A Exposition About The Historical Representation And The Cultural Implication Of The Ghost Wedding

The Ghost wedding is a kind of special folk custom, which is stem from the shells period and up to now in parts of our country still exists. In thousands of years of evolution and social development, different historical periods, different geographical environment, the Ghost wedding has different forms in the ceremony and the respect such as type. but its fundamental character that marriage nature and also funeral nature is never changed. Marriage is the foundation of the family and the funeral is the end-result of life. The reason why that the Ghost wedding as a special form of marriage and funeral is still exist after thousands years is that the custom always has strong cultural vitality. It is fit for the generations of people’s cognitive to life, religion and social psychology. The Ghost wedding become people’s cultural bond to comfort the heart, transformation identity and seek balance. The cultural custom’s social function make it has long history and ceaselessly.In recent years, whenever the ghost wedding cause malignant cases and was reported on the newspaper, it is often bring about a discussion about "forbidden" ghost marriage or not. However, the ghost wedding as an important Chinese traditional custom culture, it is people’s generation handed social habits. To some extent, the ghost marriage reflects people’s spiritual life, so custom culture is not a simple question to“ban” or “no prohibition”. In author’s view, for the generation of a cultural phenomenon and popular, the first we should do is to figure out the ghost wedding’s historical locus and its characteristics, so analyzes its social reasons of existence and prevailing, thus make clear that its social function. In order beteer to provide the basis for people to define and view the ghost wedding.I use literature study as basis and use comparative study as the auxiliary, combined with the characteristics of modern and contemporary ghost weddings to study our ghost wedding custom’s historical evolution, ceremony and its limitless’ reason. The article structure has three parts and six chapters in total. The first part is the introduction of the article and it is mainly narrates the article’s selected topic reason and the meaning, the article’s research contents, ideas and methods as well as the predecessors’ research results. The second part is the text of the article and also is the main part of my article. It is includes five chapters and respectively define the ghost wedding and its historical development and evolution, its ceremony and type, its prevails in all of the dynasties’ reasons as well as the ghost wedding’s differents between north and south area and its cross-cultural comparison between China and Japan. The third part is the conclusion part of my article, mainly a summary overview based on the previous two parts and every chapters.