Marriage Consumption And The Village Social And Cultural Changes

Consumption is a kind of behavior, a system, a kind of exchange, one person is main body, the matter is object, it manifests the village social networks, it can also show village family structure and relative system. Marriage consumption as a rural ceremony consumption, household consumption, is an important consumer of content of consumption structure of rural areas is an important part of rural social culture, but also the emphasis of research. The village of more quantitative shows marriage consumption, diversification and diversified characteristics. The author tries to study the consumer culture from the village of marriage perspective,60 years of village (1950-2010) marriage custom changed, marriage transformation, resource exchange ideas with symbols, such as the function of the evolution of rural social culture, analyzes in detail the village social culture marriage consumption and the interactive relationships between the village social culture changes and interpretation of history.For the study of the village social culture in 1980s has many the anthropologists, historians been studied. LinYaoHua's Jiang Cun Jing Ji, Fei Xiaotong's Xiang Tu Zhong Guo and Sheng Yu Zhi Du, Zhuang KongShao's Yin Chi are the village social culture, not only is a certain description, and comparative study, tracking survey, villages, and research into more rich life. The author studies towards diversifying research direction, it also just had this idea of today.This paper is taking ChongQing pillars of TuJia autonomous county of Tuia inhabit a village where the ShiLong village, using village anthropological fieldwork, depth interview, literature search methods for the village, since liberation marriage consumption changes were investigated. Mainly to the community, marriage, marriage etiquette change conception change and Betrothal and Dowry exchange and evolution and so on, and makes a detailed explanation of the reasons for its cultural change analysis, elaborate marriage consumption and social culture changes, meanwhile, the interaction between current consumption of rural marriage forward myself suggestions.This study are selected community, and county towns, closer distances, social change is more apparent, at the same time, this community for minority of TuJia nationality, with a certain representative. A case research is aimed at a small place, but the small place is part of the great society, in our overall civilized society can have been represented. This study selected in such a rapidly changing process of natural villages with its own unique advantages and characteristics, and it is a certain typicality,too. Although this community doesn't represent China in the panorama, can also achieve woodcarvings, in small local perspective big social research purpose, so it could achieve our research,can be universal and representative meaning in some extent.