The. The Hezhe Fish Culture

The Hezhen, known as "fish skin tribe" and "Shiquan tribe" in history, is one of China's ethnic minorities with less population and owns unique cultural characteristics. The geographical environment plays an important role in the formation of its unique culture. The special natural environment created its own the fishery culture. Based on their long practice of living and producing, the Hezhen people created the abundant material civilization and splendid spiritual civilization. As an old saying, food and cloth from river, indicates the region features of the Hezhen culture. Because the Hezhen people make their living by fishing throughout the year, so they formed the unique fish culture. The important content of the Hezhen material culture contains wearing fish skin, eating fish, living in Suo Luozi and Di Jiaozi, ship as traffic tool, etc. At the same time, fishing skill, manufacture method of fishing tool, craftsmanship of the fish skin, folk literature and art, etc are the significant content of the Hezhen spiritual culture. Nowadays, with the changes of environment and the development of society, the Hezhen traditional fishing culture is faced great impact. Some national customs have disappeared, so we are faced with the difficult task of rescue, reservation and heritage of the Hezhen traditional fishing culture. This paper is structured as follows, The introduction contains three sections, first, introduce the reason and significance of this research; second, the study situation of this issue; third, the related documents and the research method.The first chapter introduces the fishing culture of economic life, divided into two sections, first introduces the fishing activities containing fishing season, fishing tool, etc; second shows customs and taboos.The second chapter introduces the fishing culture of material life, divided into four sections, partly introduces the diet, dress, habitation, vehicle, etc relative with fish of the Hezhen.The third chapter introduces the fishing culture of spiritual culture, divided into four sections, separately introduces the religion, folk literature and art, sport activities and living customs, etc.The forth chapter mainly refers to protection and heritage of the Hezhen traditional fishing culture, containing two aspects, first is about the changes of the Hezhen fishing culture; second is about protection and heritage of the Hezhen traditional fishing culture.