She Ethnic Minority Group Ancestor Worship And Village Order Construction

Zhangxi township in Dongyuan county of Guangdong province is a Shetown.It located in Heyuan city, north. Their ancestors thrived here in the Minghongwu period,Every April9th lunar month is the traditional nationalholiday.Then, She people please out of the blue general ghost,Paradevillage,exorcism fortune for the Blue’s sons.It is the concentration of minoritypeople’s worship of ancestry. The article is an ethnography that is on the basis of thefieldwork of belief in blue village of Zhangxi township.It document the ancestorworship ceremony,to explore the new space-time background,the traditional ethnicvillage faith is how to make adjustment and the role of in the village and village ordercultural construction.The full text consists of five chapters: the first chapter isintroduction,introduced the selected topic reason, research methods and literaturereview.The second is the basic condition of the Blue village.The theme of the thirdchapter around the village ancestors faith the village family tree,a god, ancestral hall,etc.,fully displaying the relationship between the village belief of clan and villagelife.The fourth chapter is the focus of this article,on the traditional folk blue general,under the Blue village ceremony made meticulous deep draw,from the powerstructure of the ceremony and to please god,Tours, send all the process,comprehensive real reproduce the original appearance of the ancestors.The last part isabout the traditional ancestor worship the analysis of the performance form in thevillage construction,and the elements of this cultural phenomenon since the new erainto which some mutation and adaptation of thought.Blue general ceremony as a minority peoples’s memory of ancestors,praying atraditional way to the future,some functions in lost,and some new functions addedin,continues to play a historical memory in villages in order to construct the enormousfunction, psychological comfort and village integration. And the new background oftime space,the ancestors legend and the ancestor-worship celebration gradually lost itsmystique,present a family sign of god to villages in transition, the clan culture as a kind of local resources by the development and management, to create a localeconomic interests. In matters of ancestors worship, the village elite holds the maindiscourse power, giving play to the role of the chiefs of the traditional family, for thewhole family,village to create the welfare space as large as possible, at the same time,realize the maximization of individual interests, also for the construction of villageorder plays an important role.In this article, the main study way are field works and literature researching. Inaddition, it draws on anthropology, sociology, history, geography, archaeology andmany researching methods of other related subjects.