A Study Of The Moruo Miao People’s Knock Bull For Ancestor Customs In Central Guizhou

The Moruo Miao people was an early pioneer in the middle of Guizhou,distributed in the mountainous area around the provincial city of Guiyang.In the long-term historical development,it has formed a unique cultural tradition and customs,with distinctive ethnic characteristics in the culture of clan,faith,funeral,marriage,clothing,festivals and other cultures.The Moruo Miao people are in awe of the heaven and earth ancestors,advocating nature,good ghosts and witches,and believe in the concept of soul and animism.The ancestor ritual of knocking bull is the most solemn and grand sacrificial ritual of the Moruo Miao people.It originated from the ancestral worship belief,and there are different legends about its origin.The process bull-knocking for ancestors is complex,with many steps and long durations.The activity must go through initiation,negotiation,selection of bull,welcome bull,stepping on the field,fighting field,rituals,feasting,knocking bulls,sending bull necks,rolling souls Please invite bull souls for multiple ceremonial sessions.The longer will take several years and the shortest will take three months.The knocking bull for ancestor is divided according to different criteria.There are funeral knocking bull for ancestor and special knocking bull for ancestor.There are differences between knocking buffalo for ancestor and knocking cattle for ancestor.Ancestors have a more typical cultural form.The ritual links and cultural connotations of funeral knocking bull for ancestor and knocking yellow cattle for ancestor can be reflected in knocking water buffalo for ancestor.The Moruo Miao people regard knocking bull to sacrifice their ancestors as a lifetime glory.Every Moruo Miao people pursues at least once a bull to sacrifice theirancestors.The main sacrifice object of the knocking bull for ancestor is the father.During the sacrifice,the names of all the deceased ancestors in the family should be recited,and they are invited to participate in the festival and enjoy the worship,so as to pray for the ancestors to bless and bless.Between the living and the ancestors of the dead,ancestors and ancestors exchanged ancestors and ghosts to form a mutually beneficial relationship.Whether or not knocking bull for ancestor sacrifices have been held is very different for Moruo Miao people.The people who knocked the bull have a very important position in the Moruo Miao people society.The knocking bull for ancestor contains the multiple cultural connotations of the Moruo Miao,mainly including the two aspects of clan culture and belief culture.The knock bull for ancestor sacrifice ceremony was presided over by the ghost master,with members of the clan participating together,and members of the in-laws assisting to complete the joint.By knocking bulls to sacrifice ancestors,the Moruo Miao people use the worship of the same ancestor to consolidate the clan members,strengthen the members ’recognition of the clan identity and their own identity,enhance the emotional maintenance between the clan and the in-laws,build a harmonious rural social order,and maintain Social stability,inherit the Miao culture.The thesis mainly includes seven parts.The first part is an introduction,which mainly introduces the origin,significance and methods of research.The second part is the first chapter of the habitat of the Moruo Miao people in central Guizhou,which mainly introduces the natural environment and human environment of the Moro Miao people;The third part is an overview of the custom of knocking bull for ancestor in chapter two,which mainly introduces the origin,classification and conditions of the knocking bull for ancestor;the fourth part introduces the ritual process of knocking bull for ancestor in chronological order;The fifth part is the interpretation and analysis of the cultural connotation and function of the fourth chapter of knocking bull to sacrifice ancestors.It mainly introduces the content of the clan culture and belief culture contained in it,and analyzes the functions of identity identification,clan cohesion,cultural inheritance and social education;The sixth Part five is the era dilemma and development opportunities of knocking bulls and offering sacrifices tothe ancestors.It analyzes the crises and reasons it faces and discusses the development opportunities it ushered in in the context of the new era.The seventh part concludes and summarizes the main points of the thesis.