Ritual: Study Of Symbol And Social Construction

The social structure of rural china country is transiting from the tradition nal to modern style. As one of the important social style in china, it’s changing appeals great attention by the sociologists. The rite of life in country is one of common cultural form in human beings. Funeral ceremony is an important rite of life, it also is the outward manifestation system of religion belief, structure of the social relationship, and the order of social value. There contains many kinds of behaviors, tools, and relationship in the process of funeral ceremony, and the interactive among the actor who implement the ceremony deliver the effect of social constraints. The actor can also get the empirical realization schema of society by means of the funeral ceremony.The symbol of language and tool which support the evolution of the ceremony appearance, and the symbol obtain its further meaning by the action of interaction. The religion cause is the outside driving force which push the symbol of funeral ceremony ahead, and it’s edification contains two diversions:first, it transmit the function of eliminating conflicts, consolidate the relationship of the community and maintain the order of the inter-group; second, on the diversion of culture, the symbol affect the process of obtaining knowledge of individual. On the while, the individual knowledge can put an effect on the construction between individuals, individual and the community. And the social construction is realized in the ceremony field by "gift", and the construction is the process of interactive who use the symbols. The symbol of funeral ceremony and the construction of T country represent the logic of the practical daily-life in the country and the non-structural knowledge which stay deep in the ideology. We can appreciate the deep essence of the ceremony by reappearing the things in T country, and this can offer the theoretical and practical element for us to study the transition of social structure in rural.