RESEARCH 

Here is the link of the paper I have selected.

Folk Religion in Contemporary China- Fanggang Yang, Anning Hu

The journal in this link gives many very attractive research topics and reference materials. Although most of these materials cannot be found on the Internet, it still reveals to me a structure for studying Chinese folk beliefs. This kind of research is based on structuralism, and it is not difficult to see the author’s reference to Levi Strauss ‘research methods. It clearly lists all the time lines and wider knowledge about Chinese folk beliefs, filling in the blank of materials in my research field.

Folk belief is a sensitive and controversial topic in today’s China, and the concept of folk belief itself is also very uncertain. When I try to talk about it, I can only see it as a mixture of historical religious fragments and folk culture. Yang and Hu give us a great deal of material to try to explain the place of folk faith in Chinese society and Chinese history.

After reading the whole journal, I found the inseparable relationship between Chinese folk beliefs and rural areas. The countryside is the foundation of farming culture. In China, a country composed of farmers, all problems can be regarded as rural problems. The flow of population or the change of power are accompanied by the soil under the feet of these hard-working farmers. For thousands of years there have been foreign religion into the land of China, from the buddhist, zoroastrianism to Islam, Christianity, the religious carrying their symbols into the cities in China, and then disappear in the political movement, and their tentacles spread to the country with strong Chinese living habits and moral mix breed the magical folk beliefs. From the ancient White Lotus Religion, the Taiping Heaven to the modern day sectarian.

However, for my research and works this time, I prefer to use a post-structuralist research method. I will give up and object to try to form a text that can interpret everything, and at the same time bring myself and all users into countless plays that I have designed, and no one can get the final answer from my path.

The Chinese people are going through the craziest half century in the history of China’s development. During this time, the countryside was destroyed, the peasants disappeared, and the population sequence that had previously spread evenly across China’s land was suddenly filled with brand-new cities. And the agricultural culture itself was not going away, it was alienated and absorbed, it absorbed every drop of the compound of the new urban arrivals and the colorful imports.

Similarly, folk belief also came to the city with these people, and the cold urban life did not make those clay figurines reappear in the corner of the city. What is their position in this huge symbol is my research direction.

 

MOODBOARD

DREAM

This work will provide people with an experience, which will arouse people’s affirmation of irrationality and doubt of rationality. One can easily get a theoretical model of the work, but not a conclusive statement of the thing. This theoretical model is implanted in the user’s brain, and everything in their world starts floating again because of this model.