A Study On Muslim Literature By Ting Family In Chendai Town, Fujian Province

The Ting Family in Chendai Town, Quanzhou City of Fujian Province, famous for its typical Muslim literature, has populous familial members and particular characteristics of locality and history. This paper employs the combination method of locality and family to elaborate the influence on Ting's Muslim literature affected by geographical and familial factors from the angle of familial culture. Analysis focuses on the adaptive adjustment during the process to protect ethnical literature. Further study goes on the creative characteristics and causes of formation.The first chapter is the basis of exposition. Proper names such as"family","familial culture","cultural family","literature family","literature flow","Muslim literature","Muslim literature family"are defined in this part and examples are shown to explain the paradigm and particularity, which is also the reason and significance of this paper.The second chapter is the body of the paper. It talks about the profound geographical influence to Ting's family by the culture around Fujian province, the cultural reasons to take in the Han's religion systems when moved to Han residential place, the significance of historical change and multi-social culture tendency to Ting's prosperity during the alternation between Ming and Qing, the analysis on the main cultural components like familial economy, ancestral hall, familial fete and amendment of family tree and the permanent familial cultural core, that is valued culture, strict discipline and Muslim belief.The third chapter is the case analysis. Ting Yi, Ting Zishen, Ting Wei are all typical writers in different history period of Ting family. Their life is described individually to analyze their typical work. Their writing experience and literature style reflect Ting family's cultural characteristics and tendency.The fourth chapter is the summary. From the analysis of Literature by Ting Family in Chendai Town, creative characteristics and cause of formation can be concluded in the end of the paper.