Study On The Centennial Changes Of Ritual Life In Zhaoyi Village,Dali

The change of rural rituals is an important window to see through the dynamic development of Chinese society.Although Zhaoyi village in Dali is only an ordinary village in Erhai Lake Basin,it also has a quite vivid ritual life.The existence of various ritual documents in Zhaoyi village miscellaneous copy provides rich material support for understanding the ritual life of Zhaoyi village in the late Qing Dynasty and the early Republic of China.This paper intends to start with the traditional rural ceremony,through the study of the traditional ceremony and its change process in Zhaoyi village,to explore the values and changes in the process of rural ceremony change in southwest frontier minority areas.This paper consists of three parts: introduction,body and conclusion.The first part is the introduction,which mainly includes the background and significance of the topic,research content and literature review,research methods and innovations,field introduction and field experience;The second part is the main body,which is divided into three chapters: the first chapter focuses on the ritual documents in the miscellaneous copy of Zhaoyi village.By classifying and listing the relevant ritual documents,it has a glimpse of the main ritual life in Zhaoyi village in the late Qing Dynasty and the early Republic of China,and pays attention to the supplier（SIR）of the ritual life related services in Zhaoyi village a hundred years ago;The second chapter takes the interview and observation as the starting point to investigate the ritual life and the provider of ritual life related services in contemporary Zhaoyi village;The third chapter discusses the development and changes of ritual life in Zhaoyi village in the past century from the changes of life ceremony and belief worship ceremony and the interaction between students and villagers.The third part is the conclusion.Through the research,it is found that the ceremony of Zhaoyi village in Dali has been changing for a hundred years,and is closely related to the development of social politics,economy and culture.When the outside world changes,the local social production mode and social relations change,the originally stable community society changes,and the ceremony of Zhaoyi village also changes.However,no matter how the society changes,faith itself plays an indispensable role.It not only caters to the development and changes of Zhaoyi village society,but also promotes the social stability and development of the region.