A Study On The Changes Of Folk Life In A Village Of Huizhou

Mingzhou village is a cultural village with a long history,located in Xiuning County,Huangshan city,.Anhui Province.According to the legend,to escape the Huangchao rebellion,Wu Yi's wife and children escaped into the territory of Xiuning,then settled down.During the Yuan dynasty,Wuxiang,the Wus children of the nineteenth generation,led the descendants migrate from Shimen to Mingzhou village,that was located in the upstream of Shuaishui river.Thus,the ancient Mingzhou village came into being.Mingzhou village has a long history and deep cultural connotation,the two remained Huizhou documents about Mingzhou village has a strong research value.The first is "Mingzhou Woo's family record",recorded the Ming-zhou social life,including social records,material records and so on in a narrative way according to the realities of life in the Ming dynasty;Second,by the influence of Zhu Xi's Neo-Confucianism,Wu's descendants Wu Zhai combined with the actual situation of the village,wrote a "Mingzhou Woo's family code",as a code of conduct norms.From the Ming and Qing to the contemporary society,the social economy,culture,life etc as a whole had undergone tremendous changes.Changes of traditional villages in Huizhou folk life are multifaceted,but the changes are adapt to the direction of life changes under the premise of maintaining the original folk ritual,simplifying complicated material.At present,the villagers celebrate the festival just for the traditional ceremony,not the feeling of relief,Based on the background of social change,relying on field research,the thesis elaborates on the changes of folklore in the ceremony from the changes of festivals and etiquette of human life.The article is divided into five chapters,mainly includes three parts:introduction,text and conclusion.The first chapter is the introduction,consists of dissertations reason,present academic research and research methods.The second chapter is about field investigation,introducing the geographical location,climate,economy,tourism resources and other information.In addition,study the origin of Mingzhou village,and make conceptual definition between the traditional Mingzhou village and the modern Mingzhou village.The third chapter uses the example of time and seasons to illustrate changes of Mingzhou folk life and social life,which includes New Year's Eve and the Spring Festival,Ching Ming Festival and the Dragon Boat Festival,and some local special festivals,like midwinter,spring begins and miji.The villagers are relatively free at midwinter,spring begins and miji,they held festival activities to pray in spring and offer thanks in fall,reflecting the mass psychology that praying for external strength to get psychological comfort in agricultural economy background.The fourth chapter,choosing "Mingzhou Woo's family code" as the basis,studies on changes of Guan Li,wedding ceremony and mourning from Ming and Qing Dynasties to the present,detailly analyzing from four aspects:birth ritual,adulthood rites,marriage ceremonies and funeral rites.In ancient times,the rituals are closely related to the increase and decrease of the clan population.Before ceremony,the villagers usually went to the ancestral hall to inform the ancestors.The tribe strengthens the connection between each family by participating in the rites of the family.Nowadays,the flow of the population brings about the weakening of the clan sense,the meaning of life ritual is mainly for the personal home.The fifth chapter is the conclusion of the article.The economy,culture and migration movement have changed a lot since reform and openness,and the folk life has also changed to meet the present life in Huizhou ancient village.How to inherit the essence of traditional ritual and integrate with the times is a main problem needed to solve in the change of the folk-culture.