Hunan Jianghua Yao Ethnic Folk Religion Research

Hunan Yao Yao Autonomous County, the nation's most populous area of the broader county. Jianghua Yao ethnic civil religion is divided into four parts: Show various forms of nature worship ; variety of animal worship ;stylish spirit worship ritual manifestations with emphasis on ancestor worship. By tradition, Jianghua Yao ethnic people believe that we must adhere to such a civil religion. They believe that civil religion is because such an attractive and popular religion itself that can benefit by this belief. Living in the mountains due to the kind of deep and germinal unique mystique, and that because of long-term coexistence and germinal Taoism inclusive, accession to the WTO view and view of the natural combination of birth germinal integration of faith involved in all aspects of life germinal permeability of its four characteristics. Jianghua Yao tribe of civil religion social function mainly as follows: It helps to adjust people's mental state, so that people's mental stability; it helps people to live in harmony, let everyone live in peace; it requires people to do good facilities assistance, it requires that people are subject to moral restraint, and thus contribute to the social stability; it requires people to look at words and actions, reflect on the soul, so that people achieve self-improvement; it can promote social development. Hunan and Guangxi Bucheon Jianghua Yao Yao ethnic civil religion in the same point:are faith-based nature worship;attach importance to the concept of ghosts are in a colorful ceremony as a carrier.Both have the same point of reasons: both belong to the Yao, national origin the same; they live almost the same geographical environment; between the Yao people will migrate and cultural exchanges. Bucheon Jianghua Yao Yao ethnic and religious differences folk: Jianghua Yao ethnic comparison of animal worship dilute, and Bucheon Yao abundance of animal worship; in their faith and family at the ceremony, Jiang Huayao pay more attention to recite, and Bucheon Yao, pay attention to musicality; Jianghua Yao ethnic civil religion greatly affected by Taoism, and Bucheon Yao Taoist folk religion by a relatively small impact. There are differences between the two reasons: both the Yao people live around people and social conditions are different; two different geographical location, so by the other religious beliefs have different effects; two places in the history of civil religion different levels of interference by the regime. Ongoing study of civil religion is still very limited, the hope that more insight to the civil religion of the research development and hard work, hope that the study of civil religion can flourish.