Ritual Politics:Authority And Order In Traditional "Jieye" Festivals

Shehuo ceremony is a common Festival ceremony in Guanzhong area,usually held during the Spring Festival,with a wide variety and a long history."Jieye meeting" is a kind of social fire ceremony with the characteristics of village A.based on such a folk characteristic as Cross Village jieye,the local mutual aid organization,i.e.management organization,is the simplest organization form to realize the ritual needs.The traditional rural society is in the state of "the imperial power is not under the county",the state can not provide the necessary public services to meet the belief needs of farmers,so the folk belief naturally becomes the religious adhesive for the construction of social grass-roots organizations.The ceremony of meeting the Lord is a unique form of expression in village a,which not only creates the power obligation relationship of Local Festival ceremony,but also creates the power and authority before the ceremony.According to the investigation of the author in village a,there has been a unique"meeting for meeting the Lord" since ancient times.It is jointly held by eight villages,and the Festival ceremony at the meeting is called "meeting the Lord".Folk belief makes people gather spontaneously,and forms authority based on the organization and distribution work before the reception.According to the custom,tradition and objective requirements,the specific work in the reception ceremony should be arranged.Therefore,the power group of the reception manager appears.The formal operation of the ceremony can be seen as a process of strengthening authority and competing for resources.Symbolic concrete expressions and behavioral logic in the ceremony are all tools used by the administrative groups to fight for power.The successful completion of the ceremony proves people’s recognition of the power of the steward.After the end of the ceremony in a specific period of time,this kind of authority recognition will still be accompanied by the steward group,which is conducive to becoming a real rural grass-roots governance.Not only that,with the ritual of life,with the sense of rural boundary and collective memory brought by "meeting the Lord",but also the lubricant of rural governance.This paper mainly uses the field research data obtained from the field survey in village a of Shaanxi Province from 2017 to 2019 as the support of the research theory,and collates and obtains more than 10 old people’s oral historical data about "meeting the Lord" and "social fire" in the traditional period.It is a kind of ritual politics with symbolic significance,which is based on the common spiritual beliefs and living habits of the people.In the traditional period,the"ceremony of receiving the Lord" takes folk belief as the main endogenous power,which is different from today’s "ceremony of belief".While discussing the influence of the belief culture network in the traditional period on the legalization of the authority of rural governance,we should also pay attention to its significance for today’s rural governance,clarify the power operation mode of political ceremony,and attach importance to the ceremony in rural governance The new role of authority,combined with legal governance,leads to a new path.