The Investigation Research Of YanTai Yu Deng Festival’s Sacrifice Sea Customs Centered On Ritual And Cultural Change

Yu Deng Festival is an annual lunar January thirteen and fourteen coastal fishermen sacrifice Poseidon in Yantai, the traditional fishing holiday blessing to send Yudeng. Yu Deng Festival as a typical representative of fishing culture,carrying the fishermen cultural psychology and customs.Since the day from the Ming Dynasty the inheritance and development of Yu Deng Festival has been more than300years.Today Yu Deng Festival has become the famous marine fishing festival celebration, but the overall study of Yu Deng Festival has lagged behind.Based on the interpretive anthropology and cultural change theory, Inspect festival changes and reasons on the Yu Deng Festival. The following studys were conducted based on the field work:First, In this paper, the main festival on the performance analysis of Yu Deng Festival. Different festivals and customs comparative analysis of Yu Deng Festival. In order to understand the differences between different regions are popular fishing lamp.To compare the advantages and disadvantages of different Festival’s customs.Second, To explore areas of the folk belief of the Yu Deng Festival to know that the sea god worship is to support the main spirit of the development of Yu Deng Festival.Third, Because of the economic impact of changing the production mode, reduces the risk of marine operations factors,Yu Deng Festival sea customs have been series of changes. Holiday holy reduced, Yu Deng Festival vulgar activity tends to be entertainment and secularization. A series changes of the festival customs and functions the development of festival from single to comprehensive. Investigation on changes and reasons of the Yu Deng Festival that we can see festival in complex environment.Fouth, Focus on the traditional marine fishing festival in the impact of modernization in the future how to continue. Prospects for the future development of Yu Deng Festival should be maintained to protect cultural diversity principle, to promote this true,protect the Yu Deng Festival, send the lamp festival culture.