The Western Zhou Chaopin Paid A Courtesy Gift Exchange Culturology

The gift as a medium displays the overall aspects of XiZhou's society, which is the research's purpose. The exchange is not only the exchange process of gift, but also shows the people's opinions, including witchcraft, economy, morality and the worship of ancestor, which demonstrate the gift's function of overall show. Meanwhile, this is our research's academic goal. Besides, our research's practical goal is to reveal the gift's guide significance to the present. In addition, our research's importance is to regard an overall, completed ChaoPin ceremony from the gift's visual angle, which is a challenging attempt to our cultural trait of "paying attention to the ceremony and ignoring wealth".The thesis should stress the relative research of different culture. Because the gift's theory of the West's anthropology is so mature that we can use it to guide our gift's research. We enumerate some masters'famous works and make dialectical comparison in order to reach a conclusion to help our research. With the help of the theory, the thesis makes the detailed research respectively from the aspect of scene, classification, trait, function and real significance. The most important research is to see the opinion of treating gift as the fundamental form of social living, which reflects the Zhou Chao's social overall aspects, including witchcraft, morality, ceremony, religion and economy and so on. This is an overall show. And the medium of show is the gift. At the end, we reach the conclusion of guiding reality.We make the concrete research and obtain the following conclusion:the gift as a mixture displays the XiZhou's social overall aspects. The gift's exchange not only includes the article itself, but also contains the people's emotion, which make an ironic sense to our present society that regards the gift as a tool. Meanwhile, the gift stresses mutual exchange, which indicates expectation (sincere), which have enlightenment to our present society, too. Besides, the gift's exchange process reflects the demand of generous morality, which draws on the experience of the charitable problem of the present society.The thesis's innovation is to apply the West anthropology's theory. At the end, we want to obtain the relationship between gift and morality, which is Moss's and our research feelings. Because some problems at the present focus on the human nature in the final analysis, which is the moral problem too. Indeed, our research obtains the guiding meaning to the present problem in the final, which is our thesis's innovation...