Village Folk Belief And The Construction Of Social Order

The worship of Dragon God,a folk belief bred and grown in Lintan County,has carried forward the eternal and everlasting vitality in the long river of more than 600 years.It is of great significance to study this ancient folk culture in the local society of multi-ethnic integration and coexistence.This paper takes Shangzhai village,a small village with mixed ethnic groups in Lintan County,as the research object,and discusses the operation mechanism of the belief in Dragon God in the context of village culture.First of all,the geographical environment and historical background of the village are explained,and the growing soil of the culture of Dragon God belief is clarified;secondly,the historical background of the local Dragon God belief is explained with the historical documents;thirdly,the spatial order of the construction of the Dragon God belief is examined;The fifth chapter includes the investigation of the Dragon God belief and the village society and folk from the aspects of belief organization,ceremony and festival custom respectively The dynamic construction process of order.Finally,it involves the content of gender order in belief culture.It is found that the inner power of the cultural operation of Dragon God belief is that it has been acting as an unwritten rule and order in the village and even the whole local society.It plays an important role in strengthening the cooperation of local social groups,promoting the understanding and tolerance among groups,and maintaining the benign operation of the village and even the whole local social order.At the same time,the gender order of the sacred space constructed by the Dragon God belief is the mapping of the gender order in the real world.With the development of society,the gender order in the sacred and secular fields is also changing.