Qinghai Tibetan History Research And Minority Culture

Qinghai Province is a place where ethnic groups inhabit. To studyTibetan history in Qinghai in the first place, the relations among thesegroups are the keys. The history and the relation here have allconnections to each other, that is to say, without the history of ethnicrelations, there is no Qinghai history at all. Not only the relation ofbetween Tibetans and Tus is the important constituent part, but also it isa crucial research content of Qinghai history.Tibetans and Tus here have close connections in all aspects ofculture, religion, and they have created abundant material and spiritualfortune in long-time history and bestowed rich legacy and inspiration togeneration and after generation.The study on the history relation of both ethnic groups is inside thebasic frame of ethnic groups relations’ history in Qinghai, to analyze thecultural relation in history among them sort out the basic historicalsituation of the cultural communication and development of the bothTibetans and Tus, the paper systematically analyzes and summarizes theoverall picture and substance of this kind of relation. The paper, in theperspectives of culture and religion reflects close relations of Tibetansand Tus, and their historical situation of mutual development,furthermore explains the as-close brothers’ relations of among Tibetans,Tus and other ethnic groups in which they jointly have created and promoted the progress and prosperity in Qinghai-Tibet plateau.In same eco-environment and social environment, for surviving anddevelopment, Tibetans and Tus auspicated their own living space andcreated necessary material and spiritual fortunes. Upon the vast plateau,both ethnic groups inhabited and developed from with one another. Inlong-time communication between both ethnic groups, Tus have deeplybeen influenced by Tibetan culture and introduced sort of Tibetancultural contents. As history flied by, in Qinghai there formed a structurewhere ethnic groups consisted like Tibetans, Tus, Mongolians, Hans.Hence it has provided convenience for cultural exchanges betweenTibetans and Tus. The amalgamation between the both has realized inmodes of production and living, belief, marriage and funeral ritual,literature and art etc to form common characteristics of both ethnics,which resembles a tie to connect peoples of the both ethnic groupsinseparably. That results a contribution to the formation anddevelopment of unified multi-ethnics of China.In perspectives of macro and micro, and with the guideline ofhistorical materialism and Marxism national views, the paper showsrespects to the history of scientifically analyzed cultural relationsbetween Tibetans and Tus with the help of basic theoretical methods ofethnology, anthropology and history.