The Research Of Dowry Cultural Change In Hefei Area

Marriage Culture of human social life as a cultural phenomenon in different regions and different nations have different performance. Dowry culture as part of marriage culture system plays a very important position in human development. The thesis regards change in dowry culture as the object of study and finishes case study in Hefei area, through literature search, questionnaires, interviews and other methods of field work to collect a large number of first-hand information on the Hefei, area, and based on date detailed information on before and after the making of a nation date of the change in the analysis and interpretation, aims to expound the deep meaning through observe and describe the culture in Hefei area, and try to make the future direction of prediction.The author clearly defines the contents of the dowry culture which includes the dowry type, size of dowry, dowry providers, escort patterns, dowry items with local characteristics and habits and so on. The thesis selected three dimensions, before the ma-king of nation, after the making of nation and opening up reform, and made a specific description in three dimensions around the dowry of the content, scale, escort patterns, psychological status, while the author analyzes dowry subject, dowry function, and dowry-related symbols, dowry change factor in depth and detailed analysis. First, in traditional society, the number of women does not have a voice in marriage about dowry contents or type, It is basically the decision by their parents, But with the development of the times and social progress, female consciousness gradually awakening, and have a more autonomy in dowry, female's social status and family status has improved. Second, "zisun tong" "kang zhangzi" and "yaxing qian"""and "song qin" are closely related to symbols in the dowry culture, but in a high degree of civilization of today, its symbolic significance has changed, and even some of its functions have disappeared, but people still want these incorporated into the scope of a dowry, That is the influence of traditional culture still exist, even in a short time will not disappear in some areas, the author analyzes these symbol the system have cultural significance of fertility and analyze. Third, the article focuses on three part that traditional culture, social development, geographical to explained which has impacted on the change of dowry culture in Hefei area. In order to explained the change of dowry culture not only occur from the inside, more is relation between marriage custom of Hefei with some other regional cultures. Finally, according to the development trend in recent years in Hefei area, and analyzes the dowry will be towards a more pluralistic direction.