Differences Impact Study Of Ancestor Worship To The Participants’s Social Capital

In recent years, with the development of economy and social culture, the same surname of large ancestor worship activities became popular, people citing a variety of purposes, called on the same surname’s people involved. As a unique cultural tradition of the Chinese nation,"roots" ancestor worship "return to people’s horizons again. Chinese people Influenced by tradition and embracing new ideas between inheriting and abandoning the folk is faced with choices. Mr Liang shu-ming think Chinese culture is a culture of "family ethics", there is no doubt that full of thick flavor of ancestor worship is the concentrated expression of Chinese "family ethics" culture.Ancestor worship of G village have been held in this article, we will use L surname as a case, go deep into village, interview the main sponsor to ancestor worship activities for many times, and do the questionnaire survey to all the participants of G village, to the cause, the condition, the background of ancestor worship, the ancestor worship for people’s social capital impact, and analyzed the influence of community differences. Try to explore the reasons of the existence of such differences, as well as people how to better use the social relations to enhance social capital of them.Study found that people based on common ancestor approval and renewal word’s need to be launched this ancestor worship, ancestor worship organizers belong to the person with higher social status, higher prestige, and the possession of social capital is more accordingly of the group. Ancestor worship to the participants of different age, role, the influence of social capital is quite different. This mainly displays in people who participant ancestor worship, whose changes of individual network, changes of social support, changes of help differences in different person this three aspects. Clan ancestor worship can bring people return in instrumental and affective return, but the degree of returns between different community there is a big different, how to promote social capital, also need to maintain and extend the relationship network.