Research On Regional Social Folk Belief

Folk beliefs are an important part of our traditional culture. The results of research of folk beliefs are very rich. In this paper, the folk beliefs are the content of study,"Regional community" is the framework of this study, In the regional community, the paper explores folk beliefs. In this thesis, we discuss the folk beliefs of the regional community from the perspective of "people" in order to build the scene of a meso-level folk belief. The paper studies the regional social folk beliefs on the basis of the empirical investigation in the Huangmei. It argues that regional social folk beliefs mean is in a specific area, and persons believe in the supernatural power of the spirit body and physical body. And it is regarded as the Custom lifestyle accepted and recognized by people of regional society.The adherents include not only low-level people, but also the social elites; Belief contents include organized religion and the non-religious content which are no organization, no doctrine, no transmission. It is multiple forms of belief, and the belief is quite flexible. The features are with regional, inclusive, life, careless scattered, tenacious, geopolitical and blood blend and a wide range of people.Social folk religion is divided into individual, family and the community of three different levels. Regional social folk belief has many functions. It can fit the regional socio-cultural psychology of the people to meet the needs of the public multi-level. It can shape the regional sense of community, and maintain regional social order. It builds regional public space, and cohesion among the people. It can educate regional social people, to ease the regional social contradictions. It establishes the identity of the members of society, to develop a regional consensus. It can develop the regional economy, and heritage of regional folk culture.There are many reasons for the formation of regional factors, such as the unique geography of the natural environment, traffic conditions, traditions and customs, population awareness within the region of role models and so on. The paper further analyzes the regional social changes and inheritance mechanisms of the folk beliefs in the current.It found "generalization" and "involution" phenomenon of the regional social folk beliefs.The function appeared the corresponding transformation to adapt to need of the state and society.The heritage of regional social folk beliefs must be clear. The carrier of its heritage includes person, objects, oral language, ceremony of beliefs and so on in order to construct the regional social and cultural identity of psychology. It formed a "top down" and "bottom-up" inheritance mechanism, Both inheritance mechanisms display the interaction among nation, regional community and the people.The state has a demand on the regional social folk beliefs, the regional social folk beliefs depend on the state, regional social folk beliefs of persons is just a self, rather than conscious.