A Research On Anqing's Folk Custom In MingQing Period

Anqing's folk custom in MingQing period involved many aspects in people's ordinary life. It had its own characteristics. It mainly included area difference, historical inheritance, periodic, social as well as industry difference in the same region, psychological difference.This paper stands on the base of the Anqing's folk custom materials in MingQing and combine the modern ethnology theory (specially region ethnology theory) to analyze and discuss about the reason of the Anqing's folk custom's formation and it's functions. The economic situation of Anqing was the basic reason for Anqing's folk custom while the politics, environment, leader, the religion, the psychology, the custom in other place had the varying degree influenceon the Anqing's folk custom formation. All aspects of Anqing's folk custom were a part of the people's ordinary life. For it's wide social action, people paid many attention to it. Anqing folk custom in MingQing period, it's function mainly manifests in entertainment, polymerization, education, social norm, psychological adjustment.