Download pdf
Tajik Wedding Customs and Wedding Music in China
- 1 University of Bologna
* Author to whom correspondence should be addressed.
Abstract
China’s Tajik nation, also known as the “plateau Tajik”, is a nation with a long history, in the long years of change, gradually formed its own culture, wedding music is one of the representative culture of the Chinese Tajik nation. For the Tajiks, the wedding ceremony of a particular couple has become an important occasion for collective celebration and entertainment for the Tajiks of the region, as well as a very important way of communicating with each other. In 2008 the Tajik wedding customs have been listed as the second batch of China’s intangible cultural heritage, this article is exactly the author in July 2023 to Taxkurgan Tajik Autonomous County after picking up the wind, combined with the country’s a number of existing articles of information, summed up. The article consists of three main parts, the first part is mainly about Tajik marriage customs. The second part of the article is about the types of Tajik dances, such as Chapsuz, Dolazi, Mailis and so on. The third part is mainly about the music of Tajik wedding ceremonies, which includes folk music and religious music. Folk music includes folk songs, dance music and instrumental music. The author hopes that the music in the unique wedding ceremony of the Tajik nation will be known and understood by everyone, and that it will be appreciated more and further studied to promote its inheritance and development.
Keywords
Tajik, marriage customs, wedding ceremony music, dance
[1]. Batul Balati; Dai Hu. The Wisdom of Life on the Pamir Plateau - A Cultural Interpretation of the Tajik Eagle Dance [J]. Research on Ethnic Arts,2014.
[2]. Ma Shengde. The Dance of the Eagle on the Iceberg[J]. China Ethnic News, 2004.Batul Balati; Dai Hu. The Wisdom of Life on the Pamir Plateau - A Cultural Interpretation of the.
[3]. Tajik Eagle Dance [J]. Research on Ethnic Arts,2014.
[4]. Zhang Tingchen. Overview of Tajik traditional music[J]. Popular Literature and Art,2015(14):137.
[5]. Liu Tao. Research on Wedding Ceremony Music of Tajiks [D]. Beijing: Central University for Nationalities, 2011.
Cite this article
Yaqin,Z. (2023). Tajik Wedding Customs and Wedding Music in China. Communications in Humanities Research,15,92-98.
Data availability
The datasets used and/or analyzed during the current study will be available from the authors upon reasonable request.
Disclaimer/Publisher's Note
The statements, opinions and data contained in all publications are solely those of the individual author(s) and contributor(s) and not of EWA Publishing and/or the editor(s). EWA Publishing and/or the editor(s) disclaim responsibility for any injury to people or property resulting from any ideas, methods, instructions or products referred to in the content.
About volume
Volume title: Proceedings of the International Conference on Global Politics and Socio-Humanities
© 2024 by the author(s). Licensee EWA Publishing, Oxford, UK. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and
conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license. Authors who
publish this series agree to the following terms:
1. Authors retain copyright and grant the series right of first publication with the work simultaneously licensed under a Creative Commons
Attribution License that allows others to share the work with an acknowledgment of the work's authorship and initial publication in this
series.
2. Authors are able to enter into separate, additional contractual arrangements for the non-exclusive distribution of the series's published
version of the work (e.g., post it to an institutional repository or publish it in a book), with an acknowledgment of its initial
publication in this series.
3. Authors are permitted and encouraged to post their work online (e.g., in institutional repositories or on their website) prior to and
during the submission process, as it can lead to productive exchanges, as well as earlier and greater citation of published work (See
Open access policy for details).