A Hollow Village And Its Vicissitudes Of Folk Beliefs

In this paper, the author took ethnic village as field point, investigated the status of folk beliefs multiethnic areas, and studied the changes of local folk beliefs in recent decades. In the description and analysis about ethnic village’s folk beliefs of ideas, rituals, etc, the author attempted to more accurately and comprehensive render all aspects of the change course of folk beliefs. This paper is divided into seven chapters.The first chapter is an introduction. It introduces the significance of the topic, an overview of research methods and research, then defines the concept of folk beliefs. The second chapter describes the geography, folklore, livelihoods and population movements in the survey point. The third chapter details the main elements of folk beliefs and simply summarizes the changes the concept of ethnic villagers faith. The main contents of ethnic village’s folk beliefs include spirit worship, ancestor worship, totem worship and witchcraft beliefs. Massive outflow of people are making folk beliefs increasingly blurred, apathy, simplified. The fourth chapter deals with the spiritualism people of folk beliefs-priests’ occupational status and significant features. The fifth chapter takes festivals and pan-ceremony as example to analyze the changes about contents of folk custom of folk beliefs. The festival includes Two days of February, Qing Ming and Halloween. The pan-ceremony includes Housewarming, Marry and Votive. The sixth chapter chronicles the main content of the funeral ceremony, after that analyze the changes about folk religious contents of folk beliefs. The seventh chapter explores the changes and the reasons for folk beliefs. The author thinks that rural hollowing makes folk beliefs of ethnic village increasingly empty of qualitative component and increasingly involution of religious component.