| Yugur Ethnic group has a long history and its history and culture is the reflection of the tribal ethnic groups in Central Eurasia. The Yugurs underwent the history of wars, immigration, divide, fusion and its flourish and decays. Tragedies and comedies shifted on the historical stage, in which Yugur people developed their own unique ethnic culture with distinctive genealogical features. This paper attempts to analyze and elucidate the Yugurs' history, religion, language, marriage custom and literary genealogy from the chapter 2 to the chapter 6.In religious belief, the Yugurs and its ancestors once believed in different religions: Shamanism, Zoroastrianism, Manichaeism and Han's Buddhism and Tibetan Buddhism, and finally converted to Tibetan Buddhism. Such hybrid type of religious culture is the distinctive feature of Yugur's religion, which is either the key link in Yugur's history, or is one of the dominant factors causing the weakening tendency of its religion.In letters and language, the Yugurs are now using the Chinese Characters without their own letters, mainly using three languages: Eastern Yugur dialect, Western Yugur dialect and Chinese. Places where the different dialects used can be roughly classified into Yugur-Chinese bilingual area, eastern and western Yugur-Chinese multi-lingual area and Chinese monolingual area (Yugur language losing area). In the modern language circumstance, the Yugurs generally hold the positive attitude towards their own language, which is varied with Yugur language used area and the Yugur dweller's difference.Marriage customs of the Yugurs is classified into formal marriage and informal marriage, which are constrained or influenced by the following dominant factors: economy, religion, the left customs of matriarchy, traditional culture etc. the wedding ceremony undergoes five parts: carrying the bribe to, making fire on the midway, Riding horses around the tent, entering the bridegroom's tent and witnessing the wedding, which reflecting the process of leaving-isolating-fusing of the bride and the future mother-in-law. The customs is the heritage of history and traditional culture.The folk literature records the transformations of history, society, culture and religion of the Yugurs, sagas mainly originated from the primitive beliefs and ancient religious consciousness; narrative poems keep the trace of the Yugurs' history and eternal memory of the ancestors. In the folk literary genealogy, myth and narrative poems can not be clearly separated or irrelevant, but mixed with many elements-religion, history, wars and life, etc.Since 1980s, the Yugurs life witnessed an unprecedented change. This paper employs the field research to reflect the great social change, beside the language transform in the chapter 4, the chapter 7 mainly analyzes the family transformation in the Yugurs family in countryside. The findings through historical documents and field research show that the Yugurs gradually settle down under the influence of many factors such as public policies, but the husbandry production still can not be separate from their pastures, which finally caused the separate of production site and settling site. This separation directly caused the transformation of the Yugurs' family and society. Under the special background of site-separation, the traditional culture of the Yugurs experienced great changes, and demonstrated the tendency of disconnection and co-existence of multi-culture.The unique history and culture of the Yugurs is the best sample of analysis and studies on cultural genealogy. This paper employs the analytical method and the speech form with the language context of modernity, building up the bridge between the ethnic group with special culture and the western civilization, and finally attempting to shed light on the tendency or direction of cultural evolutions of the Yugurs, or even the Chinese minorities- the way of endogenous modernization, through analytical method of cultural genealogy in the modern narrative frame.
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