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The Game Of National Policy VS People’s Tradition

Posted on:2017-01-03Degree:MasterType:Thesis
Country:ChinaCandidate:S X FengFull Text:PDF
GTID:2295330482999796Subject:Folklore
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Chinese believe the concept of immortality of the soul. The concept of ancestor faith is enduring. Ancestors worship has been internalized into people’s lives. For the people, the ancestors of the family tomb, is the nearest place from ancestors, and is living and the dead emotional connection people through worship and bustling disaster pray for blessing. For the dead, the "returning to their roots, soul hometown" is a great comfort to their graves to the root ancestors and a secular communication window. Grave worship has become a major form of contemporary worship. After the founding of New China, the grave is subjected to a brutal test of reality. "Removing grave movement" played again and again, but the grave was not disappear because of the intervention of the nation.We ushered a revival of worship. Why did come this result? With this problem, I went into the G village in Liaoning, trying to cut "the removing grave movement" veil, and interacted with the national will and the folk beliefs in-depth presentation and discussion.The G village is a farming village dominated more traditional village. After the new China, the grave became the target of struggle between the nation and the people, It exhibited different characteristics under different social backgrounds. Although the country has a tradition of civil control and the dominant force, the traditional folk culture of the national will face constraints. Although occasional faded, never disappeared. Fundamental research, strong vitality of the grave itself is the main reason. State control in the strength of the force does not have a decisive role for the existence of traditional folk heritage. Inherent vitality played a decisive role.The introduction of the article focuses on the topic reason, current research, research methods, and lack of innovation as well as background on fieldwork locations G village introduction. The first chapter is the explanation of the origin and significance of ancestor worship, cemeteries for the dead and the living where the emotional connection, part of the tomb is the family. The living and the dead contact closely. The main body of the second chapter is about the whole story of removing grave in G village. They are divided into three periods, namely the Great Leap Forward, the Cultural Revolution, when and after the Cultural Revolution, and strive to reveal the whole picture of "removing the grave". The third chapter is written grave worship revival in G village nearly two decades. Mandatory Hiratsuka gradually drops out from people’s lives, which ushers the revival of grave worship. Increasingly rich form of worship while worship has also been legalized, the Qing Ming Festival has been written to the national statutory holiday inside. Chapter four is the key chapter of this paper is to write the official and folk traditions around the grave on the interaction of understanding and analysis. Ancestral faith has rooted cultural features and strong vitality. Even if the original economic base disappears or does not have a real function, but when its spiritual significance is bigger than the practical needs, the foundation of ancestral culture is not shake. The grave will not go away.
Keywords/Search Tags:Remove Grave, Ancestor Sacrifice, National Policy, Tradition Revival
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