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The Study On Hmong Residence And Building Custom In ShanHu Town West Hubei

Posted on:2011-02-13Degree:MasterType:Thesis
Country:ChinaCandidate:C Q LuoFull Text:PDF
GTID:2132330338982984Subject:Folklore
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As the larger a minority, the Hmong pattern of diversity and unity in the Chinese place, the cause of cultural preservation and heritage should be subject to public attention. However, due to five large-scale national migration history, and live together with other brothers and the great national and small settlements in the distribution status, in the economic globalization today, Hmong outstanding traditional culture as something unknown in the state of the verge of destruction. To enhance the Hmong people's cultural self-confidence and strengthen their ethnic identity, most Hmong custom features Diaojiao building residential housing were naturally selected to protect intangible cultural heritage of the Hmong object.To understand the culture of an ethnic group must first understand its formation. The so-called ethnic groups, is "by a common language, religion, beliefs, practices, secular, ethnic, historical and geographical factors such as socio-cultural groups form." Hmong as a foreign population, since the move after the Western Hubei, with the local Han people, Tujia ethnic group interaction took place, forming a national identity, both cultural and geographical features. Hmong Nationality beam over the ceremony in the formation of the core housing customs process, also gives rise to the associated with food, clothing, folk customs, taboos series.A national custom has been able to generate and spread, certainly because it contains specific cultural content and have the value required for the function of people's lives, Hmong traditional residential housing practices is no different. The Hmong living in the Western Hubei housing for the life of people as the event, the process is very sacred. Beam songs and Art is the desire and the creation of life, permeated with the rich folk culture, space deified aesthetic culture, covering the Western Hubei Hmong survival, disease trends, nourishing, pray, ensuring peace and so will life. Beam Hmong primitive religious ceremony is the concentrated expression of polytheism. The housing program can be divided into optional wuji, rack Malaysia, volleyball fan, beam, mounted housing, financial security doors, set fire pit and other multi-channel program.However , agriculture industrialization and rural towns as the symbol of Chinese modernization, the Hmong traditional practices are taking place in residential housing decline of the changes. To this end, as the cultural heritage of the Hmong people who can not stick to conventions of the main and only allowed to combine with modern building technology, the concept of residence times to meet their own traditional practices that residential housing can be non-material cultural heritage protection and heritage. Hmong intangible cultural heritage protection and actively develop the national economy,will become the Hmong people's culture to enhance self-confidence and strengthen their ethnic identity in an effective way.
Keywords/Search Tags:ShanHu Town, Hmong, Folk beliefs, Building Custom
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