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Central University For Nationalities Ethnic Festivals, Cultural Functions

Posted on:2011-03-22Degree:MasterType:Thesis
Country:ChinaCandidate:C F KongFull Text:PDF
GTID:2199360308980488Subject:Chinese minority education
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Festival is the colorful flower on the tree of life. It is the happy melody to the social groups and in the heart of every member. In the long history, China has formed colorful culture of festival in the process, the festival culture of minorities being more mysterious and attractive. There are not only celebratory and recreational activities in the festival. The nation's history, legends, rituals, economic activities, arts, ethics, and prayers, taboos, and other activities will be fully developed in activities to commemorate the festival. Traditional festival is actually a concentrated display and a vivid big class of national traditional culture. The Culture of National Traditional Festivals not only plays an important function to educate the youth of National Traditional culture, but also plays an educational role in infiltration of national identity.Minzu University of china is the highest in China's national institution of higher education, as a concentrated national Grand View Garden, its teaching, research and school culture, creating a unique cultural space that provided opportunities for each nation's culture and students to display and develop. In Minzu University, its culture of festivals is very colorful because of ethnic diversity. Among them, traditional festival of minority nationalities is an unusual part of everyday life in Minzu University, having a distinct significance. This blend of life on festival is an anti-structure, and promotes unique cultural space and order to construct in Minzu University. The school system and festival culture formed a good two-way interaction and construction in Minzu University. Therefore putting out a research in Minzu University about the culture of minorities'traditional festivals, showing the process of its function realization, reflecting the multi-party voice and putting forward a theoretical interpretation is beneficial on both theory and practice. The basic idea of the research is:First, from Field of view, take care of the festival world of the Minzu University, describe the unique culture ecological environment and festival system, and then select a different type of festival to describe the specific scene, contextualize the idiographic and actual situation on festivals.Second, interpret three thematic viewpoints of school administrators, event organizers and key participants, presenting the main voice.The final part is to analyze the system of traditional ethnic festivals and put forward theoretical interpretation, summing up its functions, which mainly are symbolic function, emotional contact function, entertainment function, structure and order construction function, culture heritage educating function and function of strengthening the identity of nationality and ethnic, etc. The realization of these functions is interrelated, interdependent, actualizing through the process of festival activities.In a word, traditional festival culture of minority nationalities being a vivid and efficient way to put forward the multi-culture education plays an irreplaceable role in constructing campus culture, collectivity memory, united nationality and multi-culture education.
Keywords/Search Tags:cultural space, ethnic traditional festivals, festival culture, function
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