Tajik Wedding Customs and Wedding Music in China

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.