A Comparative Study Of Crying Wedding Songs Between Kazak And Tujia Nationality

Crying marriage is a special wedding custom of many ethnic minorities,as well as a special cultural landscape."Crying wedding song" is a specific product of this marriage custom.Due to the different wedding customs of different ethnic groups,it is also different in personality,but all have their own characteristics.They are completed by "singing" and "crying",the content is very broad and the tone is very sad,which conveys sincere emotion.and has great artistic fascination.Based on the existing research results of the Kazak and Tujia mono-ethnic group "crying marriage song",I collected hundreds of texts,taking crying marriage as the study object,this paper uses scientific theories and methods such as folklore and folk literature to conduct in-depth comparative research and analysis on crying marriage under these two ethnic groups different social and cultural backgrounds,summarizes their characteristics of "crying marriage song",and concludes the great influence of Chinese traditional culture on the Chinese ethnic groups and the importance of the ethnic culture inheritance.In addition to the introduction and conclusion,this paper mainly includes five parts:The first part is the Kazak and Tujia "cry marriage song" overview.It mainly analyzes the life style,history and customs of the two ethnic groups from the perspective of nomadic culture and farming culture,also summarizes the differences between the traditional "crying wedding song" and the modern one.The second part is Tujia "crying wedding song" and its special list.In this part,the author makes a theoretical analysis of Tujia crying marriage procedure and its object according to the previous research results and related scholars’confession.The third part is the Kazakh crying wedding ceremony and its unique"crying wedding song".This part also makes a comprehensive analysis of the Kazakh folk songs,the procedures of crying marriage and its objects according to the literature records and the actual text,also gives examples one by one to highlight the unique characteristics of each content.The fourth part is about the common ground between the Kazak and Tujia crying marriage ceremony and "crying marriage song".This part mainly finds out the common point in the "crying marriage song" and the custom of crying marriage from the four aspects include formation reason,content,form and inheritance.The fifth part is the difference between the Kazak and Tujia crying marriage ceremony and "crying marriage song".This part,like the fourth part,starts from the differences between nomadic culture and farming culture,also summarizes the differences between the two ethnic groups in the "crying marriage song" and the customs of crying marriage.