Acculturation And Interaction-A Record Of Field Folk Customs Of She Nationality In A Village In Northern Zhejiang

She ethnic minority group is a scattered and mixed nationality with a long history. During the migration process of more than thousands of years, people of She nationality have spread to the vast mountainous regions in the southeast of China. Tonglu County in Zhejiang Province is the inhabitation of She nationality in the late migration process. Since it is geographically separated from community of She nationality in the southern part of Zhejiang Province, She people in Tonglu have its own trend of development. With She nationality villages represented by Shanyinwu village in Eshan She nationality Town in Tonglu County as the subjects of study, this paper tries to make a field research of the folk culture of villages of She nationality and aims to explore the cultural interaction of She and Han nationality as well as the changes of folk culture of She nationality with the background of the strong culture of Han nationality.By taking Shanyinwu village as the indepth field case and the surrounding She and Han villages as the reference of the field, the paper adopts the research method of integrating points with sphere. The paper first introduces the origin of the topic, the research objective, research method and then moves to the overview of field community (Chapter One and Two), then the paper illustrates the picture of folk customs in the village from the following four dimensions:production and living folk customs (Chapter Three),the social organization folk custom represented by clan culture (Chapter Four), rites in people's lives (Chapter Five), folk religion (Chapter Six). The last chapter is the conclusion. Chapter Three focuses on the production and living folk custom. It is based on the development of sedentary cultivation of agriculture and mainly describes the changes of relevant folk customs during the transference from shifting cultivation to sedentary cultivation. Some special local folk customs are mentioned here, such as the custom of land rent of the local landowners of She people surnamed Li, the blessing custom beyond the scope of agricultural blessing and pray, etc.Chapter Four is centered on the social organizational folk custom. From the perspective of clan culture, it mainly interprets family legends, genealogy, and ancestral hall and sacrifice rites, and it especially describes the development of the clan ancestral hall of Family Li to Folklore Library of She County, and emphasizing the influence of Folklore Library to the village folk customs.Chapter five mainly discusses the rites in people's lives, which is represented by adult ceremony and funeral. The adult ceremony goes from a simplified rites of a rites named "Chuan Shi Xue Shi" to the disappearance of the rites; The funeral of She people combines the local funeral rites of Tonglu, and both She and Han people will invite "Master" in She nationality in funerals; in She nationality funeral rites is called "Zuo Gong De"(literally means "to do good deeds"), while in Han nationality it is named "Zuo Dao Chang" (literally means "to do Buddhist service").Chapter Six deals with folk religion, which mainly includes three beliefs:beliefs in King Pan Hu and The Third Princess, beliefs in Chen Shisi Goddess and beliefs in doing major blessing. Pan Hu belief is transferred into "Long Qi" and gradually fades away; beliefs in Chen Shisi Goddess are overlapped with beliefs in Song Gongjiu in Han Nationality and these two beliefs go through a process of adjustment and finally the She people in the village joins in the circle of Songjiugong beliefs while not elaborates on the Chen Shisi Goddess; beliefs in doing major blessing evolves from traditional rice pray blessing rites to various blessing activities of village such as "Inviting White Tiger", "Sending Plague Ship", etc.Chapter Seven is the conclusion. From the perspective of interaction of ethnic groups and cultural acculturation, it points out that during the interactive process of She and Han nationalities, She ethic group, which is on the weak side, is more deeply influenced by Han Culture, and the result of cultural acculturation is revealed through the changes of folk customs in She nationality.