A Study On Marriage Circle Vicissitude Of The Tu Ethnic Minority Living In The SanErjia Village

Marriage culture, which implicates values, thinking mode? aesthetic taste, moral system, religion and national disposition, is one of the epitome and reflection of ethnic culture.The evolution of marriage culture is not only a straight embodiment of changes in marriaged families, but also an epitome and reflection of social development.In this dissertation, the author employs relevant theory of marriage circle, combining historical materials with a large number of first-hand information such as field work and interviews about SanErjia village, to research on the spouse-selection idea, the opening level of marriage circle andintermarriage distance of Tu living in SanErjia village from ethnic group, religion and region perspectives, makes a specific study on scattered Tu’s marriage circle.The paper is structured as follows:The first part is introduction, which mainly contains the significance of the subject selection, the review about the relative research, the skeleton of the theoretical vision, the research contents, the methods and the field experience-,Part two traces back the history of the field point, and analyzes the social and economic development work;Part three descrips and analyses processabout this research subject.In this part, firstly, the author introduces the current situation and history about marriage circle of the Tu living in SanErjia village, and secondly, from the perspective of space, surnames, inter-ethnic relationships, outlines track of the marriage circlevicissitude;Part four analyses and inquires the factors which lead to the changes of the Tu of SanErjia village’s marriage circle;Part five is conclusion, by discussing the changes about the Tu of SanErjia village’s marriage circle, clarify its historical evolution, discuss the reasons of the changes, and predict the future trend of the ethnic groupdevelopment.