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Marriage Etiquette And Custom And Cultural Connotation About Anhui Province Jieshou Xicheng District

Posted on:2011-08-05Degree:MasterType:Thesis
Country:ChinaCandidate:C Z JiangFull Text:PDF
GTID:2189360305973208Subject:Folklore
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China is one of the four ancient civilizations, Chinese culture of several thousand years of history of development and changes, while the marriage etiquette and custom of Chinese cultural as an integral part of the long river of history are constantly exchange, penetration, fusion."A thousand different wind, different customs Barry", the paper take the western district of Jieshou city in Anhui Province as the case study of "field", and based on participant observation, deep interviews and other research methods, combined with relevant literature to do a comprehensive study on the region marriage etiquette and custom.In this paper, in order to have a more clear understanding of this district, the author studied marriage etiquette and custom in all the circumstances surrounding from the folklore point of view. It is the basic idea of this paper to trace the source and understand marriage etiquette and custom of Western District Jieshou City in Anhui Province. The paper is divided into four parts.The first chapter defines the concept of marriage and explains the etiquette and custom. According to Morgan summed up the era of human primitive family of five categories of discuss briefly the origin of change, reflecting the form of human marriage to civilization from ignorance behind the development process of marriage.Study a particular area of marriage customs, must understand and recognize the region's natural environment which nature, economic and cultural environment, so the second chapter focus on the research of nature, economic and cultural environment in this District.The third Chapter selects one of the wedding ceremonies of Western District of Jieshou City in Anhui Province as the study case, taking the marriage etiquette and custom as the major study subject, combined with other literature to deep description. In the whole process of marriage, in addition to follow the "six rites of marriage" also inherited a number of ancient ritual innovation, such as sending parents, bridal chamber, etc., particularly in this region, interprets the unique folklore of marriage etiquette and custom, and discusses the causes and consequences of heritage, social impact.Marriage is an important part of human culture, the forth chapter analyses a number of marriage etiquette and custom, other local cultural functionalism of western district of Jieshou City of Anhui Province to show their characteristics of the times.
Keywords/Search Tags:Marriage, etiquette and custom, cultural connotation
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