Seeing The Socialization Of Buddhism In The Song Dynasty From The Evolution Of The Bon Festival

"filial piety" is the most important part in Chinese culture.In other words, people should treat their parents with filial piety and worship ancestors.The fusion of Buddhism and filial piety is a symbol of socialization and localization.Chinese people usually hold a memorial ceremony for dead ancestor called The Ghost festival on July 15 every year,.In fact, it is under the influence of Buddhist thought,with Buddhism factors hanging over too.Besides,it changes with the times change.Previous studies, mostly concentrated in Obon sources and characteristics of the functional level,There is little to discuss this festival from the perspective of social history.Though (US) Taishi Wen’s monograph "Ghost Festival - Chinese medieval faith and life," makes up for the missing,it mainly focuses on medieval times and involves less after Tang.This article mainly analyzes evolution of Obon and Buddhist socialization from social history horizon of the Tang-Song transformation.First I summarize the differences between Tang and Song Festival:Obon in Tang Dynasty is officially organized and leading, while Obon in Song is mainly reflected in people’s spontaneity and the Folk Festival.Futher, I mainly analyzes Folk of Obon in Song on a geographical scale,the Southern Song Dynasty Lin’an government Ghost Festival folk into fully representative.In many other places, the Ghost Festival also replaced Obon, become a generic term for the half in July, indicating that the Folk is extensive.Besides,I analyzes Obon from the internal social class of Song Dynasty. The conclusion is that Song Dynasty is deeply influenced by literati.Last, I discuss the reasons for Buddhism socialization and localization mainly from Obon Firstiy, the rise of new Zen and Pure Land Buddhism make it more easily accepted by ordinary people. Secondly,Buddhism is blend with Confucianism filial piety concept,folk beliefs and local Taoism,which makes Buddhism organically penetrate into the social life of Song, subtly affecting the entire society.