墓碑在现代中国的普及和“孝子”们——来自陕西省中部农村的案例

Increasing Gravestones and Category Changing about "Filialdescendants" in Contemporary China

本文以陕西省中部地区普遍存在的墓碑为研究对象,分析其中体现出的当地人宗族、自家人意识的变化。本文的特点在于将墓碑作为文化认同的一个重要体现,研究碑文的撰写过程、碑文内容的变化形态、碑文体现的价值观、碑文的文化意识问题以及建碑过程中的模仿与凑合(Bricolage)行为,从而总结出近年来"孝子"们有意识或无意识的变化,以及变化的底线。

This paper discusses the change of the Chinese family relationships by analyzing the movement to build gravestones in Shanxi,China.In this paper,I examine to build gravestones as a process that making and getting some approval about people's co-memories.Through this case study,I exhibit building gravestones provide opportunities to express cultural identities,to imitate and tune cultural ideal models with"bricolage"and I show changing of"fllialdescendants"category have distinct tendencies.