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Guo, Junhong. 2020. Scarcity and Acquisition: A Social Metaphor of the Story of the Dragon Kings Marriage. Folklore Studies 5. 132+159-160 pp.
Publication type
Article in journal
Publication language
Chinese
ISBN
10024360

Abstract

In the southeast of Shanxi Province, the story of “the Dragon King’s Marriage” is actually a realistic metaphor about the lack and acquisition of local social life resources. The wife rainwater exchange between human and the dragon god is a social exchange that comes from satisfying human’s self-interests. The people’s lack of water has prompted them to construct oral narratives and behavioral rituals of getting married with the Dragon King. On the one hand, the legend expresses the people's fear of the lack of production materials. On the other hand, it also reflects the people's thought and exploration on how to obtain resources. The social metaphor analysis that brings the legend of Dragon King's Marriage into daily life practice can not only change the previous research tendency of taking the story text as the analysis object, but also be a case supplement of the dynamics research paradigm of the legend.