| "Jie Bang"is a religious ceremony of the zhuang people in the northwest ofguangxi, which mianly deals with the relationship among the human being,ghost,and god in order to pray for health. This essay will inspect and research on thisceremony in sight of anthropology. Performer in the ceremony , witchmomen andwitchimen are main subject , and they are researched in terms of life ,economy, andits descendence .This essay will probe into the change of their roles and analysehow this special group integrate into the local social life and participate in socialinteraction under witchship atmospher and it will discuss their role and influnceabout"JiebBang"ceremony in the local community and depict deeply the processof the ceremony. Then it will anlyze the Connotation of ceremony and inspect howthe god's blessing act on the human being by description of the processing of theceremony and combination of zhuang people's traditional view about humanbeing , soul and fate.Under the traditional culture of Witchcraft ,it finally proposethat the purpose of the ceremony is a proposition of caring for life and alsomaintain the harmony of the individual life. However, the deep significance of theceremony is that it can deal with the contradiction among the human being,ghost,and god in order to achieve the harmony of the cosmos. |
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