Research Of The Nationality Community Culture Changes Among The Northwest Cities

After the Reformation and influenced by Global-Whole organic, SocialismMarketing Economy and rapid progress of people's material civilization, thenever-happened frequently and closely changes is happening in cultural spread andcommunication among nations. As to the minor population nation living in thenorthwest area, these changes can also be known as extensively and deeply inpeople's lives. The thesis will take Hui Nationality which is one of the Minorities inGansu Province in Northwest area, as a representative example and try to discoverhow the changes are happening in ideological progress and material civilization, andwhat kinds of reasons may cause these changes. The research may start from severalparts such as religious culture, food culture, marriage culture changes, and try to findout what kind of reason causes these changes. Below the great time background ofnational economy developing, traditional national culture protection andNational-Harmony Development building, this kind of research will play an importantrole in theory and reality meanings.For a long time, study and research in Hui Nationality's history and culture canbe so many in amounts. However, the researches which focusing on the reasons ofchanges on the material civilization and spiritual civilization, and how they arereflecting in the microcosmic way, can be found very less. The thesis may start fromthe view of Hui Nationality's Community culture changes, basing on the formerresearchment, with the long period of on-the-spot investigation or field work,combing with many kinds of science and theory such as ethologic and social sciences,and also contain the data which was obtained in the progress of Hui NationalityCommunity culture investigation, to finish the whole frame of the thesis.The thesis will use qualitative research and interviewing, ethnography, standardanalysis and positivism analysis together and other science tools. Through the fieldwork of M and Q Communities in Lanzhou, and try to discover the inner causes.From the beginning of the thesis, the author describes the background of theselected topic and related researching problem, the intention and meanings of research, and then identifies the basic concepts, research methods and the analysis frameworkon the basis of summarizing correlative literature. Through the description of thecommunity changes on religious culture, food cultures, and marriage culture,according to the comparison of the differences of the national community culturechanges before and after the Reformation, try best to describe how the changes go inHui Nationality community culture. And try to find out the cultural changes andmeasure dimension.