A Study Of Tongren Tujia Nationality Married Songs With Tears In The Perspective Of Feminism

"The married songs with tears" is a kind of marriage custom which was popular in the regions of Tujia Nationality.It is the true portrayal that the female people of Tujia nationality suffering the harm of unequal marriages and feudal thought.At the same time,it is also the crystallization of wisdom of the female people of Tujia nationality,truly reflecting the situation that the female people of Tujia nationality were fettered by the marriage convention of " Matches are arranged by matchmaker's word and by parents' order." and their marriage cannot be decided by themselves.Therefore,they have to "obey" matchmaker's word and by parents' order and they have to cry at the wedding day to unleash their fury in their deep heart.In some way,"The married songs with tears"is an Elegy that the female people in the regions of Tujia Nationality write with their tears.It reveals deeply the pain of female people in the regions of Tujia Nationality,exposing the evil act of feudal arranged marriages system,attacking the feudalism of the thought thinking that men are supposed to be worth more than women.The protagonist of "The married songs with tears"--the girl is going to be married,in fact is the epitome of Tujia women,and is also the generalization of image of the brave and industrious female people in the regions of Tujia Nationality.They are suffered by the unequal and feudal marriages system so that they stand against the unreasonable marriage system with the custom of "The married songs with tears".Taking "The married songs with tears" as a research object in academic circle is not common,what's more,the relative researches making some explanations on feminism is fewer.This paper takes feminism as the main research perspective,combining with gender consciousness,cultural study,sociology,anthropology and aesthetics and so on,analyzing "The married songs with tears" in the region of Tujia Nationality in Tongren area.This paper aims to discuss the lives of female people in the regions of Tujia Nationality in Tongren area and their gender consciousness,and personality characteristics and their new changes of marriage forms.This paper is mainly divided into four chapters:The first chapter mainly analyzes the sprout of "The married songs with tears" and the feminine consciousness in the region of Tujia Nationality in Tongren area.This paper analyzes the temporary withdrawal of male discourse in the process of crying marriage,expressing subjectively about Tujia women and the decomposition and reconsitution of their subjective position.The second chapter mainly analyzes "The married songs with tears" ‘s effect on the manifestation of female social identity and female's gender consciousness,and demonstrates on the three social identities,traditional morality and ethics and feminist consciousness from the process of crying marriage from the girl who is going to be married.The third chapter mainly describes "The married songs with tears" in the region of Tujia Nationality in Tongren area expressing eco-feminist ideology.This part demonstrates the profound idea of ecological aesthetics and ecological feminism in the power of "The married songs with tears".The fourth chapter mainly starts from "The married songs with tears" in the region of Tujia Nationality in Tongren area and the consumption phenomenon of female marriage,demonstrating the transmutation of views of marriage in the region of Tujia Nationality and the dimensions of consumption of the female marriage in the region of Tujia Nationality.