A Practice Of Ancestral Belief Which Is Studying On The Guzang Festival Of Miao Nationality In The Mountain Yueliang Area

The Miao nationality is a nation with a long history.In the beliefs of the Miao people,they believe that everything is spiritual.The concept of "the soul is immortal" makes people maintain a close connection with the ancestors in daily life,and coordinates the relationship between the human and the ancestors through practical means.The Yueliang Mountain area is located in the southern part of Guizhou Province and is one of the main settlements of the Miao nationality in Guizhou Province.Cultural preservation is relatively intact due to blocked traffic.Miao Village,which is under the same "Yeah" statute,has the same customs of Guzang Festival.In the same area,Gao Pai Village and Dang Weng Village in the Yueliang Mountain area have similarities and differences in the causes and processes of the Guzang Festival,but they all reflect the homogenous,equal and sacred concept of the Miao people's life,and the purpose is to maintain life and multiply life.The origin of the Miao people's ancestral beliefs in the Yueliang Mountain area is based on the belief in the soul.The human soul is also a process of continuous growth.From birth to adulthood to the soul of the dead,the soul exists in different forms in the beliefs of the Miao people.The Miao people in the Yueliang Mountain area refer to the souls of their ancestors as "ancestors" and can be subdivided into distant ancestors and near ancestors.A state of restlessness in which the ancestral spirits of the Guzang Festival are not present will often endure the world in a "sickness" manner."Looking at the meter" in daily life is a way of expressing appeals to the ancestors,but only the ancestors invited in the specific time and space of the Guzang Festival can come to accept the sacrifices of the world,thus avoidingsuffering.In the Miao nationality Guzang Festival in the Yueliang Mountain area,the drum master is in the process of communication between the human and the ancestral spirit,and is a folk belief practitioner who carries out the spirit possession in the ceremony of communication and communication between the human gods.The Guzang Festival can be expressed as "pre-threshold(daily state)-threshold period(ritual state)-post-threshold(daily state)" three stages.During the threshold period of the Guzang Festival,the status of the ancestral spirit changed,and the ancestors changed into distant ancestors.The ritual passers obtained a psychological balance in the ritual and returned to daily life with a new psychological state.The Guzang Festival shows the social network of the Miao people in the Yueliang Mountain area.Through the gift and belief to maintain each other's emotions and relationships,in the practice of faith,the inter-ethnic relationship of blood is more prominent and strengthened.