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The Revived Ceremony--The Ethnography of the Memorial Ceremony for Confucius in an Old Village

Author: LiangHu
Tutor: YangHui
School: Yunnan University
Course: Anthropology
Keywords: Ceremony Confucius Village Tourism Development Connaught Deng
CLC: K28
Type: Master's thesis
Year: 2010
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Abstract

Ceremony, is a community of traditional culture, historical context and strengthen the external manifestations, inheritance means. In the history of evolving, some rituals because of lost its original function and meaning, and gradually decline, and stop the deduction. However, in today's tourism development under the background of many traditional ceremonies again under the combined effect of various factors to be re-excavated from memory, returned to community life. This can be said to be a common and important social and cultural phenomenon. This paper will promise Deng village as a case study, from an anthropological perspective chronicles the traditional village Connaught Deng Confucius ceremony held in the interrupt again after six years of restoration of the whole process, by tracing his honor ceremony at the Connaught Deng traditional communities organizing background, operation mode, functional status, and interrupt organized reason to understand the history and tradition of the ceremony in the community is an important symbolic significance. Meanwhile, based on fieldwork, participant observation Confucius ceremony interrupted six years later to regain the background, processes, analyzes ceremony to restore the deeper meaning, as an example of its role in social development and with the social development changes occur. In modern tourism development, the ceremony as an endogenous how traditional cultural force in the various factors to be driven recovery and development, whether the ritual after recovery also has original symbolism and ritual to restore and Tourism the development of interactive relationship are trying to inquire about the contents of this article. In traditional societies promise Deng to salt as the economic foundation of Confucianism, the imperial examination system as a cultural, social infrastructure and continuation of established Confucius ceremony, for the community has important symbolic significance and pivotal position. In social change among the economic collapse of the salt, and the corresponding cultural and social infrastructure has also changed the traditional ceremony hosted in his honor all the infrastructure are gradually disappeared, therefore, the ceremony also will decline and eventually stopped organized. In the broader context of tourism development, and accompanied by a series of heritage conservation and restoration work, Novo Deng has also been Confucius ceremony, including local government, local elites and community residents, including the multi-support, and in the interrupt six years later was re-reproducibility. However, after the ritual reproduction, by relying on the foundation of the great changes occurred in government funding as an economic base to local elites of cultural self-consciousness as a cultural basis for community residents passion for tourism development as a social foundation . In such circumstances, the meaning and significance of the ceremony also changed. By presenting these facts, the author emphasizes the ceremony as a local culture and historical memory of the carrier, historical and cultural context can make communities more clear and rich, which is now also required to develop tourism. Confucius traditional rituals resurrection, so that we see the development of an endogenous tourism strength recovery and rise through the traditional ritual repetition, to wake the cultural consciousness of community residents, active participation in the restoration of traditional culture and protection among the tourism industry will be able to make to the cause of national culture and get a virtuous circle.

The Revived Ceremony--The Ethnography of the Memorial Ceremony for Confucius in an Old Village

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