Wine And Everyday Life In The Vinery

What is the Catholic group like after 100 years' existing in Cizhong,a small Tibetan village in northwestern Yunnan province,China? This article is based on a long-term field work in this village with massive participant observation in village affairs and amounts of interviews.This multi-ethnic village has a duality of Catholicism and Tibetan Buddhism.This article aims to provide perceptions of how Catholic identity is passed on by generation with their collective bodies;and how Catholic values are fused into the village ethics.Grape and wine are used as initial clues in the argument,which are both evidently connected with French missionaries and modern market.The historical context and current context are linked by these clues and so are the morality and ethics issues.Moreover,these clues reveal the mechanism behind the revival of Catholicism in Cizhong after 1980 s and the conversion institution in compromise with the Tibetan Buddhism group.The main five chapters are separated into two parts.The introduction of grapes when missionaries came to this area has changed the local notions of lands and the nature itself ever since.Special techniques to cultivate grapes and make wine have been developed.Catholicism and wine are reproduced into symbols for the market need.And the final chapter carries the discussion to other ethnic fields rather than wine.It demonstrates how various values that derives from Catholicism are intentionally chosen to be parts of consensus and have become the practical standards for both Catholic and Buddhist villagers.When consensus emerges from multiple values,the whole village has gain an Identity.This identity is considered as the “Tibetan” identity by villagers.Within the village,the authenticity of this “Tibetan” identity is undoubtable.However,when outside the village,this identity is in great tension.In solution,the Catholics seek to emphasize their ethnic identity as Tibetan rather than Catholic.The consensus village identity has managed to achieve beyond single ethnic identity or religious one.Therefore,this article takes the Tibetan Buddhist group in Cizhong as a Tibetan context when talking about Catholicism.The cultural characteristics of Catholicism interact with the local society and finally contribute to the multiple existence of Catholicism itself as a global religion.The uniqueness of Catholicism in Cizhong has provided perceptions of its complicated ethnic geographic locations in the boundary between Tibetan and Han.In conclusion,tecniques as the media in reaction between human beings and the surrending world,have been constantly shaping the individual body as well as the collective one.During the shaping,the ideologies behind techniques encounter the original concepts from the local while people make accounts of them.In the particluar tibetan village of Cizhong,the tecniques of clutivating grapes,making wine and mass rituals have shaped the religious body ever since the Catholicism emerged.This body becomes the basis of intercation between the Catholic groups and others,in spite of the collective identity.In the actions of this religious body,both Catholic and Tibetan Buddhist villagers encounters the catholic values.They form mutual understandings durning repeating encounters and establish the boundary between two religions.The local ethics intergrates the catholic values and are expressed as ethnic identity during the nationalization after 1949.