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Love Song of Zhuang Ethnic an Aesthetic Illusion of Rural Society

Fan Xiu-juan

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The Zhuang ethnic is a nationality of song-fairs in tradition and the love song is one kind of folk songs rich in amount.It seems to be proved a fact that the Zhuang people have a totally freedom in love affairs and a romantic means of loving by the abundant of love songs and the song-fairs existed for thousands years.But a contrary result can be found in rural regions of Zhuang ethnic: rare couples get to know each other and get married by singing love songs in antiphonal.The love songs,symbolized the way for Zhuang youth to love and to marry is actually a culture illusion which had come into being in the period of late Qing Dynasty.Make clear that the love song of Zhuang ethnic is an aesthetic illusion may guide us have a more profound,more sophisticated insight and reflection about the society of Zhuang and its culture.

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The Zhuang ethnic is a nationality of song-fairs in tradition and the love song is one kind of folk songs rich in amount.It seems to be proved a fact that the Zhuang people have a totally freedom in love affairs and a romantic means of loving by the abundant of love songs and the song-fairs existed for thousands years.But a contrary result can be found in rural regions of Zhuang ethnic: rare couples get to know each other and get married by singing love songs in antiphonal.The love songs,symbolized the way for Zhuang youth to love and to marry is actually a culture illusion which had come into being in the period of late Qing Dynasty.Make clear that the love song of Zhuang ethnic is an aesthetic illusion may guide us have a more profound,more sophisticated insight and reflection about the society of Zhuang and its culture.

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The Zhuang ethnic is a nationality of song-fairs in tradition and the love song is one kind of folk songs rich in amount.It seems to be proved a fact that the Zhuang people have a totally freedom in love affairs and a romantic means of loving by the abundant of love songs and the song-fairs existed for thousands years.But a contrary result can be found in rural regions of Zhuang ethnic: rare couples get to know each other and get married by singing love songs in antiphonal.The love songs,symbolized the way for Zhuang youth to love and to marry is actually a culture illusion which had come into being in the period of late Qing Dynasty.Make clear that the love song of Zhuang ethnic is an aesthetic illusion may guide us have a more profound,more sophisticated insight and reflection about the society of Zhuang and its culture.

Key concepts: Ethnic group, Love song, Romance, Nationality, Singing, Literature, Illusion, History

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