Folk Belief In Change

This article is based upon fieldwork in Lan'an, and the research of relative scholars. Research the cultural change and ethnic group using anthropology, ethnology theory, and related theories and carry on field work and research to folk belief of Lan'an town in Sichuan LudingFirstly, this article has discussed the concept of folk belief and its applicable scope; present research on of folk belief and change of culture; it stated the research value of the Lan'an ; Introduced the basic situation of the spot and has summarized the brief situation of folk belief in Lan'an town . Upon this foundation this article mainly inspected two representative folk belief: fair of the Year of Yang and YaBa ritual, from two aspects: the literature and field.In the field work, I mainly investigated the various kinds of fairs of the Year of Yang and the YaBa ritual, the area they influences and the way of their change and spread in the literature and field. We also emphasis on the relation of folk belief with "folk" behind them. After inspection, we believe that change of folk belief, which is took directly from master to disciple, manifests the richness and multiplicity of folk belief both in the literature and field, and in "the performances" with different kinds of participants.From the activity of belief, this article places this folk belief in a frame of space and time connecting the past and the present, our group with other groups, to analysis and reflect the historical process of change of belief, the reason, the function, and "changeable" and" invariable" factor in it; we attempts to embark from native's angle,...