Paper short abstract:

The Parade of Seven-Saints in Xiafang Village of Fujian Province of China is a local festival and still very popular in the live-world of local villagers. We attended this festival several years ago and made a film about the ritual and the people who took part in it.

Paper long abstract:

The Parade of Seven-Saints in Xiafang Village of Fujian Province of China is a local festival and still very popular in the live-world of local villagers. We attended this festival several years ago and made a film about the ritual and the people who took part in it. In the shooting process of the "Seven-SaintsTemple", its complicated cultural events, mysterious makeup process, complex clan relations, especially the exploration of its more complex and diversified belief origins, like Taoism, folk gods belief and maybe some relics of Zoroastrianism, make this shooting and research work full of challenges. It is the only way for visual anthropology to stand on and develop in the contemporary system of anthropology to build an academic connection between images and text, which is independent and dialectical, appealing to senses and exploring the field of life-world.