Journal of Chuxiong Normal University ›› 2022, Vol. 37 ›› Issue (2): 34-42.

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Ritual, Ceremony and Construction of Village Community- Taking as Example the Crop Sacrifice of the Bulang People of Songgui Village, Yongde County

ZI Zhiyue1, HUANG Kai2   

  1. 1. School of Sociology, Yunnan Minzu University, Kunming, Yunnan Province 650504;
    2. Institute of Ethnic Studies (School of Ethnology and History), Yunnan Minzu University, Kunming, Yunnan Province 650504
  • Received:2022-01-05 Online:2022-04-26 Published:2022-04-26

Abstract: The God of Crops is the protector of the Bulang people of Songgui Village, Yongde County and the ceremony of offering sacrifice to the God is an important folk event of belief of the local people. On the one hand, such belief and ceremony serve to satisfy the psychological wish of the local people for security and happiness, standardize local social order, disseminate the idea of harmony between man and nature, promote inheritance of the traditional Bulang culture, and, on the other hand, serve as an important vehicle to strengthen the sense of village community and the spiritual will for village governance and development of the sense of the Chinese national community.

Key words: Songgui Village, the Bulang people, crop sacrifice, ritual, ceremony, village community

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