A Sociological Interpretation Of The Rituals Of Rural Folk Beliefs

From the historical background of the macro, we think that "Ma jiao" originated in primitive cultures of witch tradition. When Inship agricultural society is characterized by the formation, the witch culture has been inherited. Chinese historical continuity and cultural unity so that the needs of Witchcraft and civil society closely together in real life, and gradually moved stream evolution. On a non-revolutionary evolution of cultural traditions and secular ethical concern orientation reflects the unity of culture; historical continuity is reflected in the political elite of the traditional culture of faith to draw upon gods and worship the gods of witchcraft in the folklore of ambivalence on and cultural elite PFP makes witchcraft and traditional culture is the development of an integrated manner, dissemination and use.From the perspective of the historical development of the micro-village,"Ma jiao" and clan autonomy of a natural fit. both with each other to promote the development, so to herein as "Ma jiao" are the people in the mastery of a technique based on the induction of spirits, to provide collective spirit clan authority and real-life needs, such as manufacturing and conducted a deity worship."Ma jiao" mingled with reason and faith ethos, the next thing in mind monistic perspective, it occurs on the basis of mutual induction of the expression of the body functions magic, supernatural communication among those trials; social cognitive Perspective, it is the expression of transcendent cognitive abilities under the will of spirits in the world energy field trials were occurring mental shift from everyday life cognitive sensory systems; Perspective on the occurrence, which mainly reflected the traditional functions to achieve Heaven spiritual culture, which naturally varies between intervention astronomy, geography and ethnic relations and spiritual needs of the people and groups under the mutual emotional reproduction pressure auto-regulation.In the perspective of local cultural interpretation,"Ma jiao" and two Buddhist cultural differences reflected in, with and without the spirit and purport of practice and different forms; back together with Confucian culture is mainly reflected in the functional level the harmony and away from the structure level."Ma jiao" function to achieve mainly reflected the spirit of the traditional culture of Heaven, that variation between human intervention and astronomy, geography, human relations reconstruction under the spiritual needs of the masses and mutual emotional reality natural regulation combined."Ma jiao" ceremony is the basic space vectors spiritual practices and traditional cultural expression, and the spirit of the traditional cultural practice guidelines into people’s lives by meeting the needs of the villagers to establish the physical and mental realities of local autonomy authority.In the perspective of social psychology,"Ma jiao" ceremony during the trials and other groups of "self" occurs steering, steering high context sanctity from low-context routine, forming a group of "self-identity" and "himself away"the unity, and the old villagers "Ma jiao "test failed, due to the change in the concept of cognitive younger age groups, which reflects the taste of the villagers groups of the body segments. Based on this, on the "Ma jiao" ritual of modern living conditions under the background of deep thinking, that although modernization makes the "Ma jiao" soil to survive partial collapse of social enlightenment reproduction shift from traditional forms of mutual emotional relationships of modern national social and material reproduction, the village became a modern legal-rational authority governance and traditional charismatic authority binding mode and clan groups from cognitive standards become autonomous mode pluralistic coexistence of traditional "concept of culture" and modern "cultural perception", but this does not mean the "Ma jiao" lost its vitality, but will be in the reflection on the modern "perception of culture" to find new ways to survive and continue to play their group integration and multicultural aggregation.