Rural Women's Practice Of Folk Belief In Social Transformation

Since 1980s, the social transformation pattern based on market economic has led to a great change for China. There is someone who names this period as a new tradition of communist socialist civilization.So far,the research on it has become inspiration and power of the whole Humanities and social science.This article aims to put the folklore culture in the center of the social transformation and try to answer what the folklore culture tradition can provide for social trasformation,what cause it persist.As a space of folklore inheritance ,the villiage is self-sufficent but not closed ,and is a substantive community. Adhereing to the concept,the reserch of this paper is done in a natual vlliage of the south of Liaoning Province. The paper mainly fouces on the phenomenon of Christian faith. The process of social transfomation has a profoundly impact on the life of every one in Shacun. The women who are on the edge of the social life re-invent fork beliefs according to Christian faith and add new"footnotes"in the original folk inherent meaning here .After a series of events happened, the social economic statues of the women on the edge of Shacun. At last, the women aquire the indentity of others.In the concolusion of the paper ,the author raises the point:in the background of mordernity and globalization, community sense of villiages will last, folk belifes will not be substituted by institutionalized religions. Because these things contains the local historical imagnization,and the interpretions of the meanings of lives. This is the power of folk beliefs. At the same time,the author finds that in process of the state retreating from folk society, the women play an impaortant part ,and the power of folk society rises.