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On The Traditional Culture Of GuangXi Yao Nationality And Its Development In Contemporary Age

Posted on:2003-09-21Degree:MasterType:Thesis
Country:ChinaCandidate:L F ZhuFull Text:PDF
GTID:2155360065964053Subject:China's modern history
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The Yao nationality is a minority nationality with a larger population among GuangXi's minority nationalities . During their long course of history ,the people of Yao nationality created abundant traditional culture. The importance of its society ran through its whole history. Thus ,the exploration of how to better critically inherit the traditional culture and promote the development of the Yao's society is not only of academic meaning ,but also a great matter concerning the development of millions of Yao people in GuangXi, even in china .On the basis of the basic theories of Marxim-Leninism that the building of socialist new culture can't be separated from the critical inheritance of traditional national culture, universally employing comparative study and investigation methods, through the analysis of rich historical documents and public praise materials, conducting the study and summing up of the traditional culture of the Yao nationality from a macroscopic angle ,this article explores the connotation, basic characters, evolution law and the reason for its origin .And based on this ,this thesis discusses some measures of critically in heriting traditional culture and promoting the building of the society.There are ten parts in all in this thesis.Based on the research into rich historical documents and material of GuangXi'Yao nationality .The first part summarizes three characters of its traditional culture :variative complexity ,the nature of involvement and its strong ability of condensation .These three characters decide and affects the basic appearance of the traditional culture of the yao nationality in a high degree.On this basis, the other parts from the second to the tenth furtherly proke into ten aspects of the traditional culture which possesses obvious national characters from a microscopic point of view ,summarie relevant regular characters and accordingly put forward some measures to transform, take advantage of and exploit the culture at the present age.The second and third part observe and study such materialistic and cultural levels as traditional life, dress and diet of the Yao nationality .This article explores its traditional economic life and its effect on its society, and summarizes three regular characters of its traditional economic life :imbalance, self-suffiency and migration .On above basis this article provides some measures to improve the economic life of the Yao and industry ,develop their economy ,namely scientific planting ,the exploitation of national the liberality of minds and the change of ideas ,etc. The observation and study of traditional dress and diet of this nationality summarizes relevant regular characters: the traditional dress of the Yao people is the mixture of their traditional life pattern, primitive worship and national historical culture .Their traditional diet is basedon their traditional production and life pattern and it includes some primitive customs, fendal ethical ideas and consciousness of patriarchal men's rights. Hence this article discusses value of the traditional dress culture of the Yao nationality ,speed the economic construction of the Yao area ,improve their intellectual level and establish scientific and civilized diet ideas.The parts from the fourth to the sixth explore the Yao nationality's social cultural levels such as politics, marriage and family, and festival . After certain summary and comparison, this article points out: the traditional political culture of the Yao nationality takes on such characters as being in groups ,audio-visuality. And regionalism ,its traditional marriage and family possess . Such characters as marriage customs left over from primitive times, feadal effect ,and extraordinary abundance. Its traditional festivals have such characters as closely relating to productive labor, religious belief and obvious regional characters. According to these characters, under Jiang ZeMin's instructions of developing advanced culture , at present we can take the following measures to critically inherit...
Keywords/Search Tags:GuangXi, Yao Nationality, culture, development
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