Nv Wa And Female: The Influence To The Female's Core Status Of The NvWa' Faith

There is a Nv Wa City in north of Xihua Country, it is said as "Nv Wa's old capital", is built by Nv Wa to repair the sky. Nv Wa is a well-known female god in Chinese folk belief. Many great achievements of her were recorded by the folk myth. It is precisely because of her extraordinary supernatural powers, people in the vicinity of the Nv Wa city worship and admire this female god. A series of belief custom like ritual to offer sacrifice, pray wishes, amusement god and so on spread generation to generation, and in which formed on the basis of Nv Wa City temple fair is more far-reaching impact. During the temple fair, a radius of several hundred people gathered in the Nv Wa city, made sacrifice to Nv Wa, entertained gods, follows the established custom, and forms each one thought-provoking folk custom item. In this mysterious independent of the secular world outside the faith, in this big full of only the mother goddess Nv Wa Brief introduction of the atmosphere in the world, with the Brief introduction of the Nv Wa, women occupied the stage for this belief, and in this arena, they demonstrated fully own talent and ability, gave vent own resentful and feeling. Nv Wa impact the native women on this way. Nv Wa, the strong, independent of the goddess, in her image is containing with affirmed to feminine essential and strength praising, to the women value's praise and the approval. It makes her female admirers clear in their gender, identity, and heightened their confidence on feminine strength (such as reproductive and create the force), in order to occupy the main status in the world which Nv Wa believed.In this paper, the author based on the Nv Wa temple fair, was investigated the women's faith activities, such as the pick Tam dancing, singing songs by Nv Wa, Shou Gong, and their chairmanship on the Nv Wa temple fair. Using the female point of view and looking at the characteristics of women in affirmative vision, the author re-examined the myths and beliefs on the value and significance of women and affirmed Nv Wa's impact highlighted the women's core status in the Nv Wa tample fair.This paper divides into four major parts:The first part: Introduction. Mainly reviews the history of Nv Wa's myth research, the main question of the paper and method of research .The second part: The belief custom of Nv Wa near the Xihua.The third part: The temple fair of Nv Wa in Xihua County. This part is the key point of this paper. First of all, the author introduced the Xihua County and Nv Wa city. Secondly, introduced the temple faire of Nv Wa city and sorts of item about female occupied the body status during the temple fair.The fourth part: Conclusion. Through to the investigation of the Nv Wa city's temple fair, the author give the instance to proof the fact that female take the main status in the belief of Nv Wa and the related folk custom. The reason is the influence of Nv Wa to the female. Nv Wa, the strong, independent of goddess, in her image is containing with affirmed to feminine essential and strength praising, to the women value's praise and the approval. It makes her female admirers clear in their gender, identity, and heightened their confidence on feminine strength (such as reproductive and create the force), in order to occupy the main status in the world which Nv Wa believed.