| Just like many other minor nationalities of China, the Yi people and Nazi people who live mainly in the southwest of China, have a long history and abundant culture.The two ethnic group peoples are belong to the same language family--Han andTibet family language, the Tibet and Burmese language branch, the Yi language sect. It is certain that there must have been some relations between the two ethnic group peoples during their migrating. Such relations exist in their own cultures. And here, I mainly study their historic connections of the two ethnic group peoples from the Worship to Ancestors.The Worship of Totem is the early original faith. It shows some striking features of the Worship to Ancestors. In fact, it can be called the Faith of Totem to Ancestors. In this writing, I compare the Faith of Ancestors of the two minor nationalities, anddraw the most representative material--the Tiger to Ancestors Totem. I think thatthe Belief of Totem reflected original people's guess to then- race resources and their identification among themselves. It is one of the most original the Worship to Ancestors. It is the easiest way to discover their race resources. I find out that there are many comparative points of the content and the forms of the Tiger totem Worship between Yi people and Naxi people.The Worship to Ancestors had developed from the Worshipping to the Female Ancestors to the Male Ancestors, from the Closing Ancestors of Clans and Families.It actually reflected the development of the society patterns. According to this point, I comparatively analyze the two ethnic group people's worshipping to the Far Ancestors and the Closing Ancestors.Basing on the birth of the original beliefs, I believe that the Worshipping to the Heaven gods, the ancient Heroes and the protective gods that were sacrificed to at the holy altars are the major forms of the Worshipping to The Far Ancestors. The forms showed the ancestor of Yi people's and Naxi people's some childish guessing to the question of the world and the human beings' coming into being, at the same tune, showed the people's admirations and praises to their ancestors' deeds.Relatively to say, the two ethnic group peoples' Worshipping to the Closing Ancestors contained some more condensed historical information. This is mainly embodied among the ceremonies to the deaths. The ceremonies includes holding a memorial and burying ceremony for the deaths, offering sacrifices to the deaths and praying for them, and the final ceremony of saving and releasing the souls of the deaths. All the ceremonies aims to expiated the sins of the dead., and each of the ceremony is an excessively detailed proceed. I discovered that there are many similarities between Yi people and Naxi people on this. They have a common viewpoint to souls. Although there exists many minor differences, I have to say that the core of the ceremonies still concentrates with showing the routes to the souls and expiating the sins of the.dead. Yi people and Naxi people believe that through holding the excessively detailed and serious ceremony, they could get the souls of the deaths be promoted their ancestor God. People find out a perfect way for the souls of dead and also for the alives. The dead rests in peace, and the alive feels comfortable and believes that their ancestor God could protect them. Among the ceremonies, the most featured one is the showing routes to souls. In this proceed, the soul of dead was consoled and they would be guided to the birthplace of their ancestors. However, many true and concrete names of places are mentioned, it is the special remembrance to their ancestors' migrating, indeed.After analyzing many forms of the Faith for Ancestors, I could draw a conclusion, that there are some close historical relations between Yi people and Naxipeople. The two ethnic groups had been contacting in some time. This sufficientlyexplained the character of China's nationalities' relations' pattern--the same raceresource but different branches, plural social cells... |
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