A Study On The Zhang People's 'Women's Sun Mountain Worship' In Shangguo Village

Women's Sun Mountain worship in Shangguo village contains Zhuang women's worship and other religious factors,but it is more manifest as a folk festival,especially after the declaration of the intangible cultural heritage project.The change and development of its form and content make it become a cultural heritage project bearing ethnic traditional culture,with weakening quality of religion and more folklorization,or even toolization.At the same time,under the influence of the social development,it,as a kind of cultural form,not only needs to keep pace with the modernization,but also carries on the cultural reconstruction of itself.In this regard,this article analizes these activities from the perspective of Religious Anthropology.With the development of society in the process of the the forces of "need",the change of its iatality and influence is inevitable,with its 'full of vitality' by blending into the market economy,cosmetic appearance in the display of ethnic culture,and blindly follow-ups of secular society and deeper separation of its original soil.This paper interprets the activity from the perspective of Religious Studies.Firstly,analyze its generation from the perspective of its origin of myth and ritual process,so as to understand the function of religious connotation and the meanings and values for the local Zhuang People.Secondly,illustrating a series of changes caused by government intervention and confirming its changed facts by factural cultural reconstruction.Finally,analyse the changes of the causes of the sun mountain worship from two aspects of society and religion,that is under the economic development rural urbanization provides a material basis for the change,and the integration of the multi factors of socialization of religion make the change to be secularization and toolization,what's more,the mode of the protection of intangible cultural heritage leads it to be more folklorization.