Brief Research On The Folk Custom Of The Tiger Worship Of China

The folk custom of the tiger worship of china originates worshipping tiger. The folk custom of the tiger worship of china has substantially cultural implication and is important branch of the traditional culture of china. What's more, it still impacts people's manufacture and daily life deeply. So the research on the folk custom of the tiger worship possesses important theoretical significance and realistic value. The research is not only efficient way which we can investigate the traditional culture of china in a new view, but also systematic research on the folk custom of the tiger worship is good to deepen our comprehension about people's manufacture and spiritual life, and make development or use the cultural significance of the folk custom of the tiger worship, go to further step, even the research can carry forward the tiger culture and enrich people's material life and spiritual life. But the research situation of the folk custom of the tiger worship is not parallel with its status and its importance. The research on the folk custom of the tiger worship has many defects and is in relatively low level. We should systematically study the folk custom of tiger worship, profoundly probe into the properties of the tiger worship and overall inquire into the expressional form and the cultural implication of the tiger worship. So people can get a scientific and all-round knowledge about the tiger worship and improve the level of the research on the folk custom of the tiger worship. This thesis main utilizes some principles and methods of the folklore to study the folk custom of the tiger worship in the view of history of the folklore, which can deepen the knowledge and understand of essential charactersof the tiger worship. This thesis is divided into four parts:1,The introduction.2,The first expression of the folk custom of the tiger worship -natural worship.3,The second expression of the folk custom of the tiger worship -fetish worship.4,The third expression of the folk custom of the tiger worship -totem worship.