The Embodiment Of The Gods And The Construction Of The Life Order Of The Villagers

Folk religion and rituals in the study of folk beliefs have always been the focus of scholars.In recent years,more and more attention has been paid to the study of "things" in faith.Taking Neiqiu Shenma as the main research object,this paper investigates the folk religion activities of the villagers in Neiqiu.In the practice of faith,on the one hand,from the perspective of belief concept and behavior,Shenma as a spiritual medium,not only guarantees the complete presentation of ritual by faith practitioners,but also has many influences on the psychology of villagers.On the other hand,people usually divide belief behavior into two categories,one is individual worship behavior,the other is collective worship behavior with organizational characteristics.This paper tries to discuss how concrete gods,as a symbol,play a role in individual worship behavior,so as to affect the life order of villagers.The Shenma is posted in the homes,which is the protection of the villagers,and Shenma is the construction of the villagers’ space and time order.As a symbolic medium,divine Shenma connects people with gods.At the same time,as a kind of "commodity" circulating in the market,Shenma also connects producers and consumers to build the relationship between production and consumption.They form the order of life of the villagers together.This paper is mainly divided into three parts: the first part explains the background of the Neiqiu Shenma;the second part includes chapter two and chapter three,mainly thinking about the construction of the life order by the divine code from the dimension of "concept";this part mainly discusses from two perspectives,analyzing the corresponding positions of the Neiqiu Shenma in the household space from the perspective of space,so that the household space forms layers of protective net.This protective net is not only the transition zone of the villagers "from the outside in" and "from the inside out",but also completes the transformation of the subject and object from raw to ripe and from ripe to raw in the process of transition.In essence,this is to use Shenma to build the order of the villagers’ living space.Then,from the perspective of time,it analyzes the role of Shenma in villagers’ daily time.In their opinion,this time is recyclable,and God code also plays a role in the concept of non-recyclable time,and this time will not appear repeatedly in people’s life.From these two aspects,this paper discusses the time order in villagers’ life constructed by Shenma.The third part includes chapter four and chapter five,which mainly considers the influence of Shenma in folk belief practice from the perspective of "behavior".As a kind of spiritual media,Shenma makes people and God interact with each other and influence each other.Shenma produces a kind of "soft control" on villagers,regulate their behavior,and form a kind of cultural logic with local characteristics.In addition,the paper analyzes the influence of the demand of the villagers on the production and consumption of the divine code.The relationship between production and consumption connected by the Neiqiu Shenma is also an important reason for the continuity of the divine code,which is an important role played by the divine symbol in folk belief activities.