Research On The Custom Of Mankind Day In Huaining Lidian Village, Anhui Province

Mankind Day is the seventh day in Januarys in the lunar calendar, it also called "Rensheng Day" or "Rensheng Festival". It was porevalenced from Han and Wei Dynasties to Ming and Qing Dynasties, a lot of traditional customs are running with various new wishes and culture meaning. Until now, lots of traditional custom of Mankind Day are vanished gradually, but following the developing of society, new performance during the Mankind Day is growing robustly in some area. In this paper, Huaining Lidian Village, Anhui province is selected as the sample, in order to learn the village culture and original residents life-style, the local traditional activities are researched, the culture meaning and social functions are studied through the local on-site research.The paper is a thematic study for the custom of Mankind Day in Huaining Lidian Village, Anhui province, arounding the research object, I'll try to study from the following six sections:Firstly, introduction. Introduce the background and the researching direction for this paper, through the learning and analyses of the pre-study. And introduce the researching methods and some key problems.Secondly,introduce the regional background of Huaining Lidian Village, including the introduction of nature and culture, history and the regional folk culture.Thirdly, Introduce the form of expression for customs of Mankind Day in Huaining Lidian Village by combining with the literature data and field investigation results, First, analysis the local custom of Mankind Day origination and developing, second, introduce the Mankind Day details to show the over-view of the cuntom of Lidian village.Fourthly, analysize the cultural connotations for customs of of Mankind Day in Lidian Village. Various culture meaning included in the customs of of Mankind Day, in this part, through the analysize for the collective memory, life theme during the spring festival, witchcraft ceremony, worship about the red color and taboo about the blood? to reveal the local culture features.Fifthly, discuss the Mankind Day custom's impact on the local village society. Through the analysize, the customs of of Mankind Day of the local village social influence mainly reflected in three aspects:educate citizens, we should standardize the order of morality and; Strengthen memory, promoting cultural identity and adjust life, active atmosphere of the village, and so on.Sixthly, conclusion.through the researching for the customs of of Mankind Day of Lidian village status to analysis the win-win interaction between the new countryside construction and the local traditional culture protecting.