中国西南的仡佬族及其宗教

Gelao People in the Southwest China and Their Religion

仡佬族是先秦时期西南夜郎国的土著居民,是西南地区有着悠久文化传统的族群。西南仡佬族的宗教信仰,蕴含着原始宗教图腾崇拜、祖先崇拜、自然崇拜的特质,原始宗教信仰在仡佬人中有着深厚的社会积淀。通过仡佬族传统宗教神灵信仰与祭祀仪式的考察,认为仡佬族宗教具有多元宗教文化的特征,仡佬族传统宗教受道教的浸润影响,是历史上道教在西南少数民族地区传播所致,是华夏文化在多元一体的中国社会辐射的结果。

Gelao was aboriginal people of Southwest Yelang in the pre Qin period,an ethnic group with long cultural tradition in the southwest region. Gelao＇ s religion beliefs had attributes of totem worship, ancestor worship and nature worship of primitive religion. The primitive religion beliefs had profound social heritage in the Gelao＇s society. Through the investigation of Gelao people＇ s traditional religious belief in the gods and sacrificial rites, this paper infers that Gelao people＇ s religion had multi-religious cultural characteristics and was influenced by Daoism, which were due to the propagation of Daoism in southwest minority regions in history and the radiation of Chinese culture in the pluralistic and integrative Chinese society.