Abstract
With the accelerating process of modernization, the existing space of traditional culture is narrowed increasingly, which is the general trend of contemporary social economy and culture development. The Miao village in this thesis is unexceptionally affected by the modernization of outside world. For instance, tourism development has changed their traditional culture. However, for some reasons, the Miao village still maintains the primitive religions and burial customs such as tree worship and tree burial. Such precious traditional cultures as the Swing Festival, the village marriage custom and the characteristic costume and hair style, etc. are still seen in the village that is honored as the “living fossil” of the traditional culture of the Miao people. The survival of traditional culture always depends on the social demand; after the society opened, the survival or disappearance of traditional culture is always affected by the mainstream society.
Highlights
The investigation site in this thesis is a Miao village in Congjiang County of Southeast Guizhou Miao and Dong Autonomous Prefecture, where the place was with over 400 households and over 2000 people in 2009
Since people favor black in costume, they are called Black Miao, a branch of Black Miao people
Since 1999, the Miao village has been opened to the outside world as one of the first tourism villages in Guizhou province to show its unique primitive traditional culture of Miao to tourists from all over the world
Summary
The investigation site in this thesis is a Miao village in Congjiang County of Southeast Guizhou Miao and Dong Autonomous Prefecture, where the place was with over 400 households and over 2000 people in 2009. Since 1999, the Miao village has been opened to the outside world as one of the first tourism villages in Guizhou province to show its unique primitive traditional culture of Miao to tourists from all over the world. It is called “the last gunman tribe in China” and reputed as the “living fossil” and the “museum” of the traditional culture of the Miao people. Wang changed the traditional culture of the Miao Village a lot in the past decade, there are still some traditional cultures surviving which has become the important symbol of Miao’s identity. The information details of the traditional cultures as followings were from my visiting to the village in 2009
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