THE TRADITIONAL CUSTOMS OF THE TAIWANESE

• Authors: Slawinski Roman
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

The article is a review of traditional Chinese customs, enriched with specific Chinese features, that are still alive in Taiwan. It provides a synthetic description of customs pertaining to the family, granting first and last names, nativity, initiation, weddings and funerals, and celebration of the most important traditional holidays. These phenomena were broadly described and classified by a Taiwanese ethnologist, Professor Juan Ch'ang-rue, whose work devoted to the question of traditional customs, as well as an earlier one, dealing with Taiwanese traditional folk religions, has already been translated from the Chinese into Polish by the author of this article. In the conclusion, the authori postulates to examine the current level of preservation of these behaviours and their evolution in the face of modernization and Western influences.

Keywords

EN

CHINESE CUSTOMS; TAIWAN

Discipline

• ETHNOLOGY: ETHNOLOGY

• Publisher: Polska Akademia Nauk. Instytut Kultur Śródziemnomorskich i Orientalnych PAN
• Journal: Acta Asiatica Varsoviensia
• Year: 2009
• Issue: 22
• Pages: 75-87
• Document type: ARTICLE

Contributors

author

Slawinski Roman

• Roman Slawinski, Polish Academy of Sciences, Center for Studies on Non-European Countries, 72 Nowy Swiat Str., 00-330 Warszawa, Poland

Identifiers

CEJSH db identifier

10PLAAAA08596