Yi Infant Family Education, Traditional Research

This dissertation takes Yi nationality as the object of study, and tries to sum up its infants and young children's family education tradition on the basis of rich ethnology references. Furthermore, the dissertation takes the developmental psychology theory as the appraisal basis to analysis the family education tradition's influence to children's physical and mental development in both positive and negative sides.This dissertation is divided into three parts.The first part includes reasons for the research, literature review, core concepts, theoretical foundation, research methods and significance, and an overview of Yi nationality.The second part is the main body of the dissertation, included four chapters. Chapter one discusses traditional marriage, family system and child nurturance. Chapter two analyzes traditional principle of family education, exploring the necessity of family education, the purpose of family education, the awareness of children's gender and quality. Chapter three introduces traditional fetus nurturance, such as mother's diet, words, deeds to analyze the advantages and disadvantages to infant's physical and mental development. Chapter four mainly discusses traditional infants and young children's family nurturance, such as ethics teaching, living and production skill teaching, the realization of environment protection teaching and so on.The third part is conclusion, which evaluating the tradition of She ethnic group infant and young children family education, and pointing out its practical significance.