A Deep Research On The Association Of Pilgrims In The Wangwu Mountain Areas

The folk belief is the centre of the folk culture; which has great in fluence on the folkways customs as well as the modes of thinking ,ways of living, social relations and the production practice of the grass-root people. In various areas of the entire society. It plays outstanding roles in the shaping of the characters of the chinese rationality. The research on the folk beliefs as well as their ceremonial and symbol can provide us with a foundation of the survey on the Chinese social culture, and has great significance to the understanding of the particularity of the chinese traditional social culture.A research is given to one kind of the folk belief organizations—the functional cultural theory as an involving participational observation. It's purpose is to make know the folk association of pilgrims in Wangwu mountain areas to the public, and provide a valuable case to the study on the folk belief organization by looking in to the basic forms of the Chinese folk belief organization. with the systematical illustration of the inner the ceremony to offer incense and the analysis to the social functions such groups.The paper mainly consists of the preface and the main body.The preface falls into three parts: the brief introduction to the folk beliefs, the present situation of the study on it, and the content and the methodology of the paper.The main body is composed of three parts. The first part concerns a brief introduction to Wangwu mountain which is mainly about the nature geography history and the present condition of it.The second part involves the research on the folk association of pilgrims in the Wangwu mountain areas, which deals with the acceptance membership aims and the activities of the group.