The Neighborhood Research Of Houchang Village

There are four Life Rites. There are Birth Ceremony,Adult Ceremony,Wedding Ceremony,Funeral Ceremony。In which, Funeral Ceremony is The Most Important Rite of passage. Not only Because It is The Rite of passage from yang to Underworld In human life, Entrusted with grief of Future generations to the dead, but also the standard of whether Filial piety in the village of houchang.Therefore, the funeral gets the highest degree of attention in rural areas of life ceremony. The importance can be seen from its extent and number of participants. Because of the large number of participants, the funeral ceremony is not any one family can manage alone. To satisfactorily complete the course of the funeral ceremony of all the ceremony and reception work, the help of old man who must have specialized knowledge about guiding the funeral is necessary, the villagers need to have leadership on the funeral ceremony of process organization, coordination, larger number of labor force and even items of mutual aid is also very important. Therefore, the villagers help, the strength of the neighborhood is very important, funeral Ceremony can make the entire village of people united for a common purpose and efforts, through the process of funeral ceremony, you can visually see the rural neighborhood situation in the village, it is also a very good starting point to research rural neighborhood.In order to carry out the in-depth analysis, this paper takes the field survey and literature combining as the research methods, often after the village as the object of analysis of field research. This article use the main theme to the method of combining with the class as research perspective. The whole article is divided into six chapters.ChapterⅠ:The natural and social characteristics about the village of houchang. Certain customs, local customs is always based upon specific. This section describes each village after the regular natural and cultural features. After a detailed description of the regular village population, land, crops, family name, clan and other aspects. ChapterⅡ:The process analysis of the funeral ceremony about the village of houchang. This chapter described in detail of the post-funeral ceremony for the entire process of, focused especially on the description of the process throughout the funeral rites funeral professionals in the role play the coordinating role of village leaders, and in order to successfully run the funeral ceremony, the neighborhood of human, material and financial resources, etc. to help each other.ChapterⅢ:The characteristics of neighborhood in the Village. Separately to analyze the characteristics of the neighborhood, it is from the regional, emotion, variability, an informal description as the aspects. Then, it leads to the meaning of neighborhood.ChapterⅣ:The category of the neighborhood in the Village. According to funeral rituals and ceremonies, the village after the regular neighborhood is divided into:economic aid, labor assistance, moral support, and several other areas, and it will use the funeral rites to describe the embodiment of the process.ChapterⅤ:The difference of the Village neighborhood. Neighborhood is different. This chapter will use rituals of the funeral for example, analyzes people who have different kinship distance, geographic distance will have different performance in the neighborhood, and analysis people with different sex in neighborhood play different roles.ChapterⅥ:The functional analysis of Village neighborhood. This chapter analyzed the functional of meeting the demand of production, life, emotions and so on, big case help, close contact, resolve disputes, moral education and so on. ChapterⅦ:The developing trends and the reasons of the neighborhood in the contemporary. It Pointed out that the developing trends of the neighborhood is "local enhancement, the overall weakening" in the contemporary. At the same time, we analyzed the reasons of the developing trends about the neighborhood.