A Study On The Toast Chants In Tibet From The Perspective Of Ethnic Psychology And Folk Aesthetics

The special natural environment ,rich natural resources ,a variety of natural landscapes, all kinds of life, and all kinds of worship and totem provide a great deal of possibility and reality for the Tibetan life.In the harvest days, the Tibetans not only present sweet barley wine to the guests or festivals, they also sing their own beautiful wine songs to express the joy of harvest, joy of festival, prosperity of domestic animals and beautiful blessing of marriage, thus forming a Tibetan "Wine by singing songs to help revelry," a unique twins of wine and song cultural form.Toast chants in Tibetan, the wedding chant, the farewell chant, wish chant (festival chanting words), the celebration chant as well as the chants in general occasions for blessing are very common wine songs.The sense of blessing in "Wedding chant" is presented in the praise to the bride and groom's wisdom and and morality, the praise to the lover's passing through the tests of all kinds, the joy of the wedding ceremony and the wishes to the couple after marriage. . In the "farewell chant"the Tibetans pray for the safety of the travelers, including the feelings of nostalgia the singers have to the travelers, the good wishes on their return journey and the warmest remind to the person who is going to take a long journey. Tibetans make full use of a variety of festivals, through their own singing the most touching, "festival chant" to express good wishes to each other , get in touch with friends, and enhance the solidarity.In the celebration, the Tibetans drink wine for the hymn of the eventful years, and for a wishes of a better tomorrow. In Tibet, the Tibetans always sing some "auspicious chants" even in the most ordinary, most not specially significant ocassions, or when there is no any reason to drink.However, no matter what type they are, from whatever activities or ceremonies, how complicated it is expressed, how rich it is in content or feelings, their most basic, most important, most central theme is "good luck". Because it is a collector of all Tibetans'common psychological expression of good luck. Tibetan chants also express their ethics in Tibetans group, the concept of life, life values and national pride, and it also contains a strong performance in the memory of the Tibetan people's life values. They guided the Tibetan people to have the production, live and pursuit the ideology and ideals.In ethics, they are showed that Tibetans will sing the songs when drinking. The process of toast is also different in ages, which shows that the olders are respected most. In the concept of life, the Tibetan chants have the characters of unity, recreation ,confort and optimism.In the view of life, the wine chants include the Tibetan people's understanding, fear and expectation to the endless life. In the national outlook, the wine chants contain the Tibetan people's strong sense of national identity, national belonging and national pride. Tibetan chants t widely use the popular folk-specific things.In Tibet, the ubiquitous nature things are the representatives of magic, luck and strength. They are all the gods in the hearts of the Tibetans. the Tibetans'feeling to the religious things has been into the sense of national unity and the heart of every individual. The worship Tibetan have to hero, contains the Tibetan people's passion in lives and working atmosphere. It is also filled with the passion of the struggle for justice and the joy of victory, and permit the Tibetan people's hero character.They are good at make the color white into the Cognitive of unity, longing for a clean, pure, bright, light and holy place. The Tibetans'worship to the god of nature, god of religion, god of hero and color white give people a kind of amazing impression and pleasant feelings.The chants in Tibet are treasures in literature of Tibetan. When the Tibetan people are making up these chants, they have a great effect on the national fork literature.They include the wide use of analogy, parallelism, allusion. The chants have much to do with the traditional culture of Tibetan. And they also express Tibetans'national character and aesthetic psychology.The natural environment, the national psychology, folk things, aesthetic ideas have given birth to the toast chants in Tibet.We can say that if we analyze different Tibetan toast chants in Ethnology, anthropology, folklore, religious studies, cultural studies, psychology, literature, aesthetics, philosophy, geography, science , mine and develop the special culture, discuss the relationship between fork culture and the culture soil and study the Tibetan chants we will have great effects on protecting and heritage intangible cultural heritage.