关中西部丧葬民俗初探

Funeral Customs in Western Part of Mid-Shaanxi

关中西部丧葬民俗中保存了许多古代礼制,具有繁缛复杂、内蕴深厚、格调悲戚的特点,主要过程为小殓、请相师、报丧、大殓、祭奠、下葬等,这些传统民俗包含了哀而不伤、次序分明的生命意识和纲常伦理,是封建宗法制社会形态的重要特点,深刻影响了民众的生命意识和宗法观念。

Funeral customs in Western part of mid-Shaanxi province in China saved a lot of ancient ceremonial features as over-elaborate complexity,deep intrinsic and sorrow style. The main process characterized as small burial,asking a fortune teller,obituary notice,encoffining ceremony,paying homage and bury,which include a consciousness and ethical code with distinct order and a grief but not hurt environment. That is an important characteristic of feudal patriarchal clan system of social form,profoundly affected people’s public consciousness and the concept of patriarchal clan.