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The Vulcan Belief And Ritual Practice Of Wu La Te Mongolian Nationality

Posted on:2018-09-27Degree:MasterType:Thesis
Country:ChinaCandidate:J X XieFull Text:PDF
GTID:2335330515995829Subject:Ethnology
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This paper foremost focuses on the Vulcan belief of the Wulate Mongolian people,which one of the Mongolian tribes.It is lies between the China and The People's Republic of Mongolia border that in the northwest of China.Around the ritual practice related to the Vulcan belief,analyzing the image and power or responsibility of Vulcan in the process of local major rituals,to explore the Wulate Mongolian people for the Vulcan's cognitive problems;analyzing the Vulcan belief system,which behind the evolution of the Vulcan sacrificial system and the Vulcan image,to point out the existence and core value of this belief system for the Wulate Mongolians.In the part of introduction,it is mainly discusses the origin,significance,research background,field material and the innovation of the paper.The first chapter summarizes the origin and migration history of the Wulate Mongolian people,then described the origin and evolution of the Vulcan belief,the ritual system,the relevant ritual experts,etc.The second chapter and the third chapter focused on the village B as the representative of the Wulate Mongolian herdsmen family sacrifice Vulcan ceremony and the camel offering fire ceremony,which named the Year sacrifice and the Spring sacrifice.The Year sacrifice have more than 300 years,the Spring sacrifice have more than 1000 years.Through the origin,preparation,process and taboos of the ritual practice,the image and the rights or responsibilities of the Vulcan in the ritual,to analysis the interaction and reciprocity for the people and supernatural being,for the people and others in the Vulcan sacrifice ritual.And pointed out that the Vulcan worship system under the implication is the core of belief for the local Mongolian people.The starting point of the fourth chapter is the traditional ritual practice which centered on the Vulcan brief.To expound the Vulcan image,power and responsibility,which in the ritual of Sacrifice gods,weddings,funerals and other daily practice,so that make the herdsmen belief system of Wulate Mongolian together,which as the center and the main line for the Vulcan brief.Then,analysis therelationship between the traditional "state of mind" and the "intermittent" intrusion of national discourse that under the local herders' belief system.The chapter 5 deals with the intercourse and confrontation between the government's Sacrifice Vulcan of collective in 2013 and the folk herders' Sacrifice Vulcan of family.The official construction of the Sacrifice Vulcan of collective is undoubtedly guided by the national environmental discourse,the "ecological value" and "cultural development strategy".And what is the opposite is herders' production,life practice and "local knowledge".This kind of construction of the collective rituals was "rebelled" by the local herdsmen' linguistic and physical practice,by hedging with the solid core beliefs of the local Wulate Mongolians.The conclusion part points out how the daily belief life in the traditional society of the border and pastoral areas is "expressed" through the ritual.The main beliefs and cultural values of the "expression" of the traditional ritual practice of the Mongolian people through the family Sacrifice Vulcan,the camel Sacrifice Vulcan,the ritual of Sacrifice gods and the weddings and funerals and so on.The local Vulcan Sacrificial System,which is implied by the external characterization of the local Vanguard worship system,is a typical example of folk beliefs.In short,this paper is intended from the perspective of ritual theory.Focus on the fieldwork and reference,especially in the field survey for local ecologi cal and cultural development of real-time policy to discuss,which is combined with the critical symbol of national character and the belief ritual system of h erders.In the use of the practical theory as the analytical tool,by analyzing the brief system behind the Wulate Mongolian's Vulcan sacrifice system,Showing how the Wulate Mongolians believe in Vulcan and around the Vulcan,how to c arry out the relevant ritual practice.And then explain the Vulcan belief system and the sacrifice system itself which has the cultural attributes and provisions.And try to explore in the contemporary consumer social context,how to devel op will be better.
Keywords/Search Tags:Wulate Mongolians, Vulcan belief, Ritual practice
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