The Function Of The Rural Folk Beliefs

Since the early1980s, with the reform of the great success and social transformation, folkbelief activities gradually developed into a very active social phenomenon. How to look at the reallife in the widespread folk belief? However, most of the folk beliefs are only pay attention to theirfaith level, and with the knowledge of religion, the theory of interpretation, lack of this belief andstudying on the relationship between the real life. So my paper aims at the research perspective,specific to Ledu in Qinghai province Dalu village temple beliefs as an example, from"contemporary folk beliefs and people life relationship from the perspective of research on ruralfolk beliefs about the function of this proposition, from the current reality of social public lifepopular folk beliefs, especially in a typical temple on faith as an example, from public life reality,transference on the field investigation to investigation, the investigation of first-hand informationand related cultural material as the base, in full possession of material on the basis of" the ruralfolk beliefs are function is greater than the negative function this theory hypothesis "makeverification and analysis.This thesis is divided into five parts:The first part, this paper puts forward the significance of research of folk beliefs; The folkbelief concept, characteristics and functions, as well as the influence factors of folk beliefs in theliterature review, Research design is put forward.The second part, this paper introduces the survey area qinghai road village economicconditions, beliefs, environment, and other basic situation and the basic characteristics of thesample.The third part, with the field survey and the interview as the foundation of analyzing thepresent situation of temple belief.The fourth part, first theoretically discusses the folk beliefs of the general function, and thenfrom the folk beliefs of the nature of cognitive status, folk beliefs management situation, the roleof the folk beliefs to understand the function of the folk belief in the play.The fifth part, mainly discusses the research conclusion, discussion and research deficiency.Mainly from the rural folk beliefs utilitarianism, folk beliefs of individual differences and folkbelief function on research conclusion, and from the social environment, individual factors andnational policy from the three aspects of the rural folk beliefs of the status of further discussion.