State And Social Interaction With Funeral Changes

Funeral in the traditional society was highly respected. After the founding of new China, the traditional funeral rites undergone several changes and once interrupted until revived after the reform and opening up. However, some areas after the funeral revival went to completely different path. How the funeral changes Ruth is a question of the author to explore. The author take Lingguandianc village as an example, in order to explore the logic behind the funeral change.The first part describes the traditional funeral ceremony. Describes in detail of each link from the dead early death to sacrifice, analyzes the features of traditional funeral ceremony and cultural expression. And point out that the traditional funeral is a common need of the state and society, is the product of the construction of state and society.The second part describes the funeral ceremony in different historical period. Including of the transformation of the funeral ritual at1950, the revolution between the "cultural revolution" period, the revival after the reform and opening policy, the reengineering in the new period. Always take the relation between sate and society as the macro background in the process of investigation. analyse the different performance in the different historical period.The third part focuses on the point that state and society relation is embedded in funeral ceremony changes. Analyzes the process of how the interaction promote the change of funeral ceremony; how the state and society relation determine the changes of the funeral ceremony, including the independent development under he separation of state and society, the reform under the cooperation of state and society, the interruption of funeral ceremony under the integration of state and society, the reengineering under under the background of separation; Using the method of system theory, analyzed the relationship between state and society influence the change of funeral rites mechanism, including the demand change of "input","convert" system of rites, rituals "output" of the system, and the results of the "feedback".The fourth part discusses the likelihood development direction of this kind of funeral ceremony, think such funeral ceremony will change and a more in line with the modern civilization of ritual will take its place, but the change will be a long process; In the process of promoting the modernization of traditional culture, we should establish a dialogue and negotiations channel based on the equality of national and social relations; Reflect the deficiency of the traditional ritual studies, one path to beyond the traditional research is focus on political life state power interactive with the ceremony; Finally pointed out that to expand the research Angle of view, it is important to embed the market as the new variables, establish a "state-society-market" analysis framework in order to make up for the inadequacy of research.