Mongolian Trees Worship And Cultural Studies

This article thinks that it comes from the old culture of natural worships and is a religious cultural phenomenon with profound connotation and rich extension. Even it is, the living trees worship culture once extensively existed in people's life had been retreated to the back of the forms of expression of various customs, taboos, literature and art due to the times change, the history development, the environment of living and the change of living style. It faded out of the people's memory through generations. It is necessary to excavate and analysis it, and make all the contents belonged to the trees worship in various fields colluded. The research of trees worship of Mongolian is of cross cutting research and need to combine with social history, religion, custom, folk literature as well as the ecological environment hence to expound this religious culture omnibearingly and exactly.This article extends the research field of worshipping trees to the above research fields. The whole article contains introduction, main-body and bibliography while the main-body is composed of five chapters.In the introduction, the content of the Mongolian trees worship is introduced and the the research meaning, the general situation of the research, the data sources and the research method of the article are all stated.Chapter one, taking man ape, ancient times human being and primeval forest as its headlines and contains three subheads:man ape and primeval forest, the ancestors of Northern nomadic people and the ancestors of Mongolian people and primeval forest. In this chapter, the author puts forward the viewpoint that trees worship is the earliest formed natural worship.From man ape to neoteric, human being experienced a long time. In about multi-million years, Mongolian people depended on primitive forest, took it as the homeland and lived a wild and group life. It could be said that the primitive forest had always been the first survival environmental preference. The earliest northern nomadic group and the Mongolian ancestors had been living in the primitive forest and the boundary of forest and grassland. There was a particular relation between Mongolian traditional culture and the primitive forest and its belief could be away from the forest and trees.Chapter two, mainly discusses the content about trees worship in Mongolian fold literature. There are rich contents about trees worship culture in Mongolian folk literature. The author argues that the form and modal of trees worship in Mongolian folk literature had lost its obvious characters and tended to express symbolization therefore it is hard for people to find prototype of its natural worship. This article, seeks for the restoring of literature utterances and the trees worship in its expression.Chapter three, taking Mongolian natural worship as its main content, discusses the kinds of trees and worship custom concerned with trees worship in various sacrifice ceremony like sacrifice to the fire and Aobao and so on. The author also discusses the relation between the object of sacrifice and the trees worship. Mongolian people think that all things on earth has its patron saint and there must be a close relation between trees and gods. People take various kinds of sacrifice activities, i.e. Sacrifice to the fire, Aobao and worship are to communicate with the gods, and make the gods delighted.Chapter four, focuses on the relation between trees worship and marriage and the concept of life and death and explains the cultural content of trees worship connotated in these customs. Mongolian used particular wooden appliances with related taboo customs in different ceremonies like wedding, begging for sons and funeral ceremony. These particular appliances and related customs were permeated with trees worship connotation. While with the remote ages inheriting and symplified content and procedure of the ceremonies, the original form had been changed and became a habit without knowing its connotation. This chapter tries to explain the trees worship in the above layers. Chapter five, mainly discusses the relation between Mongolian trees worship and wooden appliances. This part analyses the cultural connotation of sacrifice to trees, Suliding, wind and horse, and, the deity pole used in Shamanism ceremony and reveals the cultural source of the wooden appliance in some aspects. This chapter also analyses various taboo customs of wooden appliance in Mongolian daily life. There are various taboo custom of wooden appliance in their daily life and these taboos all have relationship with the trees worship and its prototype comes from primitive trees worship.