Research On The Historical And Cultural Changes Of Xiaohe Village,Taijiang County

Xiaohe village is a Miao village located by the bala River in Shidong Town,Taijiang County,Qiandongnan Miao and Dong Autonomous Prefecture,Guizhou Province.It is a combination of Xiaohe village and maopo village after the reform of administrative division.Before Yongzheng period of Qing Dynasty,the Miao area where Xiaohe village was located was called "Miao land" by the feudal dynasty.Since the Qing Dynasty Yongzheng changed the land and returned to Liu,the power of the central dynasty began to extend to the Miao people’s residence,which was known as "the place of governing the exogenous Miao people".The Central Plains culture began to spread to it,and the influence of the state on the Miao people’s area continued to deepen.Using the knowledge of history,philology,ethnology,sociology and other disciplines,the author conducted a field survey in Xiaohe village for two months,collected a large number of materials about the history and culture of Xiaohe village,and made full preparation for the discussion of the historical and cultural changes of Xiaohe village.The paper is divided into eight parts.The first part is the introduction,which mainly introduces the reason and significance of the topic,analyzes the related research papers,and points out the key and difficult points,research ideas and research methods of this paper.The second part introduces the natural geographical environment,social and historical situation of Xiaohe village,in order to clarify the geographical situation and cultural background of Xiaohe village.The third part focuses on the contract documents excavated and sorted out in Xiaohe village,trying to restore its economic state at that time and explore its economic changes.On the whole,before 1949,Xiaohe village was still in the traditional small-scale peasant economy.After 1949,especially after 1956,Xiaohe village changed from small-scale peasant economy to collective economy.Since the reform and opening up,with the improvement of infrastructure,the development of economic industry and the expansion of income sources,Xiaohe village has begun to move towards ecological agriculture,migrant workers,industrial economy,rural tourism and other contemporary economic changes.The fourth part focuses on the changes of marriage and funeral ceremony,and discusses the reasons for the changes of marriage and funeral customs in Xiaohe village.As a representative national culture,wedding and funeral customs have strong inheritance and stability.Due to the changes of production and life style and civil society organizations in Xiaohe village,the marriage and funeral customs in Xiaohe village have changed.The custom of marriage and funeral in Xiaohe village has undergone a process of change from heavy to simple,and then to grand,which has been particularly rapid since the reform and opening up.The fifth part from the land worship,"bridge" worship,taboos and legends and other aspects,reveals the changes of folk beliefs in Xiaohe village,to explore the law of change and development of its folk social order and identity.The construction of folk beliefs can play a role in educating local children and people,restraining people’s behavior norms,and meeting people’s spiritual space needs.The villagers’ imagination and construction of natural space reflect their thinking on the social relationship and order between self and other.The sixth part is based on the Yang’s genealogy of Pingmin village in Xiaohe village.Through the construction of ancestral memory,the Yang family shows the process of identification with the country and family.At the same time,in the traditional society,the compilation of genealogy is conducive to the clan to obtain the dominant position in the resource competition,and it is also an internal power and direct demand of the minority clan for the imperial examination and education.In the seventh part,the author thinks about the historical and cultural changes of Xiaohe village from the perspective of the enhancement of national identity and cultural identity.In the face of the country,Xiaohe village will adopt a variety of response ways to express its own demands.At the same time,with the support and protection of national policies,the cultural consciousness and inheritance consciousness of Xiaohe village began to strengthen,and the flow of talents decided the development of history and culture.The eighth part is the conclusion,this paper believes that the historical and cultural changes of Xiaohe village,the interpretation of the inclusiveness of Chinese culture,shows the harmonious atmosphere of the harmonious coexistence of various ethnic cultures in our country,has a certain representativeness.