Research On Wedding Customs Of The Shaowa Tu Nationality In Zhuoni County

Marriage is a symbol of end-result and security for every one of us.It can be seen that it is a major event in our life.The wedding ceremony is also a very important part of life etiquette.People often use various activities to emphasize and commemorate this special moment in life.After long time,it forms a specific ritual activity.Through these ritual activities,we can Learn about the cultural connotations of a certain nation or group from different perspectives.Among them,the marriage customs of the Tu nationality can be said to be one of the distinctive traditional cultures.The wedding process not only includes singing and dancing,but also has rich and complex contents,and because of the different settlement areas,the cultural information loaded has its own characteristics.As a branch of the Tu nationality,the Shaowa Tus ethnic group is located in the northern part of Zhuoni County in Gannan Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture.It has a long history and a rich variety of ethnic cultures.In the course of social development,the marriage and customs culture retains some of the traditional culture of the nation.Some changes have taken place.To this day,the marriage customs of the Shaowa ethnic group still have their own characteristics.However,from the current point of view,most of the research papers on the marriage customs of the Tus people are in the area of mutual assistance in Qinghai,and the research on the marriage customs of the Shaowa people in Gansu Province is still blank.For this reason,the author is based on the study of the Shaowa ethnic group,which is the highlight of this paper.Points and novelties.The papper combines the theory of the marriage customs of the Tu nationality,historical data and field survey data,and elaborates and discusses the marriage circle,the wedding ceremony,the changes of the marriage customs,and the protection of the traditional culture of the Tus ethnic group.The introduction part mainly introduces the reasons for selection and research significance,the status quo of domestic and foreign research on the marriage customs of the Tus,the research methods used in this paper,besides,the research content and framework.In the first chapter,the author summarizes the origin and marriage system of the Tu nationality according to historical data and the origin of the Shaowa Tus ethnic group and conducts a fieldsurvey to explain the current situation of the Shaowa Tus ethnic group.The second chapter analyzes the marital concept of the Shaowa Tus ethnic group and the status of the current marriage circle.The third chapter mainly studies the traditional marriage etiquette and the present basic process of marriage etiquette,which reflects the characteristics and changes of the wedding customs,and from the perspective of anthropology,interpret the characteristics of people or things in the wedding ceremony.The fourth chapter discusses the content,reasons and protection and development of the traditional culture.Finally,the author summarizes the full text and makes further comments on the deficiencies in the author’s writing process.