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Cognitive Difference of Generations in the 1970s and 1990s Towards Ancestor Worship Culture

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Ancestor worship is an important Chinese culture and custom, and it symbolizes the inheritance of tradition and filial piety. However, with the development of the economy and technology, social demographic structure changes which influences the family structure. The spirit and form of the ancestor worship culture thus become different. Therefore, this study aimed to explore different values and cognition of the generations of the 1970s and 1990s towards ancestor worship culture. Through a questionnaire survey, this study analyzed the cognition of the generations of the 1970s and 1990s towards meaning, festival, place, items, rituals, and taboos of ancestor worship culture in different financial situations, environments of growth, and families. There were 153 valid questionnaires, including 89 subjects in the generation of 1970s and 64 subjects in the generation of the 1990s. It adopted the independent sample t-test analysis and explored the cognitive difference of two generations towards ancestor worship culture. According to research findings, the generation of the 1970s paid attention to the spirit and the meaning of ancestor worship culture, items of ancestor worship, worship places, and ancestors’ tablets and they recognized the meanings of the objects. With the accessibility of online information, they were willing to obtain knowledge related to ancestor worship through online learning. Cognition of the generation of the 1990s towards ancestor worship culture was insignificant. They thought that ancestor worship was not the responsibility of the elderly and they showed low intention to learn the details of ancestor worship. They agreed that online ancestor worship can still show gratitude towards ancestors to replace traditional ancestor worship. The cognition analysis of the two generations towards ancestor worship culture can serve as the reference for digital ancestor worship culture in the future. It not only extends the development of Chinese ancestor worship culture but also meets the trend of the time.

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This study received partly financial support from the Ministry of Science and Technology, under Grant No. MOST 109-2813-C-143-028-H.

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Chang, CL. (2022). Cognitive Difference of Generations in the 1970s and 1990s Towards Ancestor Worship Culture. In: Gao, Q., Zhou, J. (eds) Human Aspects of IT for the Aged Population. Technology in Everyday Living. HCII 2022. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 13331. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-05654-3_24

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