Research On The Shamanic Sacrifice Ceremony Of The Incipient People Of Chinese Banner

The people of Chinese Banner are a special community between Qiren and Minren in Qing Dynasty. They enjoyed higher social positions than the Han people. The people of Chinese Banner's mainly originated from Han people in Liaodong. In the process of Qing Dynasty construction, they made special contributions and won the vanquisher status and enjoyed the banner man qualifications. They all call themselves"The incipient people of Chinese Banner"After soreasing Manchu's ruling over the main land. And they bestows by entering into Shan Hai Guan in order to distinguish the later period joined Chinese Banner.The incipient people of Chinese banner held shamanic sacrifice ceremony, which was also called"Qixiang of Chinese Banner". It is one of the main sacrifice ceremonies, which orinated from the incense burning. This kind of sacrifice ceremony in the Northeast is called hand drum (other name Dangu).It evoluted under specific history condition. This sacrifice ceremony was popular in the northeast, and took Liaoning as the center. It is the main sacrifice ceremony by the people in these regions. The origin play of Minren increases is generally considered Liaoyang. In the early years of Qing Dynasty, a large number of Han People immigrated to northeast with their activities of their sacrifice ceremonies. Thus Minren incenses got development. In the early period of Qing Dynasty, a large number of Han Nationality from northeast joined eight banners. So their belief was influenced by Man Nationality and changed greatly. Finally it is separated from completely Minren incenses and developed into the incipient Chinese banner independently-a kind of shamanic sacrifice ceremony.Over viewing the development of Shamanic sacrifice ceremony of the people of Chinese Banner, it can be divided into three stages. 1) The forming stage which stared from 1640s to 1730s. It evolved form"Minren incenses"of Han Nationality and absorbs massive Shamanism from Man nationality. It formed the earliest shape of the incipient people of Chinese Banner. 2) The development stage of the incipient Chinese Banner's Shaman from 1640s to 1730s. This time was marked as the Chinese army eight banners mainly were experiencing from the soldier to agricultural transformation. Therefore this time Chinese army eight banners Shaman sacrificial ceremony was focused on ancestor worship. Compared with the first stage, it reduced the content of army sacrifice ceremony. Because this time massive three Fan's remainder were enrolled in the Chinese army,which caused the Chinese army appeared the sacrificial ceremony outside the colors of northeast folk custom. Moreover , the Qianlong year promulgated"Man Zhou To offer a sacrifice to God To offer sacrifice to heaven Ceremony",which was an huge impact on the Chinese Army's Shaman's sacrificial ceremonies. This reduced the Shamanic sacrificial ceremonies of Northern Han. Clergy's reduction has urged its professionalism directly. Afterwards,the clergies held sacrifice ceremonies to human because their living condition. Therefore in this time, the incipient people of Chinese Army's shamanic sacrificial ceremonies were combined with Minren incenses. 3) The third stage is the declining period of The incipient Chinese banner's shamanic ceremonies. It started form 1920s until now. this period is marked Xin Hai Revolution, which changed the thought of human beings, which made this kind of sacrificial ceremonies activities to restore to former condition,Until now,the sacrificial ceremonies was already become one kind of vestige of pure folk custom.According to different goals of sacrificial ceremonies,the sacrificial ceremonies of The incipient people of Chinese banner can mainly divided into hope incenses, peace incenses, noble incenses, Panbo incenses and happy incenses. The scale of ceremonies is depended on the economical conditions of each family which ready to sacrifice. The process of the ceremony is composed of the discussion abut shamanic sacrifice and performance. The main ceremony is focused on east invaade of Lishimin year. In the meantime there are also some other activities. The incipient people of Chinese banner use its concise language and indicate their ancestors worship to animals, such as dragon, tiger and cat. They also showed their belief toward to God. They also indicated to ancestor God belief to folks and so on stove god, gate god, spirits of Wudao .they even has permeated certain Taoism, Buddhism thought. But it is extremely numerous and disorder strict religious doctrine. In the whole, they lack the unification of the belief system, and they belongs to one kind typically, the disperser, spontaneous, folk nature belief behavior. To a certain cultural pattern people, they mainly obtain a lindy of cultural Knowledge from it.Although the incipient people of Chinese was influenced by Shamanism, but it shows great differences from Shamanism. They have different systems of God, holy tool and sacrifice ceremony. The Bilateral surface of Chinese Banner made their sacrifice Have distinctive style. It combines sacrifice ceremony and folk rump story and dram together.