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Tang Dynasty Chang'an Family The Basic Necessities Of Customs Changes

Posted on:2011-12-15Degree:MasterType:Thesis
Country:ChinaCandidate:Y F SunFull Text:PDF
GTID:2205360305968646Subject:History of Ancient China
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The Tang Dynasty is the heyday in the development of china's Feudal Society, while its politics, economics and culture have attracted wide interest of Chinese and foreign scholars. The study of the social life history of the Tang Dynasty has also been a major concern in recent years, and has achieved fruitful results.However,few researchers have involved the study of the four essential requirements of the people in Tang social life (clothing,food,housing and transportation), especially from a particular perspective of urban families in a specific period. The study of the changes of custom in the basic necessities of life in chang'an families plays a leading part in the study of social life history, as family is the cell of society.Therefore, if you would like to make a research on Tang Dynasty, you can concentrate on the study of basic necessities of life, put it in the particular context of the time, through the concern to specific areas of specific dynasties make family as a unit and begin with the changes of custom. That would be a unique research perspective.The first part of the paper, the Introduction mainly introduces the present status of the academic study of basic custom in Tang Dynasty. On this basis,the writer sets out the significance of the topic,the reason for choosing the capital Chang'an as a research focus area,the way to divide the social classes,and the period of changing process in the basic necessities of capital Chang'an families. Meanwhile,the writer makes some innovations.In the second part,the changing procer of clothing,food,housing and transportation is discussed in detail in sub-Tang Dynasty,Tang Dynasty, Middle and Late Tang Dynasty three periods of time.And also,the reasons for some changes are interspersed betaeen the lines. The concrete and thorough description of the changing reasons is set out in the third part, which has a main discussion in the common cause of custom changes in chang'an families.At the end of the thesis comes to the conclusion a brief summary of the changes in the basic necessities of life of Chang'an families.What the writer concludes are the laws and disseminative channels of the changes.what's more, the study is of great significance in the cons traction of socialism.
Keywords/Search Tags:The Tang Dynasty, Families in Chang'an, the basic necessities of life, the changes of custom
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