Analysis Of Tree Worship Speciality Of Man-Tungusic Nationalities

Shamanism is the primitive religion of northern nationalities. The nourishing of Shaman culture makes the tree worship of Man-Tungusic nationalities still fresh after long. The northern Shaman culture gestated the spiritual life of Altai Ethnics from generation to generation. It had effect on orginazation, marriage and family, behavior and customs of these people. It also coordinated the relationship between members and the relationship between members and overall.Shaman culture worked on the life of these nationalities unobtrusively and imperceptibly. It has molded the charctor and value orientation of nationalities, and become their psychic support of facing envirenmental pressure since thousands years ago.The belief of Shamanism forms the distinctive cultural tradation in the north. With development of thousands years, Shaman culture multiplied a large system of gods and all kinds of believes, like the tree worship system. The mythical system of the worship contains the primitive universe concept of northeast Asian people. The world tree worship is the source of all kinds of tree worships. The rehabitation made by Shamanism and the action of historical and geographical envirenment of different nationalities formed current condition of tree worship. Nowadays, there are many kinds of tree worships, such as life tree,Saman tree, Aobao tree, mountain magical tree, tree of clan, nominal mother tree and magical pole. All of them made the natural worship that has northen national characteristics shine. The contents and features of tree sacrifice have the same points in the difference because of the different factors of political, economic and culture.The worship is the product of original thinking, and the inevitable worship content made by northern natural and geographical environment. The unity and separation of megical tree and tree god compound the treeworship with other gods. The megical tree has been connected with northern bird totem, mountain godand goddess throughout the development of thousands years. The megical tree played a main role in Saman Myth. The complex of Myth description and deity worship greatly expanded and enriched the content of tree worship.The tree worship of northern groups has exclusive characteristics that is different from other groups. It's also different from the wooden building woship of central area culture and megical tree of Taoism and the forest worship of southeast groups, but it has the feature of northern nomatics. The relationships among the development process of tree, tree in the Myth and female reproductive are the source of Chinese ancient tree worship and the main basis to intepretate the tree worship of Man-Tungusic groups.