The Structure Transition Of Birthday Ceremony And The Shift Of Its Functions

Everyone has a birth date, the same day after birth year is named as Birthday,and people always hold a ceremony for this special day which is called Birthdayceremony. It represents someone will be a new age from the old one, or get anew status from the old one. This kind of ceremony is one of the life rituals,which is widespread phenomenon in the world. People celebrate their ownbirthday and take part in others’.As the modern society development, people know more about the life theory,the meaning of birthday is alterative, it is changed that what the Birthdayceremony wants to tell as well. We will come to the transitions of folk Birthdaycustoms in China, and take Ten-Year-Birthday in TianChang county of AnHuiprovince. From the20century till now, there are two main shifts in this Birthdayceremony, one is the shift from God bless to requesting people; the other one isthe shift from a traditional life ritual to a social contact ceremony. What’s more,sometimes two or three families who are in different ages hold their Birthdayceremony in the same occasion, and the new rule about how to choose the datecomes out, they take the younger child’s birthday into account, not the older.And recently the reconstructive―JiaPuHui‖is integrated to theTen-Year-Birthday ceremony. All these new phenomenon make TheTen-Year-Birthday ceremony to be different from traditional one and that inother places.Based on the analysis of structures of the Ten-Year-Birthday in TianChang,we found that there are two new requirements, the first is person want to getmore attentions from the community; the other is community needs moreinteractions to against the liquid modernity, which threats the relationships in thecommunity. And the Ten-Year-Birthday ceremony exactly right can offerhigh-Frequency interactions because of its periodicity andrepeatability.Therefore, Ten-Year-Birthday get a new place to stay and newfunctions.