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Study On The Folk Religions And Chinese Character-written Religion Lections Of Dushan Buyi People

Posted on:2009-09-09Degree:MasterType:Thesis
Country:ChinaCandidate:L LiuFull Text:PDF
GTID:2167360245951559Subject:Human Geography
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Dushan Buyi Ethnic Minority and Han people mixed together, the common natural environment and social environment, formed a similar living habits and production methods, resulting in a similar social structure and folk psychology. Such a cultural foundation, the lections of Buddhism and Daoism for its unique cultural content and a mature artistic charm spread around the Buyi people, have formed a unique fork religion culture with the Buyi people feature, have had great impact on the development of Dushan Buyi's culture. Buyi people will sing lections as a practice in their funeral ceremony of chaodu for the death to the other world, which in addition to other folk customs, have formed a unique fork religion culture. This culture has deeply taken root in the folk area, contributing a lot to even every aspect of the life of Dushan Buyi people.However, in the recent years, this folk culture has suffered gradual dilution after the collision of economic globalization and modern cultures. On the one hand, modernization is cruelly dismembering the folk culture in an amazing speed which gradually loses the latter its crucial fundamental environment, causing noticeable changes and pushing it to the edge of extinction. On the other hand, in today's economic construction centered society, people would prefer to maximize the profit and pursue the proceeding-favored culture than to learn something from the excellent folk cultural heritage, so the folk culture is dying out or disappearing with the departure of the folk artists.This paper discusses the basics and characteristics of Buyi people as well as the essentials of the religions spreading in China. It then analyses the fork culture and Dushan Buyi culture from 4 aspects, namely the traditional festivals and customs, the folk art, etiquettes and the propaganda channels of the former three, and explains the characteristics of Dushan Buyi's folk religion culture and their alters and tempers serving Gods; illustrates and makes notes of the built-up of Religion Jingji(lections)written in Chinese characters, and finally, analyses the reason of the envision and losing of Dushan's folk Jingji and copes with the solutions to save them...
Keywords/Search Tags:Dushan Buyi ethnic minority, folk Religion, Jingji(lections) written in Chinese characters
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