蒙古族阿尔察烟祭习俗探源

On the Origin of Mongolian Smudging Ceremony

蒙古族有焚烧阿尔察枝进行烟祭的传统,焚烧阿尔察枝最初是用来净化环境的日常行为,与阿尔察枝独特的清香有关,后来蒙古族将萨满信仰朴素的善恶观与佛教教义相结合,阿尔察烟祭遂成为化煞驱邪的仪式,并赋予了驱散邪恶的内涵。通过对阿尔察烟祭及其文化内涵的探析,发现烟祭习俗是佛教传入蒙古草原,与蒙古族传统的萨满仪轨融合,形成了新的仪式轨迹。

The Mongolians have the tradition of burning juniper branches for ritual purification.This paper believes that burning juniper branches was originally a daily behavior used by ancestors to purify the environment.It is related to the unique fragrance of juniper branches and has no religious connotation.Later,the Mongolians combined the simple concept of good and evil of Shamanism with Buddhism doctrine,and the smudging ceremony became a ritual to dispel evil spirits,and endowed such ceremony with the connotation of honor and glorify the Buddha,fully demonstrating the historical tradition of the exchange and interaction among different ethnic groups in China.