Legends,Temple Fairs and Cultural Identity——the Local Generation and Time Reflection of the Belief of Cao Xian'ao
The belief of Cao Xian'ao is a folk ritual activity spread in Daning,Yonghe,Yanchang,Yichuan and other places.With the continuous expansion of its clerical functions,creating people,educating people,contorting flood,resisting marriage,death,apparition and other legends continued to grow,and Cao Xian'ao also leaped into full-function river blasphemy god-the Yellow River Fairy.Based on the local classics,temple inscriptions,archives of literature and history,field interviews,this paper combs out the local formation of Cao Xian'ao's belief,puts forward some suggestions on its contemporary inheritance,spread and development,and tells the story of the Yellow River well,and we will strengthen cultural confidence and promote the fusion and transformation development of culture and tourism.
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