Aboriginality Of Folk Religion In South-East China

Folk religion is the important aspect of social culture in South-East China, where the nature worship and the belief of ghosts and gods are popular and special. The folk religion in South-East China is different from it in North Plain in many aspects. But these differences have been ignored for a long time because most scholars considered them to be the transformation of Han nationnality's religional cuture of North Plain. With the increase of new findings of the aboriginal religion in South-East China by prehistorical archeological work, people have recogniced that the folk religion in South-East China has many common with the aboriginal religion here. In fact, they come down in one continuous line. The modern ethnography of the descendants of aborigines in South-East China also play an important side role in revealing that their traditional religion has many common with the folk religion in South-East China, which give a side view to observe the profound aboriginal base of folk religion in South-East China.It's a new research into aboriginality of folk religion in South-East China by a cross-nation-culture beyond Han-nationality's view. The brightness of the article is distinguishing the basic culture of abrigines and the superculture of Han immigrants, and finding the transitional history from aboriginal religion to folk religion in South-East China by the co-research of archeology, history, folklore and anthropology.Firstly, the article gives an analysis in aboriginal religion before Qin Dynasty and Han Dynasties, so that can search after the aboriginal religion base of folk religion in South-East China by means of archeology in combination with history.Secondly, on the base of enthnography in combination with field research and historical documents, the article analysizes the traditional religion of the aboriginal descendants, in order to give a side view to observe the profound aboriginal base of folk religion in South-East China.Then, the article emphasizes on the analysis of Han society's" folk religion in South-East China, and tries to distinguish their different origins and characteristics by means of cultural stratigraphy. Then it studies the historical and cultural Stratigraphy of folk religion in South-East China and the reason of it.Finally, the article talks about the natural and cultural enviroments in which the aboriginal religion had come down into the traditional religion of aboriginal descendants, and folk religion of "Han society's" in South-East China. The research on characteristics of subsistence, change, stratigraphy of aboriginal religion in folk religion in South-East China reveals the fact that the basic and main cultural contents of folk religion in South-East China come down in one continious line with the aboriginal religion.