Research On Daur Minority Folk Literature And Religious Belief

Religion, the important part of human traditional culture, is always related with people's ideology, the behavior standards; Moreover, religion, a conservative field of the human culture, became a previous historical phenomenon storage place. The religion also is the mean and achievement of each literary arts. It offers people to explore and discuss. Of course the Daur which is believed by Shaman is not naturally exceptional. The history of Shaman is an aspect of the developing history in the Daur ancient civilization.The Shaman literature is a part of Daur national folk literature. In the Daur national myth fable, each kind of God originates the fable and the Shaman is full of magic arts fable, which holds the important status.The Shaman, the myth and the Daur national sacrificial god songs is closely connected. They originates from the race ancestors. The myth content are constituted by the understanding for world things, the explanation for the various gods and the merit praise for various gods; Shaman religious ritual is composed of worships and each kind of religious activities, Shaman religious songs that is one of ancient folk songs is constituted of extols which are praised by the god. The Daur national myth certainly does not represent Shaman complete world outlook, the negative contents are not adopted. We also do not think all the Daur national different kinds of folk songs originate from Shaman. The literature and the religion not only have the extremely close connection, but also have the certain difference, the two definitely are not equal.All in all, our country's Shaman culture is in the process which approaches disappearance, under such historical condition, despite the survival Daur national Shaman, or Daur national Shaman culture insider, despite the passing emotion they have, they all very much get used to the modern life, although their role in life is various. This article does not make the universal significance the theory to discuss, it just wants to introduce present Shaman people's situation which live in the northeast. They are the great source of inspiration to me.Shaman and Daur national folk literature are extremely close related. They have the homologous relations, such as the Daur national myth, the Daur national folk songs; also have relations of mutual influence, like the later generation folk literature style, the Daur national legend, the Daur national story. In the Daur national literature research, Shaman holds the special status, it especially like a key to the Daur national folk literature treasure house, without it, we will have a difficulty to open this artistic treasure house.The religion and the literature, specially always cannot separate with the folk literature, so if we want to study and understand the Daur national folk literature, we must understand the Daur national folk literature and Shaman.