| The She Nationality is a Mountain Home nation with long history, after thousands of years of migration, inserting fancy distributed in southeast mountain area of China, with the majority of the Han Nationality. The south of Zhejiang province, where the She Nationality moved late into during the Ming and Qing, is the migration zone of the She Nationality. In the early years, with high mountains, cold water, inconvenient transportation and low productivity, it is an undeveloped area. Under the specific historical and geographical background, the She Nationality in south of Zhejiang province formed a distinctive folk customs of god belief system, the Flower Goddess is one of the most far-reaching influence goddess.This paper selects the Shangtangfan village, which is in the Lixin She Nationality town, Lishui city, south of Zhejiang province, as the depth of field points, and chooses the villages around this village as village field reference. Uses a combination of literature reasearch and field surveys, it attempts to investigate and study the Flower Goddess faith of the She Nationality, to focus on the research of the ceremony of faith and its deep cultural implication behind the belief, and to expound on the issue how to maintain its own culture character, while interacts with the Han Nationality.This article is divided into six parts, the first part is the introduction, which introduces the reason for choosing the topic, research significance, study on the current situation of the goddess of faith, research methods and field site selection.The second part introduces the field community background, including the analysis of the natural and geographical environment, the human geography environment and the She Nationality of Lishui. It focuses on the unique living mode and gender division of labor in society, and the marginalized culture and education of the She Nationality in Lishui, and highlight the role of the women of She Nationality in social production and living.The third part is an overview of the Flower Goddess faith of the She Nationality in Lishui. Discussing the origin of the belief distribution, legend, literature and oral tradition, ceremony space and the main body of the faithful and the clergy function of the Flower Goddess in the She Nationality which was shaped by the people in this nationality. The Flower Goddess is s composite image of the goddess with kinds of god functions in one, who can secure the women and children, get rid of illnesses and misfortunes, and protect the whole area in the She Nationality.The fourth part mainly unfolds around the ritual of the Flower Goddess faith. It discusses the medium of ritual on the faith and the ritual process, for example,floral worship, ask the goddess and thanks for the songs, and analysis the efficacious stories of the flower arrangement in detail. In the ritual ceremony of the Flower Goddess, all the ask goddess ritual and ritual votive uses songs of the She Nationality between the people and goddess, it has the most national characterstics.The fifth part mainly discusses the cultural interaction between the She and Han in the Flower Goddess faith. The faith is gradually constructed in the interactive between the She Nationality and the local Han Nationality in Lishui, implies the history of ethnic relations. It has combined with the Han Nationality religious belief and retained its traditional national culture characteristics at the same time, not only has a mysterious witch culture color, but also has the unique romantic feelings of the She Nationality. And it is hidden behind the female worship of the She Nationality in the early.Finally, the conclusion is an extension of the whole thesis. The main discussion is the significance of existence and the modern inheritance of the Flower Goddess. |
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