Brief Research On The Folk Custom Of The Unicorn Worship Of China

Unicorn worship is a people's worship to unicorn. The folk custom of the unicorn worship is the custom caused by the fact that people worship unicorn. It is said that the unicorn is a spirit creature in the ancient legend, regard roe as prototype, and is an imagination animal which the ancient assembled many kinds of animal's characteristics. The content of the folk custom of the unicorn worship includes unicorn's appearance, unicorn's sprits, unicorn's symbol meaning and the sort and alternate name of the unicorn. The unicorn has the sprits of characterizing with the chief of animals, clever, available benevolence, predicting lucky, receiving morals, driving evil child divine etc, it is the symbol of auspicious sign, person with ability and authority. The unicorn worship is originated from the psychology of the humanity seeks victory, it is the replacement of the roe'worship and development develop on the basis attracting some implication of deer worship. The evolution of the unicorn worship includes the evolution of the unicorn's appearance, unicorn's masculine and feminine elements five lines of attributes as well as the cultural implications of the unicorn worship. The unicorn's appearance changes along with the time's development, and has its unique characteristic in each historical period. Unicorn has the cultural implications as follows: the chief of animals, benevolent animal, the spirit of bodyguard, the spirit of driving evil child, the symbol of auspicious sign and the symbol of personage . The have gone through a long developing course. The unicorn worship of China is fetish worship not totem adoration. The folk custom of the unicorn worship of china has produced important effect in social living, has aesthetic, guidance and adjustment functions etc. Unicorn is the human imagination masterpiece, the folk custom of unicorn worship is one kind of important folk belief, one kind of outstanding cultural heritage of china nation. Studying the folk custom of unicorn worship from the angle of the folklore's history, and discussing on the questions, such as content, origin, evolution, nature, function, status as well as research significance etc, in hope of having scientific and integrity understanding to the folk custom of unicorn worship.