Ancestor,God And National Hero: Chen Wenlong Worship And The Cultural Practices Of Yuhu Chen's Family In Putian

A growing number of scholars count up religion and folk beliefs as a product of culture,to explore expression of both of them in the village community.This orientation has become the main perspective to study the traditional Chinese form of local social organizations and living space.In this paper,I also select this perspective, based on the anthropology-based,combined with literature,also based on field research,and put previous human studies as a starting point,focusing on the relationships between Chen Wenlong worship and Putian Yuhu family,which surname is Chen.Think skeleton of family Chen's cultural practices in different time and space,analysis Chen Wenlong as "ancestors","gods" and "national heroes" multi-layered formation and conversion,discussing about closely interact between family organizations and folk beliefs,and social motivity and cultural logic behind them.Provide explain to the traditional village society and its modern transtbrmation of folk beliefs and folk beliefs study.The full text is divided into six parts:chapter one,"Introduction",describes the origin of this study,reviewed the past status of the village of traditional Chinese society,religion,folk beliefs and Putian local research community.Chapter two, outlines Putian background by social and cultural side,as well as an overview of Yuhu family chen,to create matting for the cases described behind.Chapter 3,expatiate the local gentry and Yuhu Putian family Chen's worship towards to Chen Wenlong and the meaning of it,the continuing manifestation of the recycling in the background of "national" symbol during the period since the Ming Dynasty until the present.Chapter 4 focus on continuous genealogy,ancestral reconstruction and family sacrifice three aspects to analysis the cultural practice of Yuhu family Chen's,as well as the family competition between different branches in integration process.Chapter 5 explores Gushan family Chen improve their own lineage after the last century 80's,and at the same time,how it integrated "ancestor worship" and "divine faith" in the "Chen Wenlong" symbolic resources of the business in order to improve the Yuhu Chen family in the position.Chapter 6,"Conclusion",summing up main points of the full text,clarifying the significance of this study,and making a brief reponse towards to the relevant academic history.This study shows that the analysis for Chen Wenlong worship and Putian Yuhu family Chen interaction between cultural practices,not only enrich our outlook on the Putian awareness of local history;but also provide many models for anthropologists to rethink and review of the social studies of traditional Chinese villages.