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The Research On Folk Belief Of Zhuang Nationality's Shigong In Fengwu Township Pingguo County

Posted on:2011-11-28Degree:MasterType:Thesis
Country:ChinaCandidate:X C LuFull Text:PDF
GTID:2189330338482994Subject:Folklore
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Folk belief is a universal cultural phenomenon of human society. Belief of Zhuang Nationality's Shigong in Fengwu township Pingguo county originates from ancient Baiyue base that has a variety of beliefs such as Wizard and Tao's belief. In the specific historical stage, belief of Zhuang Nationality's Shigong is a cultural phenomena that mankind creates and inherits with a view to meeting the needs of survival and development, in particular the need for psychological safety. According to the size and time consuming, how much it costs of such rituals , rituals that local shigongs undertake are classified into large, medium and small types. For example, initiation ritual shows a process that acquisition of new shigong's identity simulates that a preson is born and socialized. Funeral Ceremony embodies that local people worship soul of ancestor. Praying ceremony includes people's multiple desirability, so it is able to aggregate people of Zhuang Nationality, and form a societal community of mutual aid and cooperation. It reflects very clearly that the cultural Connotation that is about belief of Zhuang Nationality's Shigong. It has shaped a unique view of eternal life that death only is a conversion of life's form, thus brings the terminal care to the dying man. It prompts that descendents carry forward the spiritual power of ancestors. It also promoted the harmonious development of multi-cultural and enhance strongly national consciousness of the Zhuang Nationality's people. Nevertheless, in the face of the business community of rapid modernization, inheritance of Shigong's belief confronts a series of problems such as culture of heritage people, guidance and control of governmental policy, Believers'mentality of belief. Thus, Shigong's belief brings forth a certain mutation in order to obtain the spatial of existence and continued. Certainly, every coin has two sides。Therefore, it also has certain negative effects。Thus, it is currently showing a inevitable trend to decline. In spite of this, custom of Shigong's belief is very fascinated ethnic customs and a code of the national spirit that does not learn enough. We have to take the attitude, that is to say,"resist its dark sides, absorb its essence", to read it carefully and thoroughly,and guide it actively. This will come about singular luster area of Zhuang Nationality, to serve a society and life.
Keywords/Search Tags:Zhuang Nationality, Shigong, belief, custom, ritual
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