Study On The Custom And Human Feelings Of The Xinjiang Hans In The Period Of The Qing Dynasty

In the period of the Qing Dynasty, the central government ploughed the field and reunified the Sinkiang region over again, which has separated from central regime for centuries. A lot of the Han people, who are official, soldiers, farmers, businessmen and exiled prisoner, swarmed into there after that. Another waves of westward immigrants came forth again. With the movement of immigrants, one side the custom and human feelings of the Hans gradually spread all around which affected and changed xinjiang region's custom and human feelings. On the other hand,the Hans absorbed and fused minorities' local conditions and customs, to some extent they transferred their original customs. Regional habits and customs came into being step by step. In Qing Dynasty, it became one of the most important scenes of xinjiang human's culture. Now we can also find the trails of the special folklore from Hans. To some sense, modern Han's customs has partial formed and rooted the folk-custom this time. Based on large number of first－hand materials and productions, this paper draw the outline of social custom of the xinjiang Hans people in Qing Dynasty. It consists of four parts. Namely, the first part briefly introduces the source and distributing of the Han nationality in xinjiang, which provides the background of the mores. The second part dwells on the customs of substance life, which includes aspects of producing and basic necessities of life, especially after unification which began to improve with the economy coming back. The third part is the emphases of the paper, which included customs of sacrificing to gods or ancestors of mountains, rivers and jinn' and of entertainment. The chapter studied the spirit folkway, which bases on the inland Hans' complex mind course that gave birth to migrate from thousand kilometers away and entered into the completely strange surroundings. The four part described festival marital and mortuary customs of the xinjiang Han nationality in the Qing Dynasty. Folklore has characteristic of tradition and region. In the Qing Dynasty, xinjiang unique social setting created this kind of culture. The paper combined the techniques of history sociology and folklore. It taste to touch the new field of Han people conventions during the great historical progressions of developing xinjiang in the Qing Dynasty. The aim of the thesis, in the viewpoint of history, is to prove that the culture of Confucians was included the Western Regions culture which has distinguishing feature. The history of xinjiang was created by every nationality of xinjiang, including the Hans nationality. It had a lot of difficult to write the disquisition. Firstly, there are seldom productions to use for referencing. Secondly, information on the subject collected and studied insufficiency, which sporadically appeared and collected it very difficultly. Some social customs only can be found in exiled officeholders diaries. But it was regretful that they had recorded it with book-phrase. According to this recordation, it is impossible to bring out complete picture of the xinjiang Han's nationality folklore. Although the writer try her best to collect the data can be touched liking to haul the net, I also felt the information can be consulted too limited. The regrets only will be made up when the new information are found.