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A Study On The Tus Folk Beliefs

Posted on:2007-06-12Degree:DoctorType:Dissertation
Country:ChinaCandidate:Z X WenFull Text:PDF
GTID:1115360212956455Subject:Ethnology
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The Tus' folk beliefs is a comprehensive body,created with the animism, without highest absolute God,include nature worship,ancestor worship,spirit worship and various activities take witchcraft as basic logic,such as offer sacrifices rites,taboo and divination etc., and have laxer organization system. Compared with formally religions, it has part religious feature, is a kind of lower level faith method.On the basis of description of the Tus and its society surrounding,the paper discuss the occurrence space of the Tus' folk beliefs deeperly,and think that the Tus' village is the main space form that folk beliefs occurred.Various rite activities of folk beliefs is within the scope of village or the villages consociation carry on, each village have the particular space structure and time system.These actually are materialized forms of Tus' folk beliefs,are result of stamped ethnic thoughts on the natural space and time and hallowed the natural space and time under the instruction of folk beliefs idea.The Tus' folk beliefs, including animism and the personality gods worship ,deduces various rites that materialized and detailed its ideas in the folk beliefs,turn the ideas into Tu peoples daily life by taboo,curse,practise ivination,witchcraft,geomancy etc..There are some processes become the ideas into ethic of the folk belief in the interval.The rites of Tus' folk belief mostly all carry out activity and attain a purpose with help of regional specialist as a medium between person and gods, its place mostly takes shrine as center, the part takes the ancestor grave as center.In the light of description of the Tus' folk beliefs scope,the article made an analysis of Tus' folk beliefs deeper.Show main rites' contents of Tus' folk beliefs by analysed its begging-rain rite,Tiao-Boo(跳勃) rite,funeral rite,Taoist rite,Nadun(纳顿) rite.Believe that the purpose of the rites of Tus' folk beliefs is to finish a change from one state to new state,in order to renew and develope a ideal social life surrounding. The symbol analysis of the Tus' folk beliefs, the aim is to understand the deeper idea and realize and the inside logic concealed in concrete manifestation back by the various symbol of rites of the Tus' folk beliefs.The analysis include symbolic thinking,symbolic structure and symbolic materials. Draw out the cosmology of Tus' folk beliefs, analyze a nation symbol sign in the folk beliefs of present.The angles of explain the Tus' folk beliefs and the Tus' society include the moral life,political life,economy life,culture life,daily lifes.It explains the manifestation and the influence of the Tus' folk beliefs in their society.Think that the Tus' folk beliefs flood with the square aspect of their social activities, but with the society and economy development and education universality, Tu people's idea gets a certain change.Finally, based on the variety trend of Tus' folk beliefs and some problems needed to improve in the management,propose some principles and concrete strategy concerning Tus' folk beliefs how to adapt of the socialism society.
Keywords/Search Tags:the Tus, folk beliefs, Tus society, rite, symbol
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