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This article is an ethnography of a village group Dragon Boat Festival. Field located at the junction of Xinhua County, Hunan Province, Yu's home town-owned river and ocean Jiang. I based on master the basic theories and methods of anthropology, through research, trying to understand the meaning behind Dragon Boat Festival. Also, can provide a wider range of Comparative Study of thick material. Mainly anthropological fieldwork research methods, literature studies. Author during the Dragon Boat Festival in 2008, at a local trial investigation, and before and after the Dragon Boat Festival in 2009 conducted a survey of more than a month in the local participation in some activities of the Dragon Boat Festival, the following water baptism, Dragon, thanks to the pier end midnight worship, conduct interviews, and the villagers to understand their feelings for the Dragon Boat Festival. In the same time, I also see the relevant literature, such as local history, genealogy, and the hope to deepen holistic grasp of the local culture. I described in the text of the main activities of the locals during the Dragon Boat Festival, from God, and the feast God to allay analysis behind the cultural significance of this structural model. The Dragon Boat Festival is the public activities of the local villages, different people have different expression in this activity in the whole event. Young people are the main body in the Dragon Boat Festival Boat Race, I proceed from the point of view of the life cycle, by way of comparison, found that young people interested in the Dragon Boat Festival is a \For women, the Dragon Boat Festival activities, women subtly eased some of the contradictions within the family, and on the midnight of worship in the end, the expression of the public voice, the Dragon Boat Festival is a way for women's participation in public affairs . And seniors guiding the whole process of the Dragon Boat Festival activities, they have gained the respect of the entire village because of the knowledge on the etiquette, and, on the festival, they also search for the meaning of life. In addition, starting from a single individual, can also be found Dragon Boat Festival is a way for people into the village community. Human relations is a very important rule of local life, the Dragon Boat Festival ceremony structure also reflects the rules of human relations. Departure from the local Taoist religious system, found behind the Dragon Boat Festival Boat Race also explain the dimensions of the religious factor. The entire Dragon Boat Festival, people express different interpretation of dimensions. In addition, I also found in the survey, the Organization of the Dragon Boat Festival activities, different villages have different organizations, different organizations, it is precisely a shift from people in different periods of self-identity.
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