The Religious Pracitice Of People On The Sino-Vietnamnese Border

There is a boundary line over22,800kilometers between China and itsneighbors, along the line lived North Korea, Mongolian, Tibetan, Uygur, Kazak,Zhuang, and Yao, etc. they are all cross-national minorities. Among them, Zhuangis the only community with largest population in China. And in Vietnam, Zhuang’sbrotherly branch with which it has the same ancestors has been divided into fivedifferent branches---Dai; Nong; Bubiao;Laji;Shanzhai---by the Vietnamesegovernment;people of Zhuang living in Sino-Vietnamese border possess their ownstrong religious belief in daily lives.With Nonglong Tun,one of the branches of Zhuang nationality inGuangxi Province as an example, the thesis expounds the local villagers’ religiouspractice. The religious practices held by them are usually for ancestor worship andconversion ceremonies. The villagers express their wild adoration for ancestors bythe worship shrine ceremony and MuJi activities. The conversion ceremony is heldto solve unexpected crises and confront with the uncertainty in future, so that itcould bless people for a comfortable life. it consists of through ceremony andrehabilitation ceremony which applies religious culture to cure illness. The throughceremony shifts an individual from one social role to another one, or even twomore roles, such as in Anhua ceremony, one of the through ones, it urges people tofinish adequate role shift in pregnant issues. Rehabilitation ceremony is that thevillagers dispel ghosts or shout soul to cure diseases. The village priests dividedinto Daogong and Mogong, the ceremonies held by Mogong are rich in Wu culture,while the ones by Daogong are deeply affected by Taoism culture. Besides theceremonies held for local villagers, the priests are also holding ceremonies inVietnam. With aging and death of the old priests, who once moved from China toVietnam, and along with the popularization of Vietnamese, young people are notfamiliar with Chinese and do no longer understand the religious belief culture, which is with Chinese characters as its carrier. In the final part of the thesis, itconcludes that the religious culture of Sino-Vietnamese border is the mixture oftraditional Confucian culture, Buddhist doctrine and Taoism. Besides, theinheritance crisis of Dai’ traditional religious culture in Vietnamese border cannotbe ignored either.