Research On Praying And Dispelling Disaster Function Of Ground-long Lantern In Laifeng County

Laifeng Ground-Long Lantern is a folk dance for local blessing with an intensive ceremony and a distinct pray function. As a bright mind of local, it manifests and reproduces the social reality and cultural spirit.In another words,this art is also an great achievement of Laifeng people’s wisdom and culture, which reflects the social life and local psychological activities and is a literary folk culture and cultural behavior integrating with dialects, local dance, painting skill and performing art.Ground-Long Lantern is an important intangible cultural heritage and this paper indicates its cultural integration for praying and disaster elimination by synthetically considering and analyzing. From the perspective of the holder of local culture, the Ground-Long Lantern is a crucial media tool which can help local residents keep in touch with each other and then reach a culture consensus. This paper is organized as five sections. Introduction presents the derivation and current situation of Ground-Long Lantern, analyzes the theoretical and practical significance, and elaborates the related work over the world and research perspective for cultural integration of literary anthropology. Section 1 analyzesthe expression of praying and disaster eliminating in the Ground-Long Lantern ceremony process, which includes initiation and preparation, development and climax, and ending. Section 2 interprets these roles in the amazing local legends and performance ceremonies of Ground-Long Lantern, and the connotation of praying and disaster eliminating of the auspicious birds and beasts, such as Longs, phoenixes, tigers, fishes, turtles, clams and shrimps. In Section 3, we present the field survey of Ground-Long Lantern, analyze from different views, including the organizers and actors, interprets its cognitive function for stake holdersof the ceremony, and then present the historical and cultural phenomena of its function. Epilogue introduces the cultural significance and social value of Ground-Long Lantern, emphasizesits dilemma and trend, aiming at improving social focus to collect, protect, create, inherit and research on Ground-Long Lantern.