Qiang Offering A Preliminary Study Of The Tower

The history of our Qiang is one of the most ancient nations, has a longhistory and rich culture, known as the " mother of the Chinese nation". Todaythe main distribution in Sichuan Aba Tibetan and Qiang Autonomous Prefectureof Maoxian, Wenchuan, and Mianyang city Beichuan Qiang Autonomous County,of which Maoxian is the most populous county of Qiang nationality. The authorparticipated in Sichuan Province in the third national cultural relics surveyfound that in Maoxian, there are many tower, northern Qiang language called"Le color", southern Qiang language called" Nasha", previously in theliterature called" mountain of Fawang"," tower", the census will unify thenamed" offering tower". This is the offering tower in Maoxian as the researchobject, carries on the summary of the research in academic circles, in orderto make up for this deficiency, the author. This thesis consists of fiveparts.Part Ⅰ, preface. The author in the introduction outlines the researchbackground and the significance, the related research literature undertookcombing, finally introduces the research methods and the innovation of thearticle.Part Ⅱ, offering an overview of the Maoxian Qiang tower. This sectionwill combine with survey data on the tower of sacrifice. because Maoxian isthe cultural core area, so this will be in Maoxian for the survey. First ofall, on the basic situation of Maoxian were introduced, including thegeographical environment and historical development; next to the Maoxianexisting offerings tower specific conditions were introduced, including eachoffering tower location as well as offering tower was built, shape, size,material, and offering tower in local use; Finally, this paper will combinethe offering of the shape of the tower, the religious beliefs, offering aroundthe tower columns, and offering tower Qiang other artifacts, and the relevantliterature, for offering the age inferred tower.Part Ⅲ, the initial study of offering tower. As a result of offeringtower construction materials required for the natural rock, this paper willfirstly the selection of offering tower reason; secondly, offering a towertype special, for it contains a profound meaning, this article will be tostudy; offering tower has experienced a long process, first of all is whitestone worship period, so this will be on the worship of white stone, and onthe origin of offering tower; finally this paper will combine the offeringof the shape of the tower, the religious beliefs, offering around the tower columns, and offering tower Qiang other artifacts literature, for offeringthe age inferred tower.Part Ⅳ, offering tower as the center of the related the religiousceremony. Through literature and field survey, the main tower is used as aritual offering of sacrificial objects appear. Combined with the survey datain Maoxian, and offering tower related rituals is more, this paper mainlyintroduces several important ceremony, respectively, over the mountains, theoffering of Wahl’s foot, offering lamb of god. The segment from each ritualorigin, process and meaning emphatically introduced.Part Ⅴ, Protecting Qiang offering tower and its religious rites,countermeasures and suggestions. In the field survey found that, as a resultof the earthquake and offering tower and other reasons, suffered varyingdegrees of damage. In this part, this will be the first tower itself onoffering protection and puts forward some of his own opinions; as offeringtower as religious ritual object appears, if religious rituals disappeared,then offering the tower will not worthy to exist, so this paper will alsooffering tower corresponding religious ritual protection some of the viewsof their own.