The Study On The Evolution And Feminine Marriage And Procreation Customs Of Zhuang Nationality In Guangxi Province

The folk culture of Chinese women was formed gradually by women of all ethnic groups in China in their long historical process of development. It includes many aspects of women's customs: food, clothing, shelter and transportation——basic necessities of life, customs of production, arts and crafts, customs of wedding and other rituals, customs of procreation, etc. The women marriage and procreation are the most important part of the folklore life. Our country marriage folklore is diversed. The marriage customs are very mysterious and colourful , whether the wedding taking song as matchmaker, nor the wedding of "Mosuo". Women's greatest contribution is creating the lives. According to the whole customs of breeding , suckling , infant's ritual and adult's ritual, women are reinventing themselves while pregnanting , they are reinventing themselves while moulding the life. The Zhuang nationality is a society which feminine culture is outstanding. The Zhuang women play the important roles in the family and economic life. The basic reason what they are outstanding is that they have the important roles in the family. The feminine culture has been imprinted deeply, whether the wedding taking song as matchmaker, nor the wedding of the bridegroom marrying into his bride's family, the wedding of not living on the husband. As the most representative village of the thirteen traditional Zhuang nationality villages, Longji village, the village of Longsheng in Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region remains a lot of customs. We can enjoy the folksongs on the traditional wedding. The "Sanzhao"feast is one of the most important activity in the Longji village. The young people of the Longji village have obtained the marital independence right, the bad habits such as the early marrage, dominating marrage has already been expelled. The limition of the consanguinity, nationality , region has been broken by the modern marriage . The marriage has added the new elements while keeping the tradition characteristic. From the representative case of Longji village, the article has combined the others documents in local Zhuang, and has discussed the changes of the marriage and procreation customs of Longji ,and analyzed the internal and external factor of leading to change. We should understand the meaning of the customs deeply. The article is based on the "fieldwork"and "deep describe". It uses these theories to analyze the wedding taking song as matchmaker, early marriage , the wedding of the bridegroom marrying into his bride's family, the wedding of not living on the husband, the wedding ritual, intermarry area, the dowry, divorcing, procreation tabu and "Sanzhao"feast etc. From the analyse of the case , the author think that the countryside culture and feminine folklore lives have been taken place rapidly under the great background. Longji village is the village of existing various culture , it's traditional marriage and procreation have been great changed. It is including that the dominate wedding had been expelled, people choose their marriage freely; the notion of choosing the spouse has been changed greatly; the academic ability becomes the new standard of choosing spouse; the Longji village women went out of their family ,appearing in the city, even have gone abroad. Their procreation idea have been changed greatly, the "equality"replace the original idea of "men as superior to women", "little and excellent"replace "more procreation ". Folklore culture is the true reflection and records of the social life. From the changes of the marriage and procreation customs of Longji, we can see the Zhuang women's customs have been accumulated for a long time ,not coming into being in a short time .At the same time ,we can see that young people are the urgers of the new life style and concept, they will become the leader of spreading of the traditional culture.