analyse the resean of this changes.There are four sections in the paper.In the first section briefly introduces the purpose of the theme and its profound academic significances.There is also a brief introduction about the situation of relevant research previous.There are three parts in the second section.The first part is to introduce the natural and geographical surroundings,administrative office and population of the Keliya people.The second part give a introduction about the past history and the nowadays conditions of the Keliya people.The third part is to introduces the social custom and etiquette of the people.The third part introduces the changes of the social custom in Daliyaboyi rural area.It includes the changes of the naming,circumcision,juwangtuyi,weddingand funeral customsThere are three parts in the fourth section.The first part have the local government built there in 1989 as the sign of the changes.A discuss on the influence by the building of the local government in the second part.A talking over the influence of the outcomers on the changes of the Daliyaboyi rural area.Being a Keliya person,the author know something about the Keliya people,such as its social and natural condions on which the field investigation is comparatively easy taken.To the profound academic significances and the local culture's research and spreading,the author hold a naturtal responsibility on it.But as a Uygur,the author's Chinese is not so well with the study of ethnology and anthropology in a limited of time,yet there must be many errors in this paper,it's the anthor's honor to have being corrected by the experts.