Tujia Wedding Custom Research

The article is about the current marriage custom of china basing on the research of TuJia people’s marriage custom. The author start from a descriptive research of TuJia people’s marriage custom, which is constructed by43small rites. Then, the author made a progress by trying to make a explanation of the formation of the custom, having it contributed by the living environment, nation history and the interaction with Han People, pointing out the fact that this custom is dying.After this research, the author expanded the view to the marriage custom of other nations of china, made a contrast, thus to dig the reason of the marriage custom of china——the confliction and equilibrium of and clan power, gender power, and the sacred—undane power. Then a conclusion of the6basic function of marriage custom:1, the sanctification function;2,the maintain function;3, the socialization of the couple;4, an intergration on the level of family;5, a chance of sex education;6, a regulation and catharsision of emotion.After these researches, the author made a constructive study of china’s current marriage custom, for the author think china is in lack of a main stream of marriage custom, the old custom is abandoned while the new one is not created. The marriage custom of Tujia People has lots of adventages, which will be melted into the new custom of China’s marriage, thus to reality the protection of Tujia marriage custom. In the end of the article, the author made a rudiment of China’s new marriage custom.