Village Identity And Regional Social Identity Of The Gods Worship Tradition

In the rural society,temple fair is often a big event in a village.In this activity,various relations within the village and between the village and the outside can be generated through personal participation,which inspires us to understand the ritual activities in the village from the perspective of the body.Shanxi Hejin Lianbo village is located in the Yellow River,is neither fair center nor traffic arteries,but it has a famous temple--GaoMei Temple.Early reform and opening up,the Gao Mei Temple fair recovered gradually.In the process of recovery,longitudinal with state power penetration,the horizontal with the surrounding area public donations.The multi-party forces have jointly promoted the recovery and prosperity of this temple event.Therefore Gao Mei temple is located in the village,and ritual activities only held in the village,its essence is no longer just an activity within the village,but a symboel of the entire region of Hejin,and even greater range.Based on the field work,this paper uses this case to try to show the local people in this spiritual sacrificial activities,from what aspects,how to achieve the temple fair is not only village,but also the local identity of the villageThe paper is divided into five parts.The introduction briefly introduces the origin of the topic,research significance,relevant research review and research methods,and points out that the research object of this paper is a regional spiritual sacrifice tradition.The first chapter is the village context.It briefly introduces the geographical environment of Hejin,and even the village people work mode,in order to illustrate the geographical environment and humane environment of Gao Mei faith germinal.The second chapter mainly discusses the folk beliefs in Hejin,focusing on the Gao Mei belief and its development,the process of rebuilding and legend story,in order to illustrate the the orthodox position of Gao Mei belief in Hejin folk beliefs.The third chapter is based on Gao Mei spring temple fair in 2018,briefly described the complete ceremony of Gao Mei temple fair,and put the ceremony at the people living in the world,and magnifiy it to discuss how the temple fair as a ritual practice to realize regional identity.And from the angles of temple ceremony and participate in the crowd,depicts how Gao Mei beliefs from one village to regional society,how to change in the process and experience.The fourth chapter takes daily life as the breakthrough point,from burning incense,seeing a doctor,asking things,pulling out a flower that asking for a child and having a nominal kinship,discussed how the people are related to the GaoMei Temple in the days of non-temple fair.