The End Of A Sacred Era:the Folk Religion And Social Order Of Ancun

Ancun,located in the outskirts of Kunming Dianchi Lake,appeared in academic research for the first time in the 1940s,and was one of the social survey site of the study of Chenggong grassroots political power made by Hu Qingjun during "Kuige"period.He found that the traditional social life and social structure were embedded in the complex religious life in Ancun,which formed the grassroots self-governing organizations called "Da gongjia and Huipai".His pioneering research is the starting point of this study.Along with Hu Qingjun's discussion on the self-governing organizations and grassroots political power in a traditional village,this study attempts to explore the changes of social order and the transformation of social structure through the folk religion in Ancun.How the traditional Han village of Yunnan borderland produced its local order and the traditional imperial system realized the control of the local society through the folk religion.And corresponding to the modern society how will the folk religion and the social order construction be changed in Ancun.China's modernization try to use "modernity" to replace the "traditional" since modern times,as a result the traditional rural society is facing a change to modern society.Folk religion gradually lost its living space in the process of building the national modernization regime,and the life style and social order constructed by the old tradition were completely destroyed.The social transformation and economic development after the reform and opening up,making folk religion to regain its legitimacy of living space.But in fact it is further weakened the social basis of folk religion-secularism,individualism and market rationality and other new factors common Run the sacred space of folk religion.On this basis,the rebuilding of the temples in the rural society,the reproduction of the religious event in the end is the traditional revival,or cultural reengineering?Traditional beliefs and rituals in a variety of ways "reenchantment" can re-construct the values of rural society and public culture?What is the status of folk religion in the order of modern rural society?Therefore,based on the response to the above-mentioned problems,the analysis of this paper takes time as a clue to study the changes in the folk religion and social order production of Ancun from the dimension of historical process.This article describes a village folk religion performances from traditional to modern,as well as from it in the reflection of the changes in state and social relations and the way of social order to achieve.From the evolution of folk religion to find out the logic of social order to achieve and change,and from the perspective of social integrity to grasp the general process of social changes in Ancun.This study is a continuation of the research paradigm of the State and social which is universally accepted by the academy and society,and takes Ancun in eastern Yunnan as the case object,and thinks that the traditional period imperial system and the local society make each other possible in the practice of folk religion.The theoretical framework of the State-folk religion-society is both established social structure and a structural process of order production.Because of folk religion,the traditional state and society formed a dual bottom-up and top-down path of social order production.And the logic of this order production is hidden in the traditional rural society ordinary people living world,in where folk religion as a cultural system determines people's practical reason.First of all it has been fully restored and described the traditional period of folk religion and social order production of Ancun in this article.Secondly,according to the course of social change,it has been reorganized and recalled the impact of Ancun folk religion under the national state discourse and the revival after the development of the market economy.It is believed that the realization of social order in Ancun has undergone a fundamental transformation.Modern Ancun actually encountered in the modern plight of the social order,in which folk religion can no longer play a role.The last part discusses the secularization of the folk religion of Ancun under the background of modernity,and further expounds the loss of meaning system and the way of socail order realization based on folk religion.Through a traditional and modern comparison of the village,the change of the times of folk religion actually reflects the change of the logic of social order production,and also clearly reflects the transformation of the rural social structure.