Discuss WenShan state FuNing country about Zhuang nationality ancestor worshop action
Abstract: Zhuang is China's southwestern region has a long history and rich cultural heritage of one of the nation. A place for ancestral worship is a human life of faith is universal cultural phenomenon, which stems from the soul of worship in the primitive society totem worship, is the worship of spirits and blood relationship with the product. From historical records and Social Survey, a place for ancestral worship activities such primitive religious concepts and their long-term retention of the Zhuang people in the areas of social, Zhuang become the main part of the original religious beliefs and core of the still as historical sites and mutation The religious memory, many of the Zhuang people's psychological and social and cultural life still has a greater impact.
Different ethnic groups often includes traditional ethnic wealth of the collective memory, for the entire ethnic group, traditional festivals in the collective memory is particularly important. Because the traditional festival of the ethnic composition of the whole celebration, ethnic festivals in the collective memory of the multi - Ways a traditional mechanisms, and determine the festive ceremony in the relevant customs and habits, ethnic groups constitute a solid basis for identity.
The formation of the primeva l worship is the mark of the formation of human deing spiritual world .Nature worship ,spiritual worship and ancestor worship played a leading role in the formation of Chinese nature worship system .with the development of civilization, the replacement of them by worshiping the sky. The earth and the ancestor infuenced directly the construction of Zhuang nationality cultural spirit.
Primitive worship of the human form is a spiritual world of signs. Wenshan Prefecture in Yunnan Province, Funing Xian primitive worship of the formation, nature worship, the soul of worship and ancestor worship occupy a dominant position. With the development of civilization and evolution for the day, and ancestor worship. This has directly affected the Wenshan Zhuang and cultural spirit of the building.
Yunnan Wenshan Zhuang Fu Ningxian civil activities is rich in content, including civil Zhuang ancestors God is the most important object of worship. Zhuang place for ancestral worship activities can be divided into the festival founder, Yuanzu festival, festival Zongzu three types, with a strong utilitarian, sacrosanct, and the characteristics of secrecy. Shouldered the national culture and heritage, provided the spiritual pillar, and maintaining social relations, Shen Zhong Yuan and national recovery polymerization, enrich people's lives, and other social functions.
