Marriage and wedding ceremony of a village in Loess Plateau, China: As a description of changing/persistent tradition

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  • Jia Ruichen
    Institute of Soil and Water Conservation, Chinese Academy of Sciences and Ministry of Water Resources
  • Sato Ren'ya
    Department of Environmental Change, School of Social and Cultural Studies, Kyushu University
  • Nawata Hiroshi
    Department of Environmental Change, School of Social and Cultural Studies, Kyushu University
  • Matsunaga Kohei
    Research Institute for Humanity and Nature
  • Lin Guobin
    Institute of Soil and Water Conservation, Chinese Academy of Sciences and Ministry of Water Resources
  • Zhang Wenhui
    Northwest Sci-Tech University of Agriculture & Forestry
  • Yamanaka Norikazu
    Arid Land Research Center, Tottori University

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  • 中国・黄土高原の結婚式 : 伝統と変容の一断面
  • チュウゴク ・ オウド コウゲン ノ ケッコンシキ : デントウ ト ヘンヨウ ノ イチ ダンメン

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Abstract

In inland rural China, recent economic development and penetration of cash economy have rapidly been changing social and material life of villagers. Keeping such a situation in mind, this paper aims to examine how some of social traditions have been changed and how others persist, by giving a detailed description of a marriage and accompanied wedding ceremony observed in a village（Beisong-Ta）located in Loess Plateau（Ansai Prefecture, Shanxi）. As a result, while rapid penetration of market economy has been making recent marriage more and more costly so that many indebted farmers are pushed to work outside villages, it is observed that basic social relationship such as reciprocal help among villagers as well as patrilineal/patrilocal marriage tradition including attached customs such as son preference is still held on.

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  • 比較社会文化

    比較社会文化 17 17-35, 2011-03-20

    Graduate School of Social and Cultural Studies, Kyushu University

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