Worship Of Marine Culture In Modern China

Since ancient times, marine resources is an essential part of natural resources in human society.It provides human society with fishing, transportation, power energy.In the human production, plays an indispensable role in the life.And ocean spawned a vast, long ocean civilization, added infinite mystery and imagination for human society, greatly enrich the spiritual world of human beings.China's marine civilization initiation in the neolithic age.People at that time speculated the mysterious ocean constantly, imagined if there also existed another society similar to human in the ocean.And in this world there was also ranks and families.Neptune families are not only the jurisdiction of the ocean world, but also have regulatory responsibilities to the human society.According to the different responsibilities of allocation, they are divided into different levels, creating a triton system.Early in the feudal society, people's worship of the sea was very abstract.As the feudal system was increasingly perfect, specific sea image was created, idol worship arising,and the ancient sea sacrificial ceremony also arise.Before the tang dynasty, sea sacrificial rite is only looking at offering.After Tang dynasty set up, and gradually established the yue zhen hai du sacrificial system, Neptune sacrifice was customized.After Song dynasty, along with the growing prosperity of commodity economy, the private sea image is becoming more and more dominant, the most typical representatives is mazu.Chinese ancient sea god worship transformed from blind, scattered into the system,and finally stabilitied in the song, yuan, Ming and qing dynasties.After entering the modern, ocean worship was unprecedented.First of all, it is suffered from the challenge of western modern ocean civilization.Western military power opened the door of China, making some Chinese people realized the advancement of western ocean civilization,so the sea power, haiphong ideas constantly appeared.Top-down propaganda and encouragement made the national ocean consciousness awake.Especially the western missionaries leaded series activities,such as the missionary activities, start the education institutions, medical institutions, the establishment of the enterprise, creating a incalculable blow to the traditional Chinese ocean culture worship.Secondly,under the impact of the advanced western ocean civilization, Chinese recognized that only changing the traditional Chinese ocean worship can realize the modernization of the Chinese ocean civilization. So the people of different classes were opposed to the traditional Chinese ocean civilization,Such as the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom Movement, self-strengthening movement, the reform movement, the preparatory constitutional in the late qing dynasty,The May 4th movement, new culture movement period of the Republic of China and the national revolution, etc.Faced with the challenge of all-round and multi-angle, the traditional Chinese ocean worship has made timely adjustment and response.Mazu arose in the folk, and had very strong mass base, so the impact did not produce very big effect to it, mazu belief survived many times, and spread in secret to abroad.Modern qinghai lake is very grand sacrifice, not suppressed by the policy, in the period of the Republic of China having become the national government reassurance, powerful means for unity.But compared with ancient, qinghai lake sacrifice although preserved, but changes have taken place in the form and substance.God of the east China sea due to the strategic position and function can't meet the needs of modern society, declined roundly.The god of the south China sea is located in guangzhou, so in modern times by different degrees of importance.Chinese traditional culture worship god besides sea sacrifice, there are many other forms. The most typical forms are ocean literature, ocean music and ocean buildings, these are the embodiment of the ancient people worship to the sea, is also an important part of the traditional Chinese ocean culture.These changes in modern history is the traditional Chinese ocean civilization toward the important embodiment of modernization.Throughout the development of modern ocean worship in China, we can see a few of qualities.First, worship of Marine culture diversity mainly reflected in two aspects, the number of people belief sea and sea function.Second, the Marine worship culture has the characteristics of simplification.This traditional Chinese ocean fete ceremony were very multifarious.Third, the worship of Marine culture has the characteristics of science and technology. As western advanced science and technology came in, China's Marine culture worship changed.Especially the development of news media make the sea people having the real-time understanding.Fourth, the worship of Marine culture has the characteristics of the practical application. Worship of the ancient sea stayed in faith level,but in modern became increasingly economical.The development of Chinese marine worship culture since ancient times, not only makes us have the comprehensive knowledge of Chinese marine worship culture, also has a very important role in reality to the cultural construction of today's China.We should pay attention to the construction of coastal defense, sea power and navy, maintain stability and security of waters in our country, at the same time should pay attention to the Chinese and foreign cultural exchanges and cooperation, achieve mutual benefit and win-win results between the two sides.Once again, we must strengthen the protection of marine environment.Facing with the marine culture in our country, we should actively restore the traditional sea sacrificial ceremony and sea temple, mainly from saving traditional Marine sacrifice culture, development of marine economy, marine academic activities and other aspects.In short, modern Chinese marine worship culture inherited and developed the traditional Chinese ocean culture.It keeps some reasonable elements of the traditional marine culture, and absorbs the beneficial factors of the advanced western ocean civilization.The worship of Marine culture in contemporary China pointed out the direction of construction.