The Research Of Women's Adult Education On Tujia People's Kujia Custom

Tujia people is a minority who lives in the zone where xiang,e,yu,qian meet together. It does not have literal, so oral instruction had been the main education for a long time. For the influence of son preference, even if school was introduced, women still had no chance to learning in school. As the most important ceremony in women's life, Kujia play a important role in Tujia women' growth and their lives, at the same time, to some extent it maintains social stability and promotes Tujia social development.However, with the development of communication among various people being more frequent, Tujia people has not been a enclosed minority and there are some changes in traditional culture. Nowadays, cultural heritage of ethnic minorities is taken more seriously in society, and how to analyze, distinguish and valuate kujia custom is a worthy subject. To research Kujia custom has some theoretical and practical significance about the preservation and transmission of Kujia custom. Therefore, the problems about the elements, significance, value, content, aims and methods and so on are discussed systematically in the thesis.Kujia custom is a communicative activity from cultural perspectives. Ethnologically, Kujia is Tujia women's puberty rite, and is one of the most important rites in Tujia women's lives. Kujia promotes the socialization of Tujia women from social perspectives. Kujia is a special educational activity from an educational point of view. Based on the educational theory, there exists some enlightening significance from the following aspects. Firstly, Kujia not only promotes the individual's development, but also promotes social stability, cultural transmission from the educational valuable point of view. Secondly, Kujia's aims are the process of growth in light of Tujia culture such as women's social role, identity and status. Thirdly, the content of Kujia custom consists of women's life experience and moral principles. Fourthly, Kujia is a activity that the marriage is the center of it and the educational activity possesses some features such as environmental feature, cognitive feature, and games. Lastly, the oral method, the method of environmental influences and empirical method are the main methods in the activity of Kujia custom, at the same time, it also has some features about livelihood, sensibility, and experience.Above all, there are some positive significance and negative significance about Kujia custom in the aspects of the development of society , the preservation and transmission of Tujia people's culture, and the growth of Tujia people women.