Modern Kazak Shamanism Culture Relics Research

The establishment of the Kazakh khanate in 1456 marked the formation of kazak. China’s kazak live in Xinjiang Province and Gansu Province and Qinghai Province. Kazak is a hospitable people, she is a nation of poetry. Kazak created a rich and unique grassland culture.In the history of kazak,she had ever believed Shamanism, Buddhism, Zoroastrianism, Nestorianism and Islam, Shamanism and Islam have produced the most profound influence on the kazak.Shamanism was created in the primitive society,it is a kind of natural religion,it was named by the shaman. The explanation of the shaman basically has excited and crazy dancers or all-knowing people. The nature of the shamanism also has different points,they are religious and non-religious. The core of Shamanism is all things have spirit concept, main content of Shamanism is the natural worship, totem worship and ancestor worship. Shamanism worldview have penetrated into all aspects of life,so shamanistic culture are formed, shamanism culture can be divided into material part of the visible and invisible spirit part.Kazak’s early ancestors have such as the Wu sun people,the Kang ju people, the huns and turkic,they all believed shamanism, they all worshiped heaven, earth, fire and the soul of ancestors, the Wolf totem was their common faith.The period of Tao Ke Han in Kazakh khanate was the cut-off point, the rule of shamanism and the political status of the shaman and survival environment has had the qualitative change, before Tao Ke Han shamanism was the state religion, the public can faith openly, shaman belonged to the ruling class and enjoyed a high status in the society,During the period of Tao Ke Han,he abolished the shamanism and established Islam as the state religion, shamanism was forbidden, the shaman was hit, their activities was banned in society, Shamanism has not disappeared, shamanism has been living in a variety of ways In the folk,shamanism culture has become a part of the kazak folk.In Islam transmission process to kazak, the influence of shamanism was deep to Islam, shamanism had affected the content and the behavior of kazak Islam faith,Kazak faith in Allah and worshiped The soul of ancestor, Buck two identities,one is a mullah,the other is a shaman,Shamanism has had a profound impact to social life of kazak and the culture t, in social life there are a lot of taboo about the water and fire and ancestor worship. In kazakh folklore, The epic of heroes,the love epic, life etiquette and custom song, modern literature, we can find the trace of shamanism.Shamanism still left in the modern every level of life, we analysis the reasons,we can found that there are five reasons: First. The shamanistic culture has Immersed in kazak ethnic psychology, as Fu Yu guang said: "(shaman) generation after generation to casting, mold, cultivated the northern national spirit, personality and psychological quality.";Second. Inclusive of kazak, this is decided by kazak life at the confluence of eastern and western civilization, The animal husbandry economy can not self-sufficiency, Ethnic origin are the diversity;Third. The common law of kazak can accept Shamanism culture and The Islamic culture; Forth. Kazak nomadic economy can adapt themselves to the shamanism culture; Fifth. Shamanism can adjust psychology and can treat the disease.