白族“结老友”习俗及其社会学分析——以云南大理镇为例

The Custom of “Making Old Friends” of the Bai Nationality and Its Sociological Analysis—Taking Dali Town of Yunnan Province as an Example

摘要: “结老友”是大理白族地区一项传统且运用普遍的习俗活动。它仅发生于白族青少年时期，不同家庭通过这一习俗发展出“拟亲属”关系，从而扩大了当地人的社会关系网络，增加了人们的社会资本，在白族人的日常生活中发挥着重要作用，大多数的白族人都会在青少年时期就完成这一活动。这一项活动创造了独树一帜的白族乡土文化，在白族人的日常生产生活、社会秩序、伦理道德等方面发挥重要作用的同时，还为未来的人际交往、个人人格的自我完善做出了大的贡献。“结老友”这一习俗在建构拟亲属关系、资本积累与流动方面发挥着社会功能，同时，随着社会发展，还在当代社会发生了新的变化。

Abstract: “Making old friends” is a traditional and common custom activity in Dali Bai area. It only occurred in the teenage period of the Bai nationality. Through this custom, different families developed “quasi-kinship” relationships, which expanded the social network of local people, increased people’s social capital, and played an important role in the daily life of the Bai people. Most of the Bai people will complete this activity in their teenage years. This activity has created a unique local culture of the Bai nationality, which plays an important role in the daily production and life, social order, ethics and morality of the Bai people, and also makes a great contribution to the future interpersonal communication and the self-improvement of personal personality. The custom of “making old friends” plays a social role in the construction of kinship, capital accumulation and flow. At the same time, with the development of society, new changes have taken place in contemporary society.