Tacheng Kirgiz Religion And Ethnic Identity Relationship

In this paper, through an of Tacheng Kirgiz two months of ethnographic fieldwork and specific understanding of the historical evolution of their origin, population and geographical distribution, existing cultural characteristics and cultural changes of ethnic groups and ethnic identity integration mechanism that Tacheng of the Kirgiz people to people before the 17 th century have never experienced the Islamization of, but from the 17 th century due to begin by quasi Jungar Mongols ruled and converted to Tibetan Buddhism(sect). Therefore, the Tacheng area of the Kirgiz people in front of the seventies of the 20 th century, most of the people believe are Tibetan Buddhism, only two family faith is Islam. After the reform and opening up, with the restoration of the party’s religious policy and the rise of national consciousness, in which a small part of the Kirgiz people began to convert to Islam, which is formed today, Tacheng Prefecture, Kirgiz, 80% of the people believe in Tibetan Buddhism, 20% of the people believe in Islam. The main reasons At the same time, in Tacheng Kirgiz society, religious differences and occasionally the resulting contradictions or conflicts does not prevent the relationship between members of different ethnic and religious faith and mutual recognition, because in the interior of the national three beyond religious integration mechanism, the historical memory and the imagined community of slush, kinship network and maintaining national consciousness’ s enhancement, the three integration mechanism together constitute the Tacheng Kirgiz 300 years in Mongolian, Kazakh people between melt and is not closed, and not of the Kirgiz ethnic recognition with the core.