A Research On The Qiang Nationality Society's Etiquette

this research takes the folklore theory as a foundation, and a the Qiang national minority stockaded village as a instance, with the method which unifies using the folklore field work and the sociological questionnaire survey, thoroughly and systematically studied the The Qiang national minority society's etiquette and its the operational condition. It also reached the organic integration of diachronic research and relative research as a whole. It uses the sociology, the religious study, the psychology etc. that involves the multi-disciplinary knowledge, and achieved the comprehensive research request. With regard to the research technique, this research begins with details on The Qiang nationality's typical individuals, expanding layer upon layer, from point to whole, and analyzed the The Qiang nationality's etiquette change and the development from the different angle of view. Then, from this, it rises to the sociological theory altitude, and discussed the The Qiang national minority society's law of development under the new times, and meanwhile pointed out the present problems and proposed some positive effective strategies.The first chapter mainly has made the discussions of the concept of the Qiang nationality etiquette, which is the folklore traditional research object, as well as the very important position in the folklore research. Regardless of studies in the Qiang nationality in the folklore nature research, studies from the angle of folklore which carries on with the Qiang nationality's etiquette still did not appear. From this point, this research conducting the research from the folklore angle to the Qiang nationality 's etiquette is the initial attempt, and of creative significance.The second chapter carries on the literature aspect commentary to the Qiang nationality's etiquette research condition, and proposes according to the folklore theory the research frame and the basic supposition. It carries on the brief explanation for the choice of the research place, technique and process. The studies also make the descriptions and the analysis of the housing area and its representation.The third chapter is key point of this research, which elaborated the course, the process, the characteristics, the function, the essential factor and the operation mechanism of the Qiang nationality's etiquette from different aspects. The fourth chapter discusses the question which faced in the modernization of the Qiang nationality, and puts forward the proposal. The fifth chapter makes a brief summary of the problems existing in the contribution of this research.