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The Spirits System In Miao Avestas

Posted on:2018-11-17Degree:MasterType:Thesis
Country:ChinaCandidate:D Z HouFull Text:PDF
GTID:2335330536488292Subject:Ethnology
Abstract/Summary:
National belief is a kind of ruler and institutional elements of a nation’s community to understand all things and themselves.This paper takes Fanglong village of Jianhe County in Guizhou province as a field center,focus on the local spirits’ system of Miao people from their sacrificial ceremony.Through this virtual system of spirits to look back for real community of Miao,and we are trying to understand the realistic meaning of the spirits’ system which constructed by Miao ancestors.The respondent of this investigation in addition to the Miao supernatural,Guxiang groups as people with the spirits of communication media,who would be researched as the one of object.The gods of spirits’ world needs Guxiang groups to promote their existence,express their willing,as well as Miao people need to express their own desires through Shaman groups.Miao people and spirits are able to communicate and influence with each other because of conveying the spirits’ culturecontinuously while hold religious practices which controlled by spirits and Guxiang.In this bridge of Guxiang and sacrifices,Miao people can understand more spirits and creat more another one whom to be needed,and then,pray to them.Finally,we can see a whole spirit’ world of Miao people nowaday.After a further study analysis of the spirits’ system,Writer founds it is a mirror which can reflect the Miao culture,a microcosm of Miao people in social development.The spirits’ system have a significant influence not only to maintain the harmony relationship between human and natural,but also play a major to strengthen between people in the social relations and the statute of Miao village social order.The system of spirits is a crystal of wisdom,It can be said,to understand nature and social life of Miao ancestors in the history of the development process.It is ensure the Miao social development with healthy and steady through the supernatural spirits concept which rooted in the offspring of the heart.
Keywords/Search Tags:A Miao Village:Fanglong, Avestas, Spirits System, Guxiang Groups, the Religious Practice
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