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3.1 Influence of Social Modernization to Long Mu Faith
3.1.1 Influence of Long Mu Faith to Daily Life
With the creation and development of Long Mu Cultural Faith, Long Mu legend has became politicized, historicized and localized during such a long period when it passes from generation to generation, so Long Mu shaped from a legendary personage to a local historical personage, and slipped into our secular life as a colorful goddess. Long Mu cultural faith was widespread in the 20's of the 9th century AD, and more ancient in history than that of the Goddess Matsu of the Sea. And thousands of Long Mu temples of all shapes and sizes stood along Xi River before New China’s liberation, more than 300 in De Qing County alone.
Up to the present, customs, including: touching Long Mu’ bed, drinking holy water, taking incense ashes with water, eating roast suckling pig, freeing carp, stamping Long Mu golden seal, burning incense and joss paper, etc. , remained in the folk.
During the Long Mu birthday's festival, more than a hundred of thousands Long Mu devotees and tourists from Guang Dong and Guang Xi Provinces, Hong Kong, Macao, Hu Nan, Jiang Xi, Fu Jian and Gui Zhou Provinces deluge with the Yue Cheng Long Mu Ancestral Temple. They are offering sacrifices to Long Mu, expressing their wishes of sacrifices to their ancestors, praying for blessing and dispelling the evils. In South China, like the Goddess Matsu of the Sea, the growth in popularity of Long Mu has been dynamic, which performs a miracle.
Long Mu Cultural Faith obtains the current formidable size and influence in South China, for it is deeply in association with Chinese Loong culture and Chinese traditional filial piety ethics, and Long Mu temple fair is a grand occasion, which thought much of by the government and civilians affects every aspect of the society and reflects all kinds of questions existing in the reality in South China and Hong Kong-Macau Region. Nowadays, Long Mu cultural faith is not only a spiritual resource, but also a well-known culture brand with distinct characteristics, which greatly facilitates the development of De Qing’s cultural tourism industry.
The sacrificial rite of Dragon Mother Worship not only abides by the whole procedures, but to a certain degree varies in many ways showing various relations between man and deity, and the diversity of man’s roles and status in reality. As a result of the necessity of life, Dragon Mother Worship is colored with more rationality and thus treated as a convention but not a religion.
The essence of Long Mu faith is carrying forward the virtue of loving all ordinary people, awarding the kindness and publishing the evil and is looking forward a better life through offering sacrifices to Long Mu.

3.1.2 New Features Of Long Mu Faith In Modern Society
The traditional Chinese belief is an expression of Chinese social ideology; it both has relative stability, and contains relative variability and plasticity. Dynasties came and went in the states of civilization, the main tenor of Long Mu cultural faith has went on age by age, but have changed little, the reason is that, for thousands of years, our ancient China was still in feudal agricultural society, which makes the strong-adhesive folk traditions integrate into social production and daily life.
And since the founding of New China, the economic foundation has changed dramatically, accordingly, as the primary ideology, the folk traditions have varied. The 1980s witnessed a great upsurge of the reform, opening-up and modernization drive in China, which deals a blow to the traditional customs of the urban-rural community. In order to adapt the swift motion of living environment, people have changed their ways constantly in material and spiritual life; meanwhile, they have preserved the traditional customs extraordinarily by various kinds of methods.
As a historical phenomenon, folk-custom has two characteristics: one is its mobility: folk-custom belongs to social superstructure, it will change along with  the change of economic foundation, and its new forms would present in every age, some based on new economic foundation, some changed from original ancient under new social conditions; the other is its succession and inheritance: just take Long Mu cultural faith for example, it could not be formed in a age, but accumulated in many ages, and this faith was the memories of  the Qin Dynasty. The faith keeps the complete appearance by disseminations and bibliographies of ancient scholars and officials; similarly, it demonstrates great variability after creating and processing by the people.
Nowadays, the border on Long Mu idolatry is not affected by the explanation of the philosophy of materialism. Long Mu legend became a household word, and Long Mu faith is also filtering into people's minds. In the legend, Long Mu birthday is the May 8th in the lunar calendar, and from the May 1st, there are many Long Mu devotees and tourists from home and abroad deluge with the Yue Cheng Long Mu Ancestral Temple. The scene of the May 8th: huge crowd of people, incense and firecracker sound filled the air. Most of the people coming for different purposes, celebrities, wealthy men, or salaried person, ordinary people, etc., so, there is not surprising that you find officials at different levels visit Long Mu temple. But, of course, the main visitors are the ordinary people, who live in the lower society, meet with more problems and worries, and so they rest more their hope on Long Mu.
What’s the purpose of people to sacrifice to Long Mu?
Fei xiao tong once mention毕业论文http://www.751com.cned about the sacrifices of Chinese to supernatural beings, “We are quite practical when we sacrifice to supernatural beings, we want everything goes smoothly, we wish to avoid calamity, the way we sacrifice are somewhat like that we entertain guests and bribe someone. To us, supernatural beings are power, not ideal; are wealth, not justice.”, which shows that folk-custom highlights utility and application. Indeed, the Chinese folk-custom does not like the religion that seeks such perfect ethics and spiritual realm, it just represents that people take offerings in exchange for actual profits, such as, for wealth, for power, for peace, for posterity, for longevity, for marriage, etc. When the disagreeable life was in question, people would pray to God by make a wish.

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