Anthropological Thinking Of Anyang Bridge Temple Fair

Anyang Bridge temple meeting of Anyang, Henan Province is the point for field work research, it also the basement of this thesis. Though participant observation and deep interviews, the paper will show how traditional meeting adapt to changing environment. More specifically, how the meeting react in different changes about culture, economy and politic.Common brief can be seen as the cultural nuclear of temple meeting. In the past years, it shown as a form of Anyang Bridge folk and these temples around village, people here burnt incenses, crossed Anyang Bridge, went for a walk in spring. All in order to keep health pray good luck. After contacting with great tradition, the elements of superstition, such as bridge and temple, become a symbolic sign. While common belief also the collective memory provides psychological comfort and satisfy spiritual needs.Marketization and modernization influence economic behaviors. Market in temple meeting, stimulate the local consumption and increase income of people. No entrance ticket can provide free space of turnover; symbolize stall cost supple participants a strong will. Buyers want to earn more money, some artists emerge traditional handicraft, and civilians get a chance to visit relatives and friends. Interaction between culture and economy promote this temple meeting keep moving forward.State presence brings temple meeting a different feature which meeting of village gradually become the city one. State role here not only a governor, try to supervise the meeting replace of folk head of meeting in older days. Also commandeer meeting from cultural preservation to cultural industry development. In a word, State presence is the running order of temple meeting in the changing background.It can conclude that Anyang Bridge temple meeting play an aggregator role which it finds a way to keep balance between individual and community, city and village, tradition and modernity, culture and economy.