The Sociological Ponder On The Prevalence Of Fengshui Phenomenon In Transition Period

As a traditional culture with unique meanings, fengshui (geomancy) had an important impact on social life and social production in the civilized history of Chinese nation. It can be said that fengshui has long been deeply rooted in traditional Chinese social cultural and psychological structure and become a kind of people's "collective unconscious". However, fengshui has long been ridiculed and criticized by the scientific community, and was included in the scope of superstition and sorcery. Until the 1980s, as the control on ideology gradually release, fengshui became popular again. In the background of constructing a harmonious cultural, the study of this community - cultural phenomenon has important practical significance.In this paper, I select a county seat as a case and adopt field survey and literature research methods, mainly analyze the logic of fengshui's survival and evolution in the changing modern society, by which means probe into the relationship between fengshui and modernization, and revealed fengshui phenomenon's significance for the construction of a harmonious cultural.This paper is divided into six parts:Introduction: Account for the origin, meaning of the issue, and introduce the theoretical framework, research path and methods adopted. Descript the social and cultural profiles (including geographical, economic and cultural aspects) of the study area; explain the first derivation of fengshui in S Country.Partâ…¡: Analyze the prevalence actuality of fengshui in transition period from all social strata's role change in fengshui belief.Partâ…¢: Focus on the analysis of the reasons for the fengshui phenomenon. Mainly pay attention to the institutional, social and psychological causes, along with the causes of its own adaptation with modernization, and several other aspects of proof. The renaissance of fengshui has close ties with the government's position, it adapt itself with social transition and modernization, make efforts to show "legalization" in order to survive in modern society. Meanwhile, modern society also provides realistic conditions for the dissemination of feng shui. Feng Shui's revival is the result of various factors.Partâ…£: Illuminate the sociological functions of fengshui phenomenon from its positive features and negative aspects; show its cultural values as well as negative factors.Partâ…¤: Speculates on the future direction of fengshui according to the overall analysis, that is, the direction of rationalization, practicalization, secularization, industrialization and universalization,The last part mainly points out that fengshui should adapt itself to the socialistic harmonious culture and to the construction of spiritual civilization. The full text is in the service of one objective, that is, to understand fengshui in a dialectic way, and accurately to look on the prevalence of this special community - cultural phenomenon in order to guide fengshui play a positive role in the construction of socialistic harmonious culture.