A Study Of The "Zuo Gong De" Funeral Rite Of She Nationality (Take Peitou Village In Wenc-heng County Of Zhejiang Province As A Case)

She nationality people have always attached great importance to funeral rites."Zuo Gong De" is a unique cultural phenomenon in She nationality people’s lives, it contains abundant historic culture, and condensing the unique cultural psychology of She nationality people.This paper selects the "Zuo Gong De" funeral rite of She nationality in Peitou village in Huang Tan town of Wencheng County of Wenzhou City of Zhejiang province as the research content, and mainly integrated adopt field investigation and literature research methods, to do experience observation and in-depth description on the folklore matters of "Zuo Gong De" funeral rite. The "Zuo Gong De" funeral rite of She Nationality in Peitou village is the national cultural being accumulated from their traditional social lives. It has the characteristics of history, geography and nationality. Thus, the author preliminary analyze the cultural connotation witch behind the "Zuo Gong De" funeral rite, and further discusses its social function. This paper attempts to highlight the important position and role of "Zuo Gong De" funeral rite in the She nationality people’s lives and to understand She people’s word outlook and cultural traits by investigating and studying the folklore of "Zuo Gong De" rite. Thus, we can better understand the present survival situation about the culture of She nationality, and to better protect, inherit, and develop the traditional culture of She nationality.In the concrete structure, the paper is divided into six parts. The first part is the introduction, it explains the origin and significance, research topics, main research methods and field selection; The second part illustrates the related concepts and the traditional model on "Zuo Gong De" funeral rite of She Nationality, then analyzes the causes of its formation; According to the time sequence, the third part descriptes the field case of "Zuo Gong De" funeral rite of She Nationality in Peitou village in detail; As the basis of the case, the fourth part introduces the cultural connotation of the rite in depth; The fifth part preliminarily discusses the social function of "Zuo Gong De" funeral rite; Finally, the conclusion part has made the related thinking to the contemporary trend of "Zuo Gong De" funeral rite of She nationality in Peitou village by combining with two kinds of theory that is the cultural collapse and the cultural adaptation, and points out that the vicissitude of "Zuo Gong De" funeral rite of She nationality in Peitou village is a process of cultural adaptation and cultural regeneration.The study of "Zuo Gong De" funeral rite of She Nationality in the paper is only a kind of attempt discussion on funeral culture of She nationality. It can be said to be the result of the author’s research interest during the postgraduate. Both of the theory and the empiric are still need to better perfect and develop.