Study On The Natural Outlook Of Huang Zhenhua's Manchu Folktales

With the continuous deepening of the protection of intangible cultural heritage in China,a large number of outstanding folk storytellers who have no nationality and no name have stepped out of the field and into the researcher's field of vision.Huang Zhenhua was the subject of this investigation was one of them.In 2009,he was named the representative inheritor of the provincial intangible cultural heritage of the Manchu Folk Stories of national intangible projects.His stories are mainly based on the mountains of Liaodong,where they live,and they narrate around mountains,villages and families,shows the characteristics of the daily production and life of the Manchus in Liaodong.It is full of Manchu ethnic groups and regional characteristics in Liaodong.This article is guided by cognitive anthropology,ecological ethics,and cultural ecology semiotics.Through the analysis of the symbolic process between man and nature in the Manchu folk tales of Huang Zhenhua,combined with the field investigation experience,it reveals the natural view of the people in the Manchu cultural circle of Liaodong that the story reflects.People in the area under the jurisdiction of the Manchu Cultural Circle of Liaodong mainly used fishing and hunting in the early days,and gradually transitioned to farming.People's dependence on nature is relatively high.These factors lead the attitude of people towards nature to be both ethical and symbolic.Through the analysis of the story text,we can see that for the local people,nature is a personified person.Most of the plants and animals in the story can metamorphose into adult form,interact with humans,have their own emotions,and have distinctions between good and evil.This determines that people and nature should respect each other.On the other hand,due to the influence of the Manchu traditional shamanism,many plants and animals have divine nature.However,not all plant gods and animal gods are beneficial to the people.Therefore,there are stories of punishing evil and raising goodness,such as the eagle god and the buddhist immoral contest.What is even more striking is that not only immortals or people with divine power can overcome evil spirits,mortals can also punish evil spirits through the knowledge in their lives,highlighting the wisdom of the Manchu people.Of course,nature is not always divine.Most of them exist in their original appearance.People recognize it from two areas of nature and value,forming a unique cognitive system.This paper is divided into six parts.The introduction part of the paper selects the origin of the selected topic of the thesis and the research methods.At the same time,it combs the relevant research results at home and abroad,and puts forward the innovation and deficiency of the article.The first chapter mainly introduces the living world that Huang Zhenhua tells about the Manchu folk stories,which is interpreted from two perspectives of life and culture,and the overall introduction to cognitive anthropology and the Manchu cognition system.The second chapter looks at the natural cognition of the Manchus of Liaodong from the two fields of nature and value.It mainly focuses on the local people's cognition of the naming and function of plants and animals.The third chapter explains the local people's imagination of mountains,rivers,animals and plants in light of the Manchu belief system and the concept of monsters,and discusses the reason and significance of this singular attribute.The fourth chapter analyzes the hierarchical order in the natural world,and observes the natural "in-between" characteristics,and from the perspective of natural personification,we can see the interaction between man and nature.The conclusions summarize the main points of the paper.The second,third and fourth chapters are the key chapters of this article.