Living Toward Death—A Study On The Funeral Rituals Of Bon Religion In Songpan County

Around the real problem of death,every nation in the world has a funeral ritual about death.As a person,the funeral ritual is an important ritual that ends the world and lives in the world.It occupies an important position in people's daily life.Both death and birth have important practical significance.In the specific field background,the funeral ritual is based on a certain ritual image,and through symbolic performance,constitutes a complete system of meaning,and then cognition and expression,and specification.Songpan County is located in the eastern part of the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau.It is located in the cross zone of important traffic hubs in northwestern Sichuan.The terrain is fluctuating.The mountains,mountains and valleys coexist.It is an important source of rivers,with high altitude and cold and humid.Historically,it is the exchange center of Tang and Fan's economy and culture,and it is also one of the important areas of the tea-and-horse exchange.Nowadays,the Songpan area is home to four main ethnic groups,namely,Tibetan Mastiff and Han Dynasty,and many religions such as benzene,Buddha,Taoism,Hui and Xibi.Culture is here to communicate and develop.The unique natural,geographical,cultural and other environments have given birth to unique funeral ceremonies.Songpan County's teaching parish has held a series of funeral ceremonies to realize the reincarnation process of the deceased from the physical final death to the cultural meaning,from the clean body of the "clean body" ceremony to the soul of the deceased in the "grabbing spirit" ceremony.The bondage,and the "separation" ceremony of the living and the deceased,are all preparing for the final "fire" ceremony.The "fire supply" ceremony is the node for the identity transfer of the deceased.The completion of the "fire supply" ceremony marks the end of the death of the deceased in this sense,and at the same time marks the rebirth of the deceased in the new world.A cultural concept that was born to death.This paper uses the field investigation method,comparative research method,and multidisciplinary research methods such as anthropology,sociology,and religion.Through field research and in-depth interviews,and making full use of various literatures,the funeral ceremony of the Bon Pang Diocese of Songpan County was carried out.Interpretation.The first chapter of this paper explains the background and soil of funeral rites from the geographical and human environment through an overview of the funeral rites in the Bonpan County.The second chapter describes the current funeral customs of the Bon Pang Diocese in Songpan County through a complete record of a funeral.The third chapter analyzes the cultural cognition and expression of rituals and cultural psychology through the interpretation of four "typical" rituals in funeral.The fourth chapter explores the manifestation of benzene,Buddhism,Taoism and other religious cultures in funeral,and analyzes the function and value of local funeral rituals.