Study On The Inheritance Of Men’s Day Custom

"Men’s day" in the history of our country is called a "Ren Sheng Day","Ren Chen","Ling Chen", etc., and it is a traditional festivals that has a long history of thousands years."Men’s day",which comes at the7th In the first month of the year, is the important festivals in the han nationality area in the Chinese traditional society The contents and forms of "Men’s day" are various, like wearing a "Sheng", decorations Wear on the head; eat dish soup; climbing; rid ghost bird. That are all important customs of "Men’s day"."Men’s Day" has a close connection of the reproduction worship life, and most of its section vulgar content on the subject.The evolution of "Men’s day" had go through three development stage, the main forming stage in Wei-Jin periods, the development in the tang dynasty and the prosperous period in song dynasty,and it’s excessive development trend present as from local to national, as well as the national to local. The festival vulgar content differentiation is serious, regional. And the sacrifice sexual content of the festival decreases, entertaining enhance. From the regional distribution point of view,"Men’s day" has broad range in China’s history, north to Liaodong region, south to Guangdong area, east to Taiwan and the west to the Yunnan-Guizhou region where has legacy "Men’s day" section. On the national distribution of it,"Men’s day" section of the main body crowd are the Han nationality, even in areas gathered ethnic minority. after the song dynasty, the "Men’s day" began to decline,quickly out of the central plains region, its status as an important festival of the Han nationality began to shake.There are many reasons for "Men’s day" depression, the effect of external factors as well as internal factors. In terms of external factors, political is the main reason for the rise and fall of "Men’s day"; In terms of internal factors, the fusion between holiday and festival,and the shift between holiday and folk beliefs are the important causes.From the experience on the rise and fall of "Men’s day" explore the inheritance of traditional festivals in modern society.The rise and fall evolution of "Men’s day" make us fully realize the importance of government involvement and the irreversibility of the development trend of tradition festival customs on secularization and entertaining which lead to the decline of traditional festivals in the modern society. It is imperative that the government timely intervene in the situation that original holiday tradition is broken, and new holiday inheritance order has not been formed.Using the general theory of the folklore and philology, this paper analysis customs to the inheritance of "Men’s day".By combing its historical development and regional distribution, explore the development and regional distribution characteristics of the "Men’s day" customs in different historical stages, and thus further to analyze and interpret its cultural connotation and historical reason of its depression. Through the study of individual cases about the inheritance of "Men’s day" customs, the author try to search history characteristics and laws of the traditional festival, and seek a way out to the inheritance of traditional festivals in modern society.