The characteristic of multielement culture of the Donggan Ethnic in MidAsia resulted from the gradual process of cultural adaptation under the circumstance of multiple culture. This means that cultural adaptation is a transitional process from physical culture to spiritual culture, that is, from margin to centre. Meanwhile, cultural adaptation also shows a periodic feature, in which a state of “incorporating but not accepting” occurred. Therefore, the shaping of Donggan multielement culture represented the result of interactive development of these two processes under different pressures.

the Donggan ethnic in MidAsia; multielement culture; cultural adaptation