On The Northeast Of The Mountain God Belief

Forest and mountains, as the living places for the nationalities in northeast part of China, they provide both spacious space and abundant resources for people's survival. Without mountain, people can't exist. Because people rely on the mountain, they put God of mountain in the first place when they create the God pedigree. The God of mountain dominates people's life. Therefore, among many gods, he, who has the closest relation in people's material life, is the principle god in the natural God pedigree.In early days, the conception about God of mountain is very vague. It holds that the God of mountain is the mountain itself. This conception comes from the worship of the huge mountains in ancient times.Refers to the image and nature of the god, the God of mountain in northeast China has the characteristics of diversity and complexity. The mainstream of god of mountain 's image obeys the evolutionary law, that is god of spirits-god of animals-god of people. And the non-mainstream of god of mountain's image appears at a special time and place and has no widespread image. The nature of God of mountain in northeast China is not single, it absorb the characteristics of god of hunting, protection god and god of life. As an organic part in the folk culture's system, the belief towards God of mountain plays an importantin people's life.This paper place the God of mountain in northeast China in the time and space structure to discuss the belief towards god of mountain. As to the space construction, the belief towards God of mountain can be divided into the image of god of mountain, rituals, taboo and conception of upper, middle and bottom layer in belief of the god of mountain. As to the time construction, the belief towards God of mountain accumulates many historical and different cultural factors of different times. That is the important reason for the diversity and complexity of the image of the god of mountain.