The Cultural Function Analysis Of Religious Drama

Ritual culture of human social life as a very important cultural phenomenon in different periods, in different regions and in different nations has different performance. This paper was based on cultural anthropology functionalism theory, and with Zhejiang province Wenzhou city Wenling Taiping Street as the research site, to study the local popular Ritual culture acting to thank God, also study its function.In this paper, the author use field work literature analysis and other research methods to study. And try to clear changes in the role and value of the drama in China’s rural public cultural life.This article is by five chapters and finally the conclusion of the composition. The first chapter is an introduction. And Points four bar, in turn, discusses the "acting offering god" of the research situation, the research significance, the research methods and research of the motif and content. The second chapter of the paper mainly defines "acting offering concept of god, that is, what is" offering god play ", what is "acting offering to god". This chapter consists of three bar form:the first quarter focuses on the drama. The second quarter back the development of drama brief, Richard out the skeleton of the drama development. The third quarter expounds what is acting offering to god. The third chapter introduces the basic situation of the study area. Divided into two small parts:Introduce the local geography environment including local geographical location, the terrain, appearance, climate, rainfall; introductions of local social culture include material culture, spirit culture. The fourth chapter is the main part of the thesis, The author describes the field work, this paper expounds the author join an even many times acting offering the specific process of god activities, In this section, the author will through the words and pictures of the scene again acting offering to god. Chapter5the author tries to use cultural anthropology function of socialist view to decipher the phenomenon; Epilogue part is the study of opera to modern society public culture in the life of the country and the value of drama activity development of the request and the government in the country culture activities should be the role.