A Study On The Customs Of Ghost Marriage In The Song Country

The Ghost marriage customs have been circulating in the Song County area for a long time.The archaeological data in the Heluo culture plate where the county is located confirmed that there were records of Ghost marriage in the Eastern Han Dynasty,at least two thousand years of history.This custom has been circulating for thousands of years and is still popular among the people.The contemporary Ghost marriage customs in Song County is a very local customs.It is closely integrated with the local social culture and reflects the ideological concepts of the people and the ghosts.At the same time,it plays a psychological and practical role in the people's lives.An important part of the life of the folk.This article will use folklore,sociology and anthropology methods to study the relationship between Ghost marriage customs and contemporary society,and explain the reasons why the Ghost marriage customs have been passed down through the millennium.The introduction part introduces the basic situation of this topic,including the reason and significance of the topic,the research status of the predecessors,the definition of the main concepts and the research ideas and methods.As a regional folklore study,this paper will start from a microscopic perspective,taking a village's Ghost marriage customs as a research object,and examining its characteristics and its relationship with the village.The first chapter introduces the historical evolution and general characteristics of the custom of Ghost marriage,and concludes that the custom of the soul originated from the Yin and Shang dynasties.It was officially banned during the week;the Han and Wei began to appear in the official history and was accepted by some noble royal families;The Ghost marriage is prosperous,and all walks of life have records of Ghost marriage,especially the royal family;after the Sui and Tang Dynasties,the custom of Ghost marriage has continued to develop and spread to the present.It summarizes the contemporary non-mainstream characteristics of the small traditions in the county,the stability of history and the contemporary variability.The second chapter focuses on the current situation of Yanzhuang Village in the case study,describing the natural and human conditions of Yanzhuang Village and the temporal and spatial distribution of contemporary Ghost marriage customs.By describing the current status of religious beliefs in Yanzhuang Village,the festival culture and the concept of “non-legacy” and Ghost marriage and funeral,it is concluded that the traditional concept of Yanzhuang Village still dominates.Through the analysis of the time and space distribution of contemporary Ghost marriage customs in Yanzhuang Village,the development track of contemporary Ghost marriage customs is traced,and it is concluded that the Ghost marriage customs are a very local customs.The third chapter explores the ritual process of the Ghost marriage customs itself.According to the classification criteria of predecessors,according to the actual situation of Yanzhuang Village,the contemporary Ghost marriage customs are divided into three types: the deceased elders are the late generations,the deceased are the sponsors,and the deceased are the elders.The concept of ghosts,ancestor worship,and witchcraft thinking are used to explain the rituals of Ghost marriage Ghost marriage,and the whole process is explained by two "thresholds" of transitional etiquette.The fourth chapter analyzes the function and role of the Ghost marriage customs in contemporary society.The practice of Ghost marriage can comfort the dead,comfort the living,help the family's continuation and inheritance of the property,and also expand the family power.