“长角苗”时间系统研究之木刻刻

A Study on Time System of Longhorn Hmong

"长角苗"的木刻刻时间系统是一种十分独特的对时间的解释工具,这种解释工具是"长角苗"所特有的,通过木刻刻所揭示的时间序列上鬼的活动规律,"长角苗"民众得以避开鬼的活动,从而获得生活的安全。木刻刻掌握在"长角苗"巫师的手中,他通过木刻刻所显示的鬼活动的规律,指导婚丧嫁娶,以及疏解人在生活中所遇到的各种不顺以及疾病,这套系统塑造了"长角苗"的时间经验以及他们的时间观念,而时间观念是精神观念的基础。通过对木刻刻的了解。

Mukeke is a kind of time system only belong to Longhorn Hmong. As a tool of signify the activities of spirits over days, it make the people of Longhorn Hmong avoid the doom brought by spirits and obtain peaceful lives. As a helmsman of the compass of time, Wizard of Longhorn Hmong is the owner of mukeke and in charge of guiding the Weddings and marriage or other issues though mukeke, even curing disease and elimination of bad luck. At last, this system shapes the experience about time for Longhorn Hmong, with regard to the relationship between sense of time and ideology of the world, it also providing a pathway for the ideology of the world of Longhorn Hmong.