Old Legend In Contemporary Village

The study angle and subject is confined in a contemporary village society. Through the village-research approach, interview and participant observation method, this thesis investigates the telling and transmission of a first resided ancestor's legend in Zhang Guying village, and discusses some problems in legend studies by treating it as a case.This thesis is composed of five main parts. Part 1 is the introduction. On the base of introducing the legend studies and narrator's telling studies in the academic history, it proposes the study methods and study topics in the article, i.e., presenting and studying the telling and transmission of the legend in the contemporary villages.The body. Part 2 describes different tellers'different attitudes to the legend and the legend-telling situation in detail. Part 3 represents different opinions about Zhang Guying's status "Fengshui Finder" in the background of folk's understanding Fengshui culture. Also it explains people's oral creation of the image of Zhang Guying. Part 4 introduces another legend created by intellectuals related with this one, and gives the impression about the cultural rival between two clans. The above is the development and contemporary context of the legend.Part 5 makes some conclusion and brings forward some problems to discuss. The conclusion: Fist, there are three kinds of culture press on legend telling: history knowledge and mainstream's ideology, affection for the clan, the legend's inertia; second, there's a new feature of legend's transmission, i.e., the way of telling the legend through disapproving; third, the legend narratives have a new feature: discussing and proving even academically in telling. The problems are: the route of transmission, the function of legend telling, and so on.