A Study On The Psychological Characteristics Of Folk Beliefs In The Villages Of Southern Anhui Province

Kitchen God has representative in the folk beliefs of many gods. Its secularity and sacred fully reflect a riot of colors of the folk belief culture. In the history, Kitchen God as one of the ancient five enshrined gods, was manipulated and controlled by all the ruling classes. It is an important medium of parsing the folk belief psychological characteristics.In this article, the first chapter firstly gives an overview of the study of folk beliefs at home and abroad; The general situation about Wu Ji Village(in southern Hebei) and the folk belief are summarized in the second chapter; It analysis the folk belief psychological characteristics based on the New Year pictures in the third chapter. It expresses the psychological characteristics of the folk belief pursuing beauty and desire based on Wu Ji Village strong folk belief atmosphere and the example of New Year pictures worshiped; The Fourth chapter interprets Wu Ji Village people's psychological belief before and after offering sacrifices to Kitchen God. It shows the utilitarianism and contradictory psychological characteristics through assaying the ambivalence of choosing, the unilaterally exchanging psychology before the offering and manipulating the god, the cathartic and complementary psychology, avoiding psychological disadvantage, man and god reunion psychology and the utilitarian and practical psychology of daily sacrificing to the Kitchen God during the sacrificing; The fifth chapter interprets the kitchen legend in Wu Ji Village, which reflects the psychology of people's demeaning banter to the god.Kitchen God is a product of historical development, and is also the miniature of the real life. Folk belief is a kind of folk cultural heritage, and is also the psychological product of people's needs. Wu Ji Village through interpretation of worship of kitchen New Year pictures, people and legend, the three connected can discover hidden deep in the heart of the folk belief. It can discover the folk belief deeply hidden in the people's heart. The description about the related kitchen god belief custom and legend which must gone deep into the internal level can explore the hidden mental content. The kitchen god all around clearly shows the struggle between the folk and official culture. Man's situation and experience often influence their literature creations. So taking the Kitchen God as an example for analyzing this has an important meaning to study folk belief psychological characteristics.