A Study on Social-Cultural Faith Interaction in South China 第5页In our society, Long Mu Cultural Faith is widespread to Hong Kong and Macao and other area. The local government and some Long Mu Faith’s organizations hold some ceremonial activities to strengthen the social unity, expand the social relations, maintain the social sentiment, and promote the social economy union with everywhere Chinese people.
2.2.3Amusement
The folk custom activities could enliven cultural life, increase pleasures and build positive sentiments of the residents.
In the real life, Long Mu Faith’s activities have a strong atmosphere of entertainment, even in the sacrificial rite. Temple fair is a combination of behavior’s and sentiment’s culture, including sacrificial rites, theatrical performances, local foods, commercial occasions, folklores, costumes, tourism projects, folk toys, handicrafts, etc. As was mentioned above, local people would regularly hold sacrificial rites that are consecrated to the memory of Long Mu. There are various sorts of tour souvenirs for sale in selling departments, such as Long Mu protective talisman, Long Mu protective card, Long Mu key buckles, etc.
Relying on Long Mu Cultural Faith, these tour commodities emerged as temple fair’s need. And other competitive activities like Loong-Boat Race, Loong Dance Race, etc., which harmonize perfectly with methods and actions that we are in pursuit of peace, well-being, and regular, joyous, and lively life. Therefore, these traditional customs are passed down today. And we must not ignore the tide of various kinds of folk dramas and oral literatures that stem from Long Mu Cultural Faith. The amusement service capacity of Long Mu Cultural Faith is also well matched with people’s aesthetic consciousness, which cultivate people initial esthetic sense and aesthetic consciousness, and it is frequent filled with positive, upward spirit and becomes the South China people's unique entertainment form.
2.2.4Practicability
From the point of view of the practicability service capacity, naissance and succession of folk custom, folk custom is associated with its utility value, so do Long Mu Cultural Faith. It’s undeniable that Long Mu Faith custom exist many unscientific thoughts; even it has ignorant and superstitious contents, which, however, are being considered to be practical significance among the local folk, in other words, in many general respects, the act of Long Mu cultural faith custom is because people want to have a delight, healthy and prosperous life. Long Mu Cultural Faith acted as an unconscious historical production in its formative period. But it was gradually penetrated the consciousness when it have been developed.
Actually, the main purpose of Long Mu Cultural Faith lies in that people want take advantage from folk custom for their productive work and daily life. Therefore, we can conclude that Long Mu Cultural Faith activity is a purposive action that provides a positive ideology basis for inheritance and development of a series of faith customs.
2.2.5History Research
Taken as a whole, folk custom is a cultural creation and accumulation of history. And the accumulation is generally characterized by obvious hierarchy. Folk custom is also a living social fossil which records a nation’s development history, represents discursive shifts and laws of inheritance and development. In academic circles and social sciences researches, cultural anthropology, science of religion, sociology, folklore, folk literature, etc., which are carrying out thorough studies of folk custom as traditional culture and its social service capacity from different aspects, which, correspondingly, are facilitating academic prosperity and social sciences research further development.
Many ancient books had detailed and colorful descriptions about Long Mu life experience, geographical environment, historical background and lifestyle and customs, especially the tales about she and her five sons, which are valuable in studying culture of the ancient Hundred Yue tribes. From any kinds of Long Mu legends, we can understand certain significances that the relationship between human and object, the context of time and space, the motivation, intention, feeling, and value of human.
According to historical documents, Long Mu slept in a big wooden tray and carried by the current from the upper reaches of Xi River to Yue Cheng. Long Mu legend is not the creation myth and mythos of a survivor of a flood disaster, the big wooden tray she sat is not the Chinese Noah's Ark, she just is an abandoned child, therefore, and Long Mu legend is relying on the history to a certain extent. From the content that Long Mu hasn’t husband but gets five sons through picking an egg of fives Loongs, we could conclude that the legend is influenced by tele-fertility myth but is not a typical kind. Long Mu also has a nursing father; hence we could make sense that Long Mu legend is a product of a transition period that the matriarchal turned to the patriarchy.
As a clan leader, Long Mu leaded her tribe emigrate to Guang Dong and herded sheep and deer along Xi River. The legend said, Long Mu broke some of deer’s legs for they ruined crops, so there existed tripodia deer in Yue Cheng. And from she could fed domestic animals and weaved flax, we could prove that the period Long Mu lived in had moved from fishing and hunting age to agrarian society. Through analyzing these phenomena, we could probe into the history of cultural development of Hundred Yue tribes. In real life, people always think of folk customs as “history textbooks”, and make a considerable effort to pass on folk customs to their posterity by some ways or ceremonies, which so as to let them keep ancestor’s creations and merits in mind. Long Mu legend is so well known and so highly honored in locality.
As the traditional culture, Long Mu Cultural Faith has extremely significant research value and promotes our academic prosperity, cultural diversity, and social sciences’ development. And also as a local petty tradition of original civilization and lower class, Long Mu cultural faith has special expressive qualities when compared with official grand tradition, mainstream culture and modern civilization in the course of interaction. Therefore, we not only can understand the local original civilization, the traditional culture, the social situation and real thinking and feeling of persons concerned, but maybe confirm some historical facts, and supple a deficiency of historical documents when we make an intensive study of Long Mu cultural faith.
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