巢湖区域生育文化分析-analysis of fertility culture in chaohu lake region.docxVIP

IV IV a panoramic study and description to a set of life etiquette in Chaohu district such as marriage custom, child birth, upbringing habits, funeral rituals and so on. This thesis holds that the etiquette of wedding and funeral among the folk in Chaohu district can reflect peoples social psychology of expectations for children as far as fertility and children are concerned, so during the course of describing, we pay more attention to the custom and etiquette that can most directly reflect the choice tendency in the aspects of child number, quality and structure, and then on this basis make an interpretation of the characteristics and functions of the fertility culture in Chaohu district. In the specific natural environment and under the influence of historical culture origin, the fertility culture in Chaohu district has the following characteristics: one is tthe fertility culture in Chaohu district advocates courtesy.In Chaohu folk, regardless of the marriage of men and women, the child birth as well as the death of the old and other life events, the obvious etiquette form can be seen everywhere, and the main ceremony cannot be substituted. Take marriage for example, the conjugal relation between a man and a woman wont be acknowledged by the folk without a whole set of ceremony, and etiquette of other life events is equally important. The other characteristic is that the fertility culture in Chaohu district attaches more importance on “early fertility” and “multiple birth”. The longing for “early fertility” and “multiple birth” exists universally in life rituals such as marriage, funeral and so on in Chaohu district. Some concepts like date blessed with noble sons, five sons with wealth and honor, more sons, more happiness have been subtly embedded in a variety of etiquette of life, transmitting the desire of having children to people. The third fertility culture in Chaohu district is that boys are preferred but they are not all. Among the whole set of life etique