Wander Around The Marginal Of People, Ghost And God: A Research On Paoting Zhuang Sorceress Of Lingyun, Guangxi

Sorceress is a kind of person who through special skills wandering around Yin Yang, walking at the edge of ghosts and gods, working as a clergy who solves the contradiction among people, ghost and god in Zhuang community, rooting deeply in Zhuang community life.Paper takes the sorceress of Zhuang in Paoting of Lingyun, Guangxi as the investigation object, inspects its success condition, taboo, contract and analyses the path that how they switch smoothly into operation mechanism. From the historical orientation, analysis the Cen Shi how to influence the marginal groups when they were the representative of the forces of the central dynasty, and how the sorceress clings to Cen Shi’s to strengthen her position in the edge of “legitimacy” and “authority”. At the same time, through analyzing the ritual performance by sorceress to instruct how the sorceress builds up a platform that person, ghost and god are in, solve the contradiction between god, people and ghost, make them return to their respective positions, up, middle and down, restore the balance of the order of the universe. On this basis, combine the local Zhuang people’s view of the person, the god and the world, analysis the psychology of local villager’s “Wen Wu” behavior, consider that the purpose of “Wen Wu” behavior and the ritual of witchcraft is setting the contradiction among person, god and ghost, which refracts strongly Zhuang people’s pursuit of harmony cosmic order.