The Past and Present: The Process of a Formal Dong Marriage in Tongdao Dong Autonomous County*

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10.2991/assehr.k.191217.194How to use a DOI?

Keywords

Dong minority, marriage process, historical changes, causes

Abstract

This paper is written partially based on the selected translation of the Chinese folklore monograph Grand View of Dong Customs. The body of the paper presents the four procedures of a traditional formal Dong marriage in Tongdao Dong Autonomous County of Hunan Province: “fetching the bride and bridesmaids home”, “entering the gate of the bridegroom’s home”, “holding wedding banquets” and “escorting the bride back to her own parents’ home”. In the end, the author analyzes the historical changes occurring to the Dong traditional marriage process and their possible causes.

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© 2020, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Guihua He
PY  - 2020
DA  - 2020/02/14
TI  - The Past and Present: The Process of a Formal Dong Marriage in Tongdao Dong Autonomous County*
BT  - Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Education, Language, Art and Inter-cultural Communication (ICELAIC 2019)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 575
EP  - 577
SN  - 2352-5398
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/assehr.k.191217.194
DO  - 10.2991/assehr.k.191217.194
ID  - He2020
ER  -