A Study On The Changes Of Folk Culture In The Background Of Overseas Chinese

There is a saying goes that "the unique features of a local environment always give special characteristics to its inhabitants",therefore,similar geographical environment may usually leads to similar development. However, a change in the mode of life will often make a place both has some common features and particular personality.The majority of the southern Zhejiang province are mountainous and have few plains,which may be treated as a special area,especially in the southwest of Zhejiang province, which generally belong to the mountain hilly culture area. But the people of Qingtian made out a new way, then gradually Qingtian county became a "cultural enclave",which I name "overseas hometown enclave."The history of Overseas Chinese,which has more than 100 years,making the village different from the other villages of the southwest of Zhejiang province. First of all, the village's infrastructure construction is quite perfect, its livability is enviable. Long xian village's new housing is the variants of the former type which was widely popular in the area of the southwest Zhejiang province, from these smart changes it can be seen that the village's family structure belongs to a typical "federal family." The contrast between a large sum of funds which flooded from overseas and the "population loss" have caused a great change in the area of the living custom of Long xian village.Similarly, due to many of the villagers closely related to “life etiquette" left the village to go overseas, so that the village's birth ceremony has been extremely weakened. As for the wedding, in recent decades, or even known as "gone" for attributive. As the traditional sense of the "adult ceremony" has already no longer exist, yet the villagers have taken working abroad as an "adult ceremony",the ones who once paid off the cost of spending abroad are usually considered completing the "adult ceremony." In addition,due to the richness and the psychological compensation of overseas Chinese,the funeral ceremonies of Long xian village are extremely ceremoniously, and they are the most lively things in the daily life.The large number of young adults' going abroad led to great changes in social structure of the village,and then along with the decline of the functions of the Ancestral hall. As a result of the popularity of going abroad, the remittances from overseas have become the village's most important source of livelihood, the traditional folk beliefs which are closely related to the agricultural era gradually lost the charisma,the sacredness of the traditional temples has been weakened, so comes the of faith diversion, the main direction of which tends to Christianity,which is closely related to the daily life of Western countries, while at the same time,to a certain extent, Jesus faith has played a role of the"reconstruction of community".In short, the hometown of overseas Chinese is the most prominent"social context" of Long xian village , in the context of the hometown of overseas Chinese,the folk culture of Long Xian village has a much larger changes than the former similar villages.