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A Study On The Characteristics Of Southern Dong's Traditional Culture

Posted on:2007-05-23Degree:DoctorType:Dissertation
Country:ChinaCandidate:J X LiaoFull Text:PDF
GTID:1117360182494201Subject:Ethnology
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The Dong Nationality call themselves "Kam" .They are one of China's official fifty-five minority nationalities. At the time of the 2000 census, the Dong population was 296.0293 million. The people were mostly concentrated in the areas where Guizhou, Hunan and Guangxi meet.The southern Dong is singleton special conception by way of research on the national culture, it indicates a cultural geographical area which uses south talk of Dong language and Dong people those have lived in here all the time, the area is in the south of the Qingshui River on Jinpin country in Guizhou province. Because that degree of the north Dong's acculturation was deeper, and its culture change was quicker, apart from language factor outside, there are some obvious differences about their societies and culture between the south dialect area and the northern dialect area, so that formed two partial cultural system with substantial or exterior discrepancy, cause the cultural appearance, culture landscape, custom, literature and art those belonged to them have the regional characteristic each other. Traditional culture special features of Dong or the original cultural ecosystem are more completely keeping in the southern district. Before the twenty century middle period, a large of villages in south still reserved some typical model landscapes of traditional culture, such as national festivals, customs and habits, early social organization, common law, life style, thought method, national mentality, concept of value, all of them had not occurred much variations. In particular, drum town, flower bridge and choral songs is representative of those have the marking deal with the race culture and character color of original living the culture contents, they were passed and continued in the southern Dong's traditional culture system, they also made up of main connotations belonging to the southern Dong's traditional cultures, among them, some main characters are contained.This disquisition took orders the opposite position of culture, the doctrine of the diverse of culture, and primarily adopted the practical and realistic analyzing method, with some thorough and objective materials, to analyse and expatiate a few aspects for the intensions of the southern Dong's traditional cultures. We grasped the premise about the natural ecosystem environment that the culture were existed, refer to the whole integral development of China nationality and basic evolution of human society, compared the similarities and differences among the cultures in the southern Dong and the northern Dong, anatomized concretely the original and historical appearance of the southern Dong's traditional cultures, and its main characteristics.The thesis can be generalized to three parts. In the first part, we put great emphasis on diachronic, surveyed the problem when Dong nationality had formed and where it came from, also regarded to the difference of culture in the southern Dongand the northern Dong. In the second part, then from the angle of synchrony, dissertated the total characteristic of southern Dong's traditional culture, its expressive modalities and its cause of formation;Analyzed the construction, characteristic, function of the traditional thought method;Explained the basic race consciousness and the basic cultural mentality, the characteristics of the both, hi the third part, we utilized the method that combined diachronic and synchrony together, probed into the economic culture type and its multi-culvert, together with the individuality of agricultural culture, one step by step;We analysised the structure, characteristic, function of traditional mode of thinking, the concrete content, characteristic of the race consciousness and culture mental state that traditional culture contained;We considered the questions inside of political culture, such as "bu la" ( "#Ih" ) system and its functions, its characteristics;the functions and characteristics of "he kuan" ( " -ï¿¡ï¿¡fc " ) organization and "Dong kuan" ( " JHiC" ) system;the contents and characteristics of the "kuan yue" ( "i^^J" ) unwritten law;We put forward the individual opinions about the culture of drum-town architecture in the southern Dong, its characteristics and values;together with the symbol matter of the culture of drum-town, its metaphorical significance, its ritual of self-identity.
Keywords/Search Tags:the southern Dong, traditional culture, characteristic
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