Chinese National Classics Of Cultural Research With Social And Political Systems

China is a unified country with many ethnic groups and is one of the earliest civilized nations in the world. The 56 ethos together created the prosperous and splendid cultures and illustrious science and technology in the process of the historical development. However, because of the restrictions of the natural and geographic conditions and the "convention administration" policy of past dynasties, the social and economic development of the regions of ethnic groups is extremely imbalanced. Before 1950's, pre-capitalism social patterns (primitive society, slave society and feudalism society) are maintained in these regions to different degrees, which is the "alive fossil" of the history of the social development. The social and political systems and the social framework of the ethnic groups present diversity to adapt the complicated social patterns of the ethos. Discussing the social patterns and their transition to the socialism of ethnic groups of China can help us recognize the common law of each ethnic group, which makes great contribution to the common prosperity of the whole nation.This dissertation will try to analyze the typical ethnic social and political systems from the point view of religion and culture. This is because religion is a universal phenomenon that happened to every nation of the world. Religion has penetrated into every behavior of people since the primitive society. Religion has profound influence on the political,economic and cultural fields and has close relation with the politics. Religious documents and records take great part in the ethnic cultural documents, which provides large amount valuable materials for us to study the ethnic traditional culture.This dissertation has five parts. The Introduction simply narrates the purpose and the meaning of this dissertation. Chapter I introduces the general situation of the ethnic documents and records and the social and historical conditions of ethnic regions before the liberation of China. Chapter II the Cultural Analysis of Chinese Ethnic Social and Politic Systems discourses the couse of the multiform social and political systems of ethnic groups from the point views of the geographic environment, the ecological conditions, the developing situations and characteristics of ethic economics, the administration guideline of past dynasties and the religious influences. Chapter III focuses on the ethnic social and political systems under the effects different religious and cultural systems. This chapter, on the basis the above two chapters, further analyzes the relation between the political system and economic system, between the politics and the religion. It also separately discourses from perspective of religious and cultural influences the Yi, Tibetan, Dai, Wegor under the cultural effects of the primitive religion, the Tibetan Buddhism, the Buddhism and the Islamism, and also the social and political systems of the Hui, Dongxiang, Bao'an, Sala living in Gansu,Ningxia and Qinghai provinces. Chapter IV the Reform of the Social System in the Process of Modernization introduces the transform of system and social problems of modernization of the ethnic regions after the founding of PRC and puts forward the corresponding solutions. The Epilogue summarizes the relations between the religious and political systems, the religious influences and function during the process of modernization, especially the value of ethnic documents and records in the study of ethnic religions and the social and political systems. Therefore, it puts forward the viewpoint: positively lead the religion to conform to the socialism, make use of the positive function of the religions to contribute to the socialism modernization.