Historical Source of "Zhang and Li Combined Households" in Taomin Region

Folk activities are the most representative form of regional culture, the humanistic care, homeland affection and festival customs that run through them are all vivid and true embodiments of local life. The folk custom activity of "Zhang and Li combined households" is a living inheritance of the historical fact of Mongolian-Han fusion in Taomin region. It takes Shehuo (festival entertainment) as the carrier, and uses rich forms of performance to recognize relatives and worship ancestors. At the same time, as a kind of entertainment and catharsis, it also carries the social function of folk culture, such as maintaining and connecting the emotions between the ethnic groups and neighbors, etc. On the basis of field investigation, this paper deeply describes the folk custom event of "Zhang and Li combined households", shows the whole picture of the grand festival, and discusses the ancestral memory, identity and ethnic integration process of "Zhang and Li combined households" as a cultural phenomenon.