The Reconstruction Of Ancestral Halls

By describing and the analyzing the reconstruction process of a lineage of middle Henan under modern background, the dissertation has demonstrated inheriting and variation of lineage culture in social change period. Since 1990s, the members of Miao lineage in Shenhou have repaired their ancestral temple and pedigree, and have conducted sacrifices to ancestor and rituals of higher-order lineage. Through ethnologically analyzing these activities and movements, the dissertation tries to unfold the significance of reconstructing modern lineages.With the background of the community's history and environmental features, the dissertation presents an idea that different space-time scenes will lead to different lineage cultures. Each lineage culture has a permanent kernel, that is, insisting on the blood principal and the idea of "respecting and repaying the ancestor". By gradual analysis, the dissertation has raised the concept "substitute organization" that exists in the non-lineage village to explain the functioning system of non-lineage village, which tries to present a new visual angle for lineage research in China.As a new form which comes from the current social system, new thought and consciousness, the function and organizational principal of modern lineage are quite different from the traditional way. Instead of a substantial and practical body, the modern lineage is a kind of body with great symbolic...